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Devil dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the face of Modern War

February 25th, 2010

Generation Kill is one of those shows you watch and it all just clicks into place. Watching it makes you understand something that you never really understood from the start. That something? The Iraq War.

I never really understood why we went to war with Iraq other than it was posturing and a relentless pursuit and being in control of Oil. I mean the actual ‘War’ was over within a couple of months. What we have now is a battle against extremist terrorists who are using Iraq as their base to fight the Western World. This is a direct result of our actions in Iraq. That’s what I thought anyway.

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Tags: Brad Colbert, David Simon, Ed Burns, Generation Kill, Harold Trombley, HBO, Modern Warfare, Ray Person, Recon Marines, The Wire, Walt Hasser
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Haiti’s lost children

February 1st, 2010

Every day children hide in the slums of Haiti’s Port Au Prince. They are hiding from gangs who take them as part of a huge child trafficking industry that is sweeping across the country. This problem has become even worse as the Earthquake that hit the country has left thousands of children without a home or a family. They are wandering the street and have become easy pickings for this gang.

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Tags: Angela Catlin, Child Trafficking, Haiti, Haiti Disaster, Religous Charity, The New Life Refuge, Unicef
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Great new article in .net magazine

January 29th, 2010

Just received the most recent copy of .net magazine through the door and after reading it I felt very happy with myself. Why you ask?

Well many of the articles in the magazine were commenting on design processes and tools that I use on a regular basis on current projects. These included JQuery and Wordpress. This comforts me as it means I am keeping up to date with current web trends and thus keeping my clients happy by delivering up to date websites.

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Tags: .net magazine, content management system, HTML, Jquery, wordpress
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Media Mentor goes live

January 28th, 2010

This was a recent ‘in house’ project where we re-designed the training arm of the companies website. The old site was rather cluttered and we wanted to develop something that was clean and fresh. We also wanted the user to be able to find information on the site quickly and easily.

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Tags: CSS, Jquery, Media Mentor, media training, re-design, website
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Drumming to a different beat

January 25th, 2010

I usually don’t listen to NME. I find the magazine to be flawed in the way it promotes new bands. It goes more on the basis of image than actual musical ability. See The Twang, The Vines and throw into the mix The Thrills. All bands hailed by NME as the next big thing, all failed miserably.

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Tags: Jason Peirce, New York, NME, The Drums, The Smiths, The Wake
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