Archive for April, 2009

Organize Your Gmail – A Quick Visual Tip

April 26th, 2009 by Brad Harbach   3 Comments »

Does your Gmail Inbox contain every one of the thousands of emails you have ever received?  Do you find that important emails that need action taken on them get lost between your normal email clutter? Maintaining all of your old emails in the Gmail Inbox can be a mess.  In three short minutes I’ll show you [...]

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US Banks Clear Stress Test With No Problem

April 25th, 2009 by Will Crowthers   waiting for comments...

After reading an article on the recent stress test US banks were put through I have that uncertain feeling that settles at the bottom of your stomach.  You know the one you get where you think you are about to be in big trouble, but you’re really not sure.  Point being, the article doesn’t give [...]

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High-speed Trains Finally Coming to the US?

April 24th, 2009 by Will Crowthers   2 Comments »

$13 Billion is said to be going towards building a high-speed US passenger railroad system over the next 5 years.  This is phenomenal and I am in full support, here are a few good reasons from the New York Times article: “With clogged highways and overburdened airports, economic growth is suffering, Mr. Obama said” “What [...]

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College Debt Sucks – Money should be a factor when deciding where to attend

April 23rd, 2009 by Brad Harbach   4 Comments »

A good friend of mine is heading off to school this fall (lucky him) to start his freshman year but has yet to make a final decision on which school to attend.  I wrote him an email Tuesday morning sharing my thoughts on choosing schools and I thought it made sense to post it to [...]

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The Matthew Effect – Engineering For Success

April 22nd, 2009 by Colin Gillens   waiting for comments...

The “American Dream” gained formal notoriety less than 80 years ago when James Truslow Adams wrote, on the American Dream, in his 1931 book Epic of America It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able [...]

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