It is almost frightening how this infographic turned out…
Sorry for making you click more to view, the full size image destroys the blog.
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I have been searching for Northern Virginia technology meet-ups and events for sometime now (admittedly only for a brief moment from time to time). Yesterday a friend of mine, Jonathon Perrelli, had mentioned a meeting he had with a local entrepreneur and angel investor.
Naturally I went to the Google gods and searched to learn more.
After reading briefly about this person (who I won’t name because I don’t know them) I followed the links to Twitter, from there I noticed another local techie. Curious, I viewed their profile and behold — the DC area tech meet-up mother load! Granted I live in Northern Virginia and would prefer something more local, but we’ll take what we can get. See the links below for DC area tech meet-up events and festivals:
http://digitalcapitalweek.org/
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An email has been floating around the internet for years saying Bill Gates presented the aforementioned rules to a group of High School students. Unfortunately for the email creators Bill Gates did not make these eleven rules, an educator by the name of Charles Sykes did in his book “Dumbing Down our Kids”.
Nevertheless, these rules are very true and worth mentioning here.
RULE 1
Life is not fair – get used to it.
RULE 2
The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
RULE 3
You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice president with car phone, until you earn both.
RULE 4
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
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Gerber has an online baby photo competition with a grand prize of $25,000 for college tuition. Last month my wife submitted our 11 month old daughter’s picture (Genevieve).
Yesterday I visited the Gerber Generations site to locate Genevieve’s photo. To my surprise there are THOUSANDS of baby photos. ( I should have known )
There are many cute pictures, you could easily spend all day trying to review them. Rather than spending all that time I would like to help you by providing a link to the cutest, Genevieve. Okay, I may be a little bias. 
If you read this, and have 20 seconds to spare (really, it does not take long) please go here http://bit.ly/genevievejohnston and vote for Genevieve. They require your email address to verify and they will send a verification email. Please make sure you click on the link in that email otherwise your vote does not count.
Thank you for your help!!
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In May of 2010 I developed a small Joomla v1.5 module that would display a FormSpring box allowing visitors to ask questions directly from your website. You can now download the module here.
Once the module is installed you need to first edit the module and provide your FormSpring user name then select enable and save. Simple and effective.
If you like the module please rate and comment on the JED.
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Today I launched a new version of www.neighborhoodrecovery.org. Neighborhood Recovery is a company I founded that provides investors with tax credits in exchange for equity investment into a financing entity. The entity in-turn makes loans or equity investments in projects located in low- to- moderate income communities. Check it out and let me know what you think.
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