http://thomashastings.com A Life Spent With Media Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:05:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tomorrow is November 4th! Be sure to do your part and vote! I could careless who you vote for but its your right to vote, its what has set our country apart for so long. http://thomashastings.com/2008/11/03/vote/ http://thomashastings.com/2008/10/11/how-will-our-generation-handle-a-great-depression/ The race for the cure today was intense! A friend and I got up at the break of dawn to run a 5k at Garden of the Gods w/ literally hundreds of other people who either ran or walked for a cure to breast cancer. 75% of the profits made go to ... http://thomashastings.com/2008/09/07/race-for-the-cure-08/ GeoEye is preparing to launch their newest geospatial satellite. The satellite was originally scheduled to launch August 22nd but has been rescheduled to September fourth from Vandenberg AFB, CA. (Too bad I leave Vandenberg a couple of days before its launched but you can be sure that I will be watching the ... http://thomashastings.com/2008/08/09/geoeye-launch/ Happy belated birthday to NASA who turned 50 on July 29. NASA has launched a 50th anniversary website which reflects back on the last 50 years of incredible advancements not just in the fields of technology and engineering but also in innovation and discovery. I look forward to the ... http://thomashastings.com/2008/08/03/nasa-turns-50/ While reading Digg today, I ran across an interesting link to an article posted on the BBC website about how web users are skipping all the formalities so to speak and going right for the information they want. Users are going right for search engines and skipping home pages. You ... http://thomashastings.com/2008/05/24/web-users-getting-more-selfish/ Today, I was reading through a web developer forum and I ran across a noobie web designer asking for help with one of her school projects. She was looking for a place to find a cheat sheet. (It was apparent from how she asked her question that she didn't know ... http://thomashastings.com/2008/05/20/can-a-developer-be-a-good-designer/ A few days ago I was reading through the Invisible Children blog and I stumbled across The Biggest Online Dance Battle. Invisible Children has decided to support the Adam / Chu Dance Crew (ACDC) by selling their t-shirts which are sold right out of the Invisible Children store. By ... http://thomashastings.com/2008/05/17/adam-chu-dance-crew/ Today, my company (Lifespent Media), switched to a new project management tool called Basecamp. Although this is not my first time using it, I am still impressed. I used Basecamp while I was working with Design is Fuel on one of their projects. I will admit its hard trying to ... http://thomashastings.com/2008/05/12/project-management-with-basecamp/ After literally years of contemplation I decided (more like talked my self into) it was time to buy a Mac. Thats right, I gave in and purchased an iMac and wow... am glad I decided too. The responsiveness, tools, eye candy, and usability to name a few are reasons enough for me to have ... http://thomashastings.com/2008/05/09/life-with-a-mac/