Silicon Palms

Month: November 2007

  • Success Strategy

    Here’s some words of wisdom from Alexander Graham Bell, a renowned scientist and inventor. In 1876, at the age of 29, he invented the telephone.

    “The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion… It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider – and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation – persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”

    Alexander Graham Bell

  • Conflict of Conscience

    I hand-coded and published my first HTML web page in 1993, ever since then my thinking about what I should be doing with my web-publishing passion, has vacillated between projects for helping disadvantage children in third-world countries, or providing information and services to help wealthy North Americans invest offshore.

    Living in South Florida at that time, every day we watched images, or in one case I eye-witnessed, Haitian families coming ashore in home-made rafts because they were so desperate to escape the poverty of their Island Nation. It prompted me to start-up “PC on Earth” a non-profit organization that would find ways to get information technology to schools in the Caribbean.

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  • Reefer Poker Logo

    reeferpoker-logo.pngIt all starts with a good name and this one rocks! because of it’s eccentricities and enhanced viral-factor, since it combines 2 illegal activities into 1 name, both of those activities are adored by Pop culture, Gen-X and the masses, both will thrive despite prohibition.

    The color scheme discreetly incorporates the Rasta colors of red, yellow and green, the font is called “Keep on Truckin”.