Max Beatty

Ear­lier this week some of the guys and I played some poker, and I ended up win­ning which made me want to try my luck online. My tweets about play­ing poker prompted another twit­terer to let me know about the Twit­ter Poker Tour which meets on Pok­er­Stars and Full Tilt Poker for tour­na­ments. Pok­er­Stars didn’t […]

I lost my King­Max 8GB USB drive and before I real­ized it a stranger had sent me a Face­book mes­sage want­ing to return it to me. This is the kind of story most peo­ple think can only hap­pen in a small town or on a small cam­pus, but really it could hap­pen in any metropolitan […]

I hate to hang on Mark’s every word, but some­thing he said is STILL both­er­ing me. Since the class videos still aren’t up (cap­stone team or Can­taloupe respon­si­ble?), I’ll try my best to para­phrase what Mark said dur­ing class: Open Source just isn’t prof­itable. I don’t like it. You’re not going to find a lot of […]

What isn’t web art? Any­thing your browser ren­ders is web art in my opin­ion. From the CSS+XHTML com­pli­ant lay­out, to the inter­ac­tive Flash port­fo­lio, to the fav­i­con that brands every domain. It’s all web art. Web design is web art. The effec­tive com­bi­na­tion of typog­ra­phy, col­ors, and images rolled into one usable inter­face dis­play­ing information […]

I was trolling OneS­tart Clas­si­fieds a cou­ple weeks ago look­ing for cheap deals on stuff I didn’t need and see­ing if there were any job post­ings for some quick, easy money. I found a job enti­tled “Infor­mat­ics Stu­dent” with this descrip­tion: We are look­ing for a cer­ti­fied IT per­son pre­ferrably a stu­dent in the Informatics […]