Charlotte NC Web Design, Development - Glowview Blog » online http://blog.glowview.com Words from a random Charlotte web developer Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:49:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Virtual Team Building Event with Left 4 Dead http://blog.glowview.com/2009/03/25/virtual-team-building-event-with-left-4-dead/ http://blog.glowview.com/2009/03/25/virtual-team-building-event-with-left-4-dead/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:57:38 +0000 Justin http://blog.glowview.com/?p=214 Recently, I was lucky enough to take part in an innovative office team building event at Sofla Web Studio. The event took place on Friday the 13th and featured an appropriate zombie theme. We utilized a popular online cooperative team game called Left 4 Dead for the exercise. Working together and planning strategies to blast our way through hordes of zombies… it doesn’t get any better than that!

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Read details and see photos & video of the event at the Sofla Web Studio Blog.

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Small is like a catch all for a large percentage of the shipments from a thumbdrive to a hard drive, starting with something like a 14×12x6 box, and moving up from there.

Eraser from Staples

Eraser from Staples

This certainly may reduce costs and makes it much easier to automate, but when I receive an 1 1/2″ eraser in a cardboard box 1000 times it’s size, I feel sick to my stomach. I am not a “tree-hugger” but this has to bother anyone who cares about the environment even a little bit. There is no reason that they could not have shipped the eraser in a small envelope. There are many first-hand examples of this on the web, but nothing has changed and I don’t think these retailers have answered to this.

Makes me think about boycotting online retailers… but they are the lesser of two evils. Paying 20% more than online prices for a gadget while having a BestBuy rep try to convince me why I need $85 HDMI cables, is worse than this.

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