Time to harness your abilities in photoshop to develop magnificent pieces of art. For this assignment you will be working with an absolutely beautiful subject in photography, yourselves. In this project you wil be producing your very own modelling head shots. You can use this opportunity to accent your best physical features, or create a [...]

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I hate to discriminate against all forms of communication but due to a high number of blog sign ups and comments that are completely bogus, I had to make MrVaughan.com an exclusive site for humans only, my appologies to all the computers bots, programs, and aliens out there who were accessing my site quite frequently however the amount [...]

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Despite my many efforts to educate students on respectfull and appropriate ways of blogging and what can and can’t be put online it continues to be a reaccurring problem. I decided to make a video post concerning the issue.
 

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Well I finally got the videos to embed properly on this site, it was fine for embedding youtube videos before but now I have it working so you can embed any video directly into your page. After doing all this I was able to make a tutorial on how to create an video animation out [...]

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In online communities there are many unexplained customs that are just part of being a good person. Particularly in the blogging and social networking communities, there are many unwritten rules of the Internet. Well I wrote some down.

If someone writes an interesting, fun, or educational blog post that you enjoyed take the time to post a [...]

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Finally!!!!!!!!!!!! After months of my page appearing differently in firefox and Internet explorer, I’ve finally been able to fix the issue of the page appearing on the left in firefox but in the middle in IE. Apparently Firefox handles CSS (Casscading Style Sheets) differently from IE and there is a little known hack that fixes [...]

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So for the current computer assignment my students are working on they have to research all the parts of a computer and then build their computer and shop around for various components and prices.
In the process one of my students was looking for “cool computer mice”. What they found was quite interesting to say the [...]

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So it hasn’t even been a week already, and am I starting to miss school, not that I miss working and all, its just that I wake up in the mornings and wonder how on earth I am going to fill my day.
So I’ve come with a few ideas, check back here often to see [...]

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Most recent hacking attempt is came from Amsterdam, it seems they were somehow able to hack my ftp access to my account. I have since rechanged all passwords assosiated with my site and blocked IP, from the range where the instigating site originate. So if your checking back to hack my site, feel free to [...]

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Thanks to the hacker that pointed out some of the security holes with my system. I have since patched them up and cleaned up my site.  Apparently a computer in Russia was adding malicious code to the bottom of all of my index pages redirecting them to some ad sites.
This resulted in a number of [...]

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