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Recent Posts
- What’s Your Dog’s Life Worth To You?
- Tech Pivots
- We’re having a baby!
- LivingSocial Deal To Kill
- Hey Kids! Learn To Program!
- Foursquare Addiction – 3 Steps To Recovery
- Whit Benson
- The Rise of HTML5 and JavaScript
- Cobb County Animal Control Is Starving Dogs
- Davis Cosey’s Call To Action For Georgia’s Animal Advocates
- Reality Check To Animal Rescuers
- Cameron on the Riots
- 1st Wedding Picture – Joanne & Chris on Friday, May 20, 2011
- Startup Ideas & Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
- Animal Protection Steering Committee Kick-Off
- Gary Black was elected Georgia’s next Commissioner of Agriculture on Tuesday!
- Please VOTE for Gary Black for Georgia’s Commissioner of Agriculture.
- Leadership Series: Virtue
- Leadership Series: Introduction
- The Adventures of Lexie & Chris – Part 3
- The Adventures of Lexie & Chris – Part 2
- The Adventures of Lexie & Chris – Part 1
- Whit Benson
Author Archives: Chris
What’s Your Dog’s Life Worth To You?
I received this forwarded email message tonight, and responded directly to the original sender. You may find my response harsh – especially if you’re not an animal lover – but the person in question had indicated a willingness to euthanize … Continue reading
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Tech Pivots
The world of technology development is constantly changing, and the smart technologists and smart companies are changing with it. It’s just the way it is. The need to constantly learn new stuff is baked into the process. Do it or … Continue reading
We’re having a baby!
This is Baby Benson. Jo and I learned she was pregnant on the evening of Thursday, October 6, 2011. She is 13 weeks into the pregnancy, and is completing the 1st trimester. We learned of Jo’s pregnancy the very evening … Continue reading
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LivingSocial Deal To Kill
I’ve been a member of LivingSocial for over a year, and have purchased 5 deals from them during that time. I particularly liked them because they built their business on my preferred development platform – Ruby on Rails – just like innovators Twitter … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure & Outdoors, Animal, Animal Protection, Ruby & Rails
Tagged animal welfare, deer, hunting, livingsocial
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Hey Kids! Learn To Program!
Programming is creative expression. It enables you to communicate your ideas to others – giving those ideas life by wrapping them into a digital user experience that can be tried and shared. Programming endows your creativity with value. An idea … Continue reading
Posted in Apple iOS, HTML5 & JavaScript, Ruby & Rails
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Foursquare Addiction – 3 Steps To Recovery
I am a recovering Foursquare addict. For a couple of years, I ”checked in” everywhere I went, attempting to become Mayor of each new location, or defending my own existing Mayorships. It was a game – much like a video game … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Social Media
Tagged addiction, foursquare, Social Media, social networking
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Whit Benson
This is the speech / eulogy I gave one week ago today in honor of my father Whit Benson at his memorial service on Wednesday, October 12, 2011. He had died a few days earlier on Saturday, October 8, 2011. … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure & Outdoors, Personal Life
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The Rise of HTML5 and JavaScript
HTML5 and JavaScript are on the rise, and they’re becoming the defacto standards for ‘everything Internet’ much faster than previously expected. JavaScript has often been described as “assembly language for the Web“, since it’s “as low-level as a web programming … Continue reading
Cobb County Animal Control Is Starving Dogs
This is Kimi. Her name was Maggie until my wife Joanne and I rescued her yesterday (on September 25, 2011) from Cobb County Animal Control (aka Auschwitz For Dogs). She is nearly dead from starvation. This is how Maggie (now Kimi) … Continue reading
Posted in Animal, Animal Protection
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Davis Cosey’s Call To Action For Georgia’s Animal Advocates
My good friend Davis Cosey serves with me on the Georgia Department of Agriculture‘s Companion Animal Advisory Board. He is an amazing mentor to me, and is Georgia’s unknown secret weapon in the ongoing fight to save and improve the … Continue reading
Posted in Animal, Animal Protection, Leadership, Strategy
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