While there is no statistical evidence that zombie outbreaks increase around Halloween, you can never be too careful. The following are some links and resources to get you prepared for the season.

Emergency Zombie Defense Station

You can never be too prepared. Learn how to build this important toolkit. Read more here.

The Zombie Handbook By Max Brooks

“The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.” from Amazon

Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack

1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don’t need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

Video after the break.

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“In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.”

This is an exhaustive survey of who makes websites, including Project Managers, Webmasters, Developers and Creative Directors .

Some interesting results:

• 72.5% have their own blog.
• 46.5% had a field of study unrelated to current web work.
• 32.2% have only been in their current job 1 year or less.
• Project Managers had the highest job satisfaction (51.6%), Webmasters, lowest (40.3%)

View results here http://www.alistapart.com/articles/2007surveyresults

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I wanted to thank the nice people at AT&T and their PR firm for sending me both an iPhone and a BlackBerry 8820 to test out. Currently, I am putting the two phones through their paces and I promise a full report on the pro and cons of both phones soon. They are giving my Nokia N70 a run for the money but I have not made up my mind yet. Stay tuned…

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We have launched the new version of the web site for the Small Business Technology Development Center in Wilmington, NC.. (www.csb.uncw.edu/sbtdc/)

My goals in updating the site were as follows:

• Streamline the navigation and make content easier to find
• Build the site with current web standards and ensure ADA compliance
• Update content on the site to reflect new staff and documents.

Overall the site is a huge improvement over the previous version and can now be maintained by SBTDC administrative staff via Macromedia Contribute.

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The name says it all. This has got to be one of the best viral ad campaigns out there. I may just have to buy on of their blenders.

It amazes me that the phone continued to work for as long as it did during the blend.

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People love Power Point, I even like to use, but there are a lot of things you can do wrong. Comedian Don McMillian hits on most of them.

Life After Death by PowerPoint

*This is safe for work and has no improper language.

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If you are interested in business topics such as marketing, leadership, business development, you should check out the Harvard Business Review “Ideacast.” It is a weekly podcast on a range of topics. Last week’s discussion of public relations gave a lot of valuable insight into the value of good PR. There were some practical tips on how to position your organization in such a way to attract the press when they need an expert for a topic.

Some of the past topics have included, What is Wikinomics?, Breakthrough Ideas of 2007, and Viral marketing. Each episode is free and only 10 to 15 minutes long. This is some great stuff.

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