Archive for the ‘Work’ Category
Of disability, Web design, and opportunity
10.13.09 at 3:21 pm by Blake
Greetings stairhaters. A couple of posts back, I gave you a rather vague idea of what I was planning to get myself into professionally.
First, I’m laying the groundwork for forming an LLC through which I will do professional Web design work. Second, in order to gain experience and help out the community which has helped [...]
The end of an era
9.6.09 at 9:11 pm by Blake
After twenty-four years of life, eighteen years of education, and one summer of unemployment, the result is an underwhelming product: an MBA who loves a field for which he did not go to school, has been thrown into a world of economic hardship, and is confined to a state in which ten percent of people [...]
Meet Sue
7.18.09 at 9:31 pm by Blake
The following is a video short I created for the What Can YOU Do? Video Contest hosted by the Campaign for Disability Employment. The goal was to make a 60-second video that is related to people with disabilities and employment. The contest is over now, but a winner has not yet been announced. This was [...]
Disabilism
6.9.09 at 7:37 pm by Blake
The following was taken by a “professional” photographer. Click to see full-size.
Handwriting recognition with Bamboo Fun
5.28.09 at 9:56 pm by Blake
Fellow stair-haters, this is an update to my last post. It’s a screencast about how to use the Bamboo Fun tablet for handwriting recognition. I forgot to mention this in the video, but the Bamboo Fun tablet can be used on Windows or Mac.
If you can’t view the video, or you just want to know [...]
A new toy
5.26.09 at 8:26 pm by Blake
It’s been a strange summer. The last two weeks of school went by in a hurried flash. I spent quite a few long nights in the business college while finishing up a project. Then suddenly, six years of school were over. I enjoyed the beginning of the summer as I was able to sleep late [...]
Blah
2.14.09 at 10:04 pm by Blake
Image via Wikipedia
After a not all that exciting week, my long-awaited software arrived yesterday. I’ve been playing around with MacSpeech Dictate, which is working better than I expected, and I’m glad to get my hands on the full version of KeyStrokes. Transitioning to keyboard-less computer use has not been easy so far. With KeyStrokes, the [...]
What to do in May?
2.1.09 at 8:47 pm by Blake
Image by T Hall via Flickr
This semester is my last. If I can get through my last seven hours, I will be graduating with an MBA in May. The choice is where I want to go after that. As it stands now, I see that I have two options. The first is to go back [...]
I’m droppin’ classes like they hot
9.16.08 at 10:33 pm by Blake
I was doing a decent job of keeping up with my writing schedule (okay, I was a little off) until about two weeks ago, when I got bombarded with school. And I mean bombarded. Due dates and deadlines came at me like linebackers after a quarterback. My email inbox began to overflow. My extra-curricular involvement [...]
Does the system want me on or off?
6.23.08 at 5:29 pm by Blake
I’m nearing my last year of school. This time next year, I hope to be employed. The taxpayers of Mississippi and the nation have helped me with the cost of attendants and the cost of my education. I am grateful, and I am ready to get a job and put back into the system. That’s [...]