TOUCHING BASE

by Minh D. Tran


Wow! It's been a long time since I last shared my thoughts with my readers. There's been alot of happenings in my life during the past 3 months.

First, in October, I moved back to Albuquerque, NM, where I was raised. I came here with a sales position for a web designing company from Santa Fe, NM. However, after settling in and stabilizing my life in Albuquerque, I discovered a new position that is more suitable for me at STC.UNM, and am liking it very much. Plus, it's a company in Albuquerque, so the drive is much shorter.

Second, in December, after a whole year of planning, I was finally wedded to my beautiful wife. The wedding took place in San Diego, CA with 350+ guests. Pictures to come soon! It was a beautiful day and there's no word that can describe it so I will let you see for yourself when I get a chance to post the pictures.

We enjoyed our honeymoon in romantic Italy. We visited Rome, Assisi, Venice, Verona, Florence, Pisa, Sorrento, Amalfi Coast, Isles of Capri, and Pompeii. Wow, took me two full breaths to say all that. It was a magical and romantic honeymoon. Again, pictures to come.

THE 2006 W³ AWARDS

THE 2006 W3 AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED GOLD, SILVER, AND BEST IN SHOW HONOREES UNVEILED

Sony Pictures Imageworks, VML Inc, and Worktank among Best in Show Winners

Los Angeles, CA - (October 16, 2006) - The Winners of The 2006 W3 Awards have been announced by the International Academy of the Visual Arts today. Receiving over 2,300 entries, The W3 Awards honors outstanding websites, web marketing, and web advertising created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers, and creators worldwide. Please visit www.w3award.com for a complete list of W3 Award Winners. The W3 Awards is sanctioned and judged by The International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, interactive, advertising, and marketing firms. IAVA members include executives from organizations such as Alloy, BRANDWEEK, Coach, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, HBO, iNDELIBLE, Monster.com, MTV, Omnicom, Polo Ralph Lauren, Refinery, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Victoria's Secret, Wired, Yahoo!, and many others. For more info, and a full member roster, please visit www.iavisarts.org.

"We were amazed at the caliber and quality of work we received this year. Our winners continue to push the envelope of internet creativity and web design, and it is gratifying to see such great work from the smallest agencies to the biggest firms" said Linda Day, the director of the IAVA. "On behalf of the over 200 members of The International Academy of the Visual Arts, we are honored to recognize our winners as they continue to set a high standard of excellence for Web development."

A complete list of winners can be found on the W3 Awards Web site at www.w3award.com.

Sponsors and partners of the W3 Awards and include The Creative Group, Adweek Magazines, and the American Marketing Association.

The W³ Awards honors creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning web sites and marketing programs. Simply put, the W³ is the first major web competition to be accessible to the biggest agencies, the smallest firms, and everyone in between. Small firms are as likely to win as Fortune 500 companies and international agencies.

The W3 Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. Please visit www.iavisarts.org for a full member list and additional information.

For more information about the W3 Awards, please visit www.w3award.com, or email The W3 Awards at info@w3award.com or call (606) 326-9326 .
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

BAD GOOGLE, I AM DISAPPOINTED

Google's very own email service, GMail, built on the idea that "you should never have to delete any mail and you should always be able to find the messages you want."

Google is known to have unlimited storage space for your emails and encourages everyone to not delete any emails so that with their powerful search tools, you can find any message that has ever been written to you or by you. Sounds like a good deal?

Here's the catch...

Google admits that any deleted messages from your email will remain on their system, and may be accessible internally at Google, for an indefinite period of time. With that being said, is it possible that the contents in our email messages be searchable by the public? I mean, c'mon, all secrets will somehow be uncovered, and therefore, internally accessible information may one day be leaked to the public.

Let's say, one day you decided to email your friend some private information (credit card numbers, social security numbers, confidential information on your personal life, or whatever it is you did last summer, etc.), someone may someday be bored and submit a search and tah-dah, all your information is shown.

Makes you want to go back to Yahoo! Mail.