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I Madonnari 2012, Santa Barbara, California

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The Intervals Web design and development team likes to do more than just tweak pixels and grind out code. We love us our extra curriculars, especially when we can venture out into our community sharing our love of tech and the arts. Our company, Pelago, has had the privilege of participating in the annual I Madonnari […]

SXSW Interactive 2012 Team Building Competition
The Lego Mindstorms Rumble at Google Village

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South by Southwest Interactive, popularly known as SXSWi, is an annual mind-warping interactive festival held in Austin, Texas. For five days, an overwhelming number of web designers, developers, marketers, and more, descend upon the convention center and surrounding environs to attend panels, network, and enjoy great food and drink. It’s almost guaranteed to be a […]

Santa Barbara I Madonnari 2010 ~ Pelago

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This year’s 8'x8' square at the Santa Barbara I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival, sponsored by Pelago, paid tribute to Charles Sheeler. Our rendering of Classic Landscape, 1931, was chalked by myself, Thomas Hashberger and Lloyd Johnsen. The chalk drawing will be on display at the Santa Barbara Mission for the next few weeks, so […]

Looking Back on the Last Two Decades of the Internet

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We are quickly coming to the close of a decade. One that began with the great Y2K scare and ends with yet another end-of-the-world doomsday prediction, 2012. Some things never change. But that isn’t the point of this blog post. We’ve just ended two decades of widespread public Internet usage. The Internet is one area […]

The great office shuffle of ’08

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This week we shuffled all of our desks around and moved a few truckloads of unused stuff into storage. Our only casualties were one smashed thumb, a severed USB cable, and a smashed video tape (the circumstances surrounding the fate of the video tape are still under investigation). Meanwhile, here are some fresh new pics […]

The 80-20 Rule and Client Drama

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The 80-20 Rule, AKA the Pareto Principle, states that “for many events, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.” This can be observed in any volunteer organization, for example, a church, where 20% of the people do 80% of the work. In our eight-plus years of doing web development at Pelago, we […]