Is this thing on? Attention, your attention please… The database that previously occupied this space is dead. I had been using Movable Type to run this section of the site. However, I’m not happy with the direction that that bit of software is going. I pulled the plug on the MT site a few weeks […]
Ok, so I killed the old blog in this space. I’m switching to WordPress and will be posting again shortly…
As a child, my father would firmly chide if I would bring him the wrong tool. ‘The right tool for the right job’ he would say. Eventually, I learned my crescents and my box ends from my pipe wrenches and my dykes. Now days, my tool belt is more virtual, and the laundry list of […]
Over the years the interface from which we as humans harness the power of the microprocessor has evolved pretty steadily. From punch card to graphical user interface the progression has gone pretty smoothly, all things considered. Over the years we’ve started to not only access these chips locally, but also network the little suckers together. […]
Mod-rewrites are evil. Not in the “I am your FAAATHER” sort of way, but in the ‘umm, what the hell am I doing?’ sorta way. Nobody understands this stuff. Just hope you get lucky and have a web technology integrator who knows what you are trying to do. However, if you dare to venture into […]
We’ve all been there, you spend a certain amount of time working on a specific project or for a specific company and you fall victim to company speak. Your mind becomes so saturated with the marketing jargon that you begin to forget that other people, people outside the company, have a difficult time understanding what […]
You’ve seen the link before… You’re checking out an interesting post on Slashdot and you want to read the full article. But you know that clicking that link will require a soul sucking registration that will take hours with many emails back and forth and at least two trips to the doctor for the requisite […]
This link is funny. Amazon is an incredible resource. There’s no doubt that they’ve learned well the lessons in the Cluetrain. That being said, it seems that the openness of their operation might need a little tweaking. It seems image manipulation is not limited to Photoshop these days. A whole new subgenera of URL hacking […]
The world is changing very quickly. It is difficult to keep up. But it always has been so. What you need is a roadmap, a way to define where you are and where you’re to go next. ChangeThis comes in much like the Cluetrain Manifesto to do just that. In a creative conversation the rules […]
My name is R. Josh Quarles