Time to Tighten Our Belts

The market correction for the over indulgence of our country is finally catching-up with us and it’s going to smack a good bit for a while. We have been living on borrowed time with a false sense of prosperity for too long. Time to pay the piper and it is going to cost us big […]

Flexible and Relevant

I must be a glutten for punishment. I’ve always said that most techies are closet masochists. In truth though, I love the chase, the challenge of the learning curve. It seems that every six months or so I climb yet another hill with every project requiring skills that I don’t presently posses.
Four months into an […]

Work Like Water

In the quiet moments early in the morning I sometimes wax philosophical in pursuit of understanding my day-to-day existence. What is it that I really am doing? What difference does pushing 0’s and 1’s around? To the degree that I am successful, what makes my work stand apart from another? Is it creative ingenuity to […]

I Don’t Work for a Living

Do you work for a living? You know it can kill you don’t you? Maybe quitting is a good idea.  Stress is a major killer in its many forms and a job is a sure fire way to end your life early.
As for me, yeah I have a long-term arrangement with a company to […]

Like Fine Wine

A life well lived, which I hope mine continues to be, is like a bottle of fine wine. It really does get better with age.
Yesterday, I sat down and updated my resume and posted it to Portfolio. It’s something I try to do every year or so as I figure it’s just a good idea. […]

Binary Conversion for Children

This evening for fun, I taught my nine and 11 year-old girls how to convert binary numbers to decimal and back to binary. They got the concept in about 20 minutes which shows what a little attention from a parent and enthusiasm of a youngster can do. It was fun to watch my oldest going […]

Occam’s Razor

Technology can seem so complex, but in truth the greatest challenge is to not over complicate the matter. Programming clean code, designing a sharp website, presenting a succinct marketing message can be accomplished with relatively straight forward creative development. Yes, that’s the challenge. The essentials, the bear necessities…William of Occam in the 14th century said […]

 

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