How the Suburbs Killed the Amiga Computer

August 9, 2010

This post is about the how the suburban mediocrity broke my heart, ruined a computer platform, and the game of catch-up I’ve determined to play. I barely escaped the suburban trap, thanks to the intervention of a friend who followed his dream to NY, and opened the door for me. I was uniquely prepared for [...]

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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it

May 7, 2010

I am juggling a lot. I am an SEO Director of Strategy, and interact with a variety of Fortune 500-type clients on weekly phone-calls, and have responsibility for the overall success of the engagements. I am also the creator and sysadmin of a Web 2.0 application named HitTail, which is a tracking system like Google [...]

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iPad Haters Love an Oscar Madison-style Mess

April 6, 2010

Here’s the reason haters hate the iPad: technology people like complexity. Complexity perpetuates a technocracy that puts them at the top, with everyone else reliant on them portioning out support and advice. Brittle systems like Windows play perfectly well into this psychology, breeding powerful IT-departments and consulting services, perpetuating the status quo. The idea of [...]

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The iPad is Magical, and I Think Lessons Learned from Commodore are Why

April 5, 2010

NOTE: Welcome, AROS fans. I’m an ex-Commodore employee and once-hardcore Amiga fan–the one who went to the shareholder meetings in 90 and 92 to try to talk some sense into Gould and Ali. This Monday morning, I’m sitting on the subway, typing one-handed, large Dunkin Donuts coffee in the other, and iPad in my laptop [...]

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Kicking the High-performance Tracking System Habit

March 9, 2010

Early on, I fell into the Microsoft web development trap like so many others, because IIS was so widely deployed in the small-office environment, and Active Server Pages were so easy to start coding. Not long after, I discovered SQL Server, and not long after that, I learned how to tweak out it’s performance so [...]

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Jumping Off a Cliff and Learning To Fly

March 7, 2010

I’ve talked some lately about my latest programming project. It’s a re-positioning of myself off of Microsoft software, and onto a combination of Unix/Linux software and generic Web APIs. The Programmable Web is one of my daily news-feeder reads, and I see the world gradually shifting towards better living through short-cuts. Since I’m repositioning my [...]

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Generalized Systems and Micro-server DNA

March 4, 2010

I am deeply engaged in my latest generalized system or framework. I count it as my fifth–with my first-four being Microsoft-based variations of the Ruby on Rails-concept. I started on something called IDC/HTX–a Microsoft Internet database connector back in 1997 in a system pre-dates Active Server Pages. Even then, I was designing my code to [...]

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Self-help Life Lessons on Getting Started I Learned From Roomba

February 25, 2010

There’s two types of work–that where you need to be alert and creative–challenging enough where you’re unsure you will be successful. And then there is the type that can and should be automated away–the repetitive boring stuff–call it type-B. While type-b work may require a bit of thinking here and there, it’s nothing you couldn’t [...]

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My Job Motivation Theory — Love It!

February 24, 2010

When things are too good in life, I believe that people fall into relaxed patterns. Desire and drive are often the casualty. It has been my observation that this is why some people who have some major malfunction in their lives are so often the ones pursuing greatness. They stereotypically didn’t get enough love as [...]

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The Thin-Line Between Thinking and Doing in the Information Age

February 23, 2010

There is a thin-line between thinking and actually doing in the information age. What’s the difference between sitting and tapping away at a keyboard to do free-form writing (as I’m doing now) and sitting and tapping at a keyboard to set up a new server and launch a new business? The answer is in the [...]

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