I’m thinking hard about a site redesign for my minimalist, boring link page casually known as sendai77.com. The problem is me of course: i’m the client, the writer, the designer, the technical consultant, the developer, and the cobbler. More about me: I’m a busy consultant for IBM. I use the word “consultant” loosely: in the [...]
Today I travel to Fairfax, Virginia to check in and prepare for tomorrow’s intake ceremonies at IBM. Thus commences a new chapter in my professional life. The Onboardiad is scheduled to last a week. I’m struck by this composite word, which has been wrangled into acting like a verb, much like planing and deplaning, which [...]
The Washington Post informs us that Wal-Mart is undercutting iTunes in the marketplace by engaging in a price war over non-copy-restricted mp3s. I can’t help but shake my head and feel the coming rain in my bones. You see, I’m old enough to remember the sensation of flipping through 12″ vinyl records every weekend when [...]
I wish I could hand out violation tickets on the web. But since I can’t, I think I’ll rant a little instead. I don’t know about you, but I get really annoyed when a designer decides to resize your browser window for you. Why does this annoy me, I asked myself? Am I being unreasonable? [...]
Stop the presses? OK, well, I haven’t told you the cool part. The cool part that’s so… last year. I’m looking at my resume, which is in Word, and I’m thinking, “This is so lame. I’m supposed to be a technology/marketing/creative dude, and all I have to show for all that is this Word document?” [...]
Here are some more detailed steps I took to get Liferay and Tomcat to work together. Then, I’ll share some more interesting data and observations. For those hardware/OS minded folks, these experiments are being conducted on a Dell Latitude 620 2.33 GHZ Intel Centrino Duo running Windows XP SP 2, 2 GB of RAM. So [...]