My first online community effort happened in 1994. I didn't have a vision or understand what I was doing. It was low tech and attracted a small population, but it filled a need so it sustained for several years. Back...
Read →I'm frequently unpleasantly surprised by the standard kitchen sponge practices I observe in many many kitchens. I've often observed risky practices at the homes of friends and family. However, more recently, I've...
Read →I've struggled with some job titles in the past. Occasionally I would be filling a new role that related to some emerging tech and have the challenge of trying to tell people what I was doing in as few words as...
Read →There's nothing particularly unique about the virtual community I helped launch recently. The community is for the small but quickly growing group of snowboarding enthusiasts in the Dallas area. Thus, the site is...
Read →I've always loved video games. My first non-pen-and-paper RPG was Dragon Warrior for the NES. I got it free with my subscription to Nintendo Power - so it was long after the game was originally published. My next RPG...
Read →Here's an overview of my evening. I booted my Inspiron 630m up in Ubuntu . I activated my bluetooth mouse and then connected my Z22 via USB and synched it with Evolution . I logged in to gAIM and started working on a...
Read →What We Did Near the end of the first bubble, I joined a cool idea for a startup company. We had a subscription based product to sell online and I was hired as the Director of Web Development. I was stoked; but it...
Read →The Wiki I remember reading about the wiki so many years ago (mid 90s?). I wish my college Technical Writing classes would have included them. Wiki would have made the class far more interesting to those of us that were
Read →Several months ago, I started a project I called Isogame . Using bits of programmer art, art from old projects, and art borrowed from google images (apologies to artists) - I built a very basic isometric map with an...
Read →This is a rant... I hate HTML based forms . Since I started scrapping together bits of html a decade ago, forms have not significantly changed. They are still the same clunky limited user feedback interface they...
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