Grey Tuesday

Today is Grey Tuesday.This morning I edited the site’s CSS file and turned most background elements a shade of grey as a sign of support for the right to distribute the Grey Album. … Read more

We Don’t Support That

Punters, givers and formatters. Tech support staff earn these colorful nicknames based on their approach to meeting an “average call time” goal of 12 minutes. On the other hand, if your goal is … Read more

A Wonderful Place to Be

I just ran across this interview with David Kemper, drummer for the Jerry Garcia Band for 10 years and later a member of Bob Dylan’s touring band. It’s an honest look back at … Read more

Smoky Hill River, base of Kanopolis Dam

eTech04 Summary

I attended the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (eTech04) in San Diego the week of February 9th. It was a fantastic, energetic and thought provoking conference, covering a wide variety of topics that I’m … Read more

eTech04 Backchannel

One aspect of the eTech04 conference that I found intriguing was the back channel IRC (chat) experience. Always on, almost always active, #etech and #joiito provided an alternate view of the conference; at … Read more

Honor of the Salesman

is a blog covering the dark side of retail, viewed with a wry perspective from the “other” side of the counter. The featured image (which may only be displayed on the index pages, … Read more

More from eTech04

The wide variety of topics covered and fast pace of shared thoughts and ideas continued through the last two days of the 2004 O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. My 3 word summary? Best Conference … Read more