From ZDNet: “WordPress vs. an army of clunky content management systems by ZDNet‘s Larry Dignan — Updated below: There’s a good discussion on the line between journalism and blogging, but it’s also worth noting the technology gulf between media companies and their content minions. In Scott Karp’s overall discussion asking whether blogs can do journalism–I…
Back to the Grind
There’s something about Monday mornings that makes me want to rock out. By the time I get in to the office, my head is aching for caffeine and my eyes are droopy. I have declared in my brain an all-out war on productivity. I really need two good hours on a Monday morning to swing…
In Search of Sanity
Seriously folks, I can’t wait until the 21st of December. That is the very last day of work before a week-long paid vacation for Christmas. I’m going to go home and see my mom and dad and sister, relax, enjoy not doing anything (except maybe taking care of my mom) and sit on my butt.…
My Nerves are Shot
I woke up this morning, took my meds and took a shower. I got ready for work, wasn’t rushed or hurried. Got to work, and students were lined up in their cars in the entranceway to the parking lot, waiting on a space to open up, none of them willing to budge. I begrudgingly went…
NY Times Thinks You Could Do Less to do Better
The New York Times has an article that states, according to some university research, if you’re depressed it could be because you’re a perfectionist. Not necessarily OCD, everything has to be perfect type of perfectionist, but under pressure from peers or family or even self-criticism to be perfect or expect others to be perfect. The…
UNC CAUSE – Day 2
We’re back in Asheville on Day Two of the UNC CAUSE conference. We arrived late because there was pretty much zero parking available. We “invented” a space out of a partial space near a grassy median and the median itself. Good thing we were in the state-owned mini-van when we did that. Morning breakfast was…
Grandma has Cancer
Anyone, everyone who reads this: My grandmother has breast cancer. She just found out yesterday. It hasn’t metastasized to anywhere else in her body, so she should be okay. She has opted to have the breast removed rather than go through chemotherapy. The doctors say that removing it entirely should eliminate the cancer completely. I…
Back in Black
You know you missed me! I’ve been busy lately, what with playing my used copies of Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II on my Playstation 2, going to Halloween parties, trying to get my self-employment gig started back up again, and evil diabolical plans and all. My new business is called “The Raging Tech,” –…
A Sample of My Work
I made this for work. It’s a screencast – a video version of a screenshot, used for instructional purposes. Yes, that’s my real voice there in the background narrating how to fix a problem we have with some of our software we use at work. [MEDIA=1]