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I was a musician once upon a time, but now live as a technical analyst and programmer. I've been around a lot of industries in my day, and formed some opinions about now technology impacts them. The things I blog about here include those opinions on application development, business intelligence, social media marketing, and a number of other things relative to my personal life, like music and family life.

Recent Posts

  • 15 Feb 2010

    Sage words from the past

    Since Liam is now of an age where *I* can give him a bedtime bottle, Rachel and I recently started leveling out our putting-children-to-bed...


  • 17 Jan 2010

    Things I'm Learning During My Job Search

    So as I stated in my last post, I'm on the prowl for a new job. I opened up my experience to the Universe, and promised to keep whoever was...


  • 12 Jan 2010

    Unemployed!

    Last week, I left the employ of BuildingGreen, LLC, a publisher that serves the green building sector, which I really, really didn't want to do. For...


  • 8 Jan 2010

    Resistance Redux 10 Jun 1940 / 8 Aug 1942

    I recently submitted my first work for the annual 60x60 Project, a collaborative affair where the jury selects 60 works (from 60 composers), each up...


  • 4 Jan 2010

    Podcast Episode 1: Jonathan Morris

    It's been a while coming, but I finally got my podcast going late last year! My first guest is DC-based non-profiteer Jonathan Morris, talking about...


  • 3 Jan 2010

    Resolutions 2010

    UPDATE: I've started crossing out various tasks as I move toward my resolutions. This post will be updated as I complete them! I'm a firm believer in...


  • 7 Nov 2009

    Better WHERE's for your Drupal forums with hook_views_query_alter

    Sometimes, Drupal development could benefit from those monkeys with the typewriters who are busily (eventually) reproducing Shakespear's works....


  • 20 Sep 2009

    Auto-login links (one-time and perpetual) in email

    I've recently been thinking (a little too much, it can be argued) about what autologin links do to your web application's security profile. My...


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  • 1 week 12 hours ago
    I received word that this work was selected as part of a 60x60 mix to be premiered at the International Computer Music Conference 2010 (ICMC - www.icmc2010.org). Excitement...
  • 5 weeks 1 day ago
    Sorry to hear about that, Jill. I've gotten a lot of interviews out of agencies in the past, too. But what I most often see even in those cases is *zero* transfer of information,...
  • 7 weeks 1 day ago
    I've been out of a job since October.  I totally agree about the online application process being totally obtuse - it's way more of a time-suck than it needs to be!  And...
  • 8 weeks 4 days ago
    Nope - white noise with some formula-applied filters. Good ears! Stretched+processed consonant would be about the same effect...
  • 8 weeks 4 days ago
    I like the short noise bursts in the stereo channels - is it processed sibilance?