In All Reality

We often don’t think about what would happen to our online content (created, bookmarked, or otherwise) if the services we use went away. Smashing Magazine had an incident recently that got me thinking about the trust we put in our favorite service and content providers, and how we’ve yet to experience the Internet equivalent of a mass extinction.

Sometimes you make an observation that must be written down for posterity, a thing that you constantly ruminate but yet never seem to place into words. Sitting at a traffic light, I was finally able to take one such ambiguous viewpoint and crystallize it into something worth sharing.

Choosing a CMS is always a big decision, especially when it’s for your employer and your options are limited to a specific language and supporting infrastructure. In today’s adventure, I explore the options available for content management within the confines of .NET and SQL Server.

I spend a lot of time reading through things on the interwebs. I’ve decided to compile the things I’ve found useful into weekly lists for the benefit of all (or possibly just my memory). For the acronym-savvy, I’m going to call these LUTs.

It has been a little less than four months since I married my wife. These are my reflections on that day and some of the events leading up to it; a brief narrative of a day that is already blurry but will (paradoxically) be burned into my mind for the rest of my life.

We bought a house… 6 months ago. With time comes clarity, and with clarity comes the need to document the experience. Read on about our decisions, reasoning, a synopsis of the experience, and what we learned.

Woweee… there hasn’t been a new post up here for awhile has there? Life has changed a lot, and I’m recommitting to jotting it down here.

An examination of one of the perils of using social media at the forefront of corporate or personal branding. Cripsin Porter + Bogusky recently committed an industry faux pas that cost them credibility and disrupted their happy-times Twitter feed on their site.

“Run, jump and rotate your way to success! And Yet It Moves is a puzzle-platformer set in a unique, ripped paper world. Within the paper collage, you evade obstacles, manipulate objects and use the world’s rotational physics to reach your goals. Only if you use all of your skills and the environment’s unique features can you master the many tricky situations you’ll encounter on your journey.”

Upon much contemplation, I have decided that my life’s love is gaming. Console, PC, web, phone… whatever. Musings over finding your niche in this big Web thing we live in and involving your passions in the process.