A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

After nearly 22 years of work designing, building, and architecting tech systems, I have decidedit is time for a change. Beginning with building and hosting websites, then doing Oracle and Salesforce, I have had thehonor and privilege to build some incredible systems...
Death Leaves No Color

Death Leaves No Color

My long hall now dark and emptyWhere once you treaded softlyMy kitchen once filled with laughterNow stilled like a tomb I can not bear to look at the skyWith its haunting clouds, hanging icy and frozenColors once bright and aliveNow have been washed away, faded and...
Tech Jargon Be Not Proud

Tech Jargon Be Not Proud

When I was a kid, I read everything I could. My family had a lot of books in the house and my parents would give me books for Christmas and my birthday. For example, we had this series of books called “Golden Guides” that I loved that covered Stars, Rocks and...
Why Enterprise Software UI/UX is Medieval

Why Enterprise Software UI/UX is Medieval

“People who run (baseball) clubs think in terms of buying players. Your goal should be to buy wins. And in order to buy wins, you need to buy runs…What I see is an imperfect understanding of where runs come from. Baseball thinking is medieval.”   Peter Brand...
Second Life: Why We Couldn’t Escape from Ourselves

Second Life: Why We Couldn’t Escape from Ourselves

Source: Linden Labs This blog’s title is derived from the Star Trek Original Series episode entitled “Shore Leave” (Season 1, Episode 15). The crew beams down to a planet that appears to be an idyllic natural paradise, perfect for some rest and recuperation, though...