It’s finally time to retire my trusty old Sony Ericsson T616 mobile phone. It served me well, even though it tended to frustrate me with the overly tiny buttons and the need to constantly lock and unlock the keypad. I was a long time AT&T Wireless customer and was recently absorbed by the Cingular Wireless [...]

I finally picked up a copy of Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin. Better late than never, right? The first thing that made me very happy was the size and length of the book. It clocks in at 145 pages and the dimensions are similar to a short paperback novel, [...]

The power of a quick email reply can not be underestimated. I recently began contacting vendors for quotes and proposals on some work I need done. I began by visiting their websites, which I had bookmarked over time. I emailed four companies for their proposals. I received one auto-reply instantly, with a follow up email [...]

Over the past year, my collection of shareware or demo-ware that I’ve downloaded and purchased off the internet has grown significantly. All these products have something in common. They send me a license key to unlock the full version of the software after payment. This license information comes to me via email and I copy [...]

Ah, the first post. Well, first of all, welcome to my readers coming from my Mac Game Programming blog: Make Mac Games. Thanks for checking out this site and giving it a chance. So what’s this all about? For years, I’ve been consulting to the corporate world. I started out working for a Chicago engineering [...]