mike’s place

On the work front, I’ve recently completed two sites for clients, Dr. Trina Read, Sexologist and Inflow Services.

Whoa, great news! Doug Bowman is moving to Google. Congratulations Doug! Great move by Google.

Here’s an excellent anecdote about throwing more resources at a problem. Any managers out there–please read this.

Via Gruber.

I’ve been playing around with Campfire, another great product
brought to you by the fine folks over at 37 signals.
I think this is going to be a great tool for small businesses.

If I’m online, I can be reached at mike’s place.

Indeed!
Guy Kawasaki has started blogging. Whoot! This should be quite a ride. I’m currently reading his latest book, Art of the Start, and enjoying it tremendously.

I sometimes take issue with what Robert Scoble writes, however, I really admire this honest appraisal of Microsoft’s web development tool chain. MS is going to have a hard time competing against all of the fabulous open source tools available to web developers. I wish all of my clients would read this.

John Gruber has an excellent piece on Adobe’s recent acquisition of Macromedia. Wow! Talk about cutting through the crap to get to the real meat of the matter. It’s insightful — and btw, humourous — analysis such as this that prompted me to become an official, card carryingmember.

Holy crap! This is huge!!! One can only imagine what kind of fallout will result from this vis-à-vis competitiion in the industry. I’ll admit that I’m somewhat concerned.

Jeremy has an interesting post about work. Oh how true it is!

(Via Ensight - Jeremy C. Wright.)

TELUS is blocking ports in the “name of security”. Yeah, right. Tsk, tsk. Methinks it’s more like “Show me the money!” (via Boing boing).

The opening sequence of this Saville Row bespoke tailoring company is hilarious. (via Hugh)

Here’s an excellent article on blogging and journalism. Highly recommended reading!

It’s sad but I’ve seen thiswaaaay too many times over the past 20+ years. It’s not something I have an issue with – I’ve made poor decisions in the past – not many mind you – but I’ll be the first to admit them.