Part of my current job is to apply an online store’s tool set to conform to the kind of selling an owner wants for their store. Sadly, this often can create a severe case of unnecessary over-complication, because teaching a computer program that a mix-and-match sale item with four different SKUs can have a series … More Over-complication, Made Simple

Barack Obama defeated John McCain in their bids for the Presidency. Do you think Obama would have been so gracious toward his opponent had he been the one making a speech after conceding to McCain? Please do not adjust your sets. The Democrats control the horizontal and the vertical, so please return your trays to … More Campaign 2008: Final Thoughts

Twas the night before Election Day, and all through the nation, People worried about housing, economics and taxation. The voters were all dressed in theirs blues and their reds, While visions of prosperity danced in their heads. On televisions and radios still churned such a clatter, From promises and double-talk that hardly still mattered. From … More Twas the Night Before Election Day…

The debt-free web company I work for (ye ol’ “day job”) moved into a brandy-new stats-of-the-art building earlier this year. While the elder managers on the top floor were initially hesitant to give us free-reign decorating privileges, the Halloween season provided the opportunity for a pod/cubicle decorating binge. I went with a skull theme (go … More Anatomy of a Skull-Infested Cubicle