September 2009
5 posts
Over Labor Day I spent some time ranting about how the quality of jeans and many consumer goods has been on a steep decline as U.S. companies have aggressively outsourced production. It would be easy to write the discussion off as an abnormal geek obsession. Ok that’s true. But I do believe that the recognition of quality and craftsmanship is important if you, yourself, want to produce a...
10 years ago, when home internet access was limited to dial-up modems, many discussions in the industry centered on the last mile problem. Completing the last leg of the high speed internet to residences was going to cost far more and be a much bigger technical problem than the commercial backbone. At the time I didn’t own a computer because the access I had at home was dwarfed by what we...
A few months ago I wrote how I was humbled trying to record
screen capture demos of our product for internal training. My original attempt wasn’t too productive.
I probably was overly ambitious and set my standards too high. But recently I decided
to give it another shot, with the opposite expectations. I lowered my standands and decided to release what ever I created
in one take. Well, I...
It has been awhile since I’ve updated my website regularly. In retrospect, I regret this. 15 years after logging onto the internet, I still believe in the democratization of information that it once promised. Before it was almost impossible to distribute content with any scale, and the media was firmly controlled by the few. If you think the media controls opinion now, remember what it was...
Some American made goods for Labor day…
Today, while perusing the web site of one of the few companies in the U.S. which sell the Japanese jeans I wear, I saw a product by the Japanese apparel company, Sugar Cane,
jeans made in the U.S., that caused me to pause. I had just documented some
of my
U.S. made goods, and high quality U.S. made jeans
are something I’ve been seeking for...