Chris Blanc: Play and Projects: Blog

Chris Green is living in Washington, DC and writing a political mystery that’s supposed to be at least somewhat fictional, though as he notes it’s hard to beat reality for sheer freakiness.

Jason was one of the few people to insist that code wasn’t good until it was beautifully architected, cleanly laid out, well commented and documented. He was someone who constantly saw new ways to use simple combinations of existing technologies to avoid new irrelevant complexity. He was an artist, a scientist and an athlete.

The only really bad thing I can say about him, I guess, is the past tense in the above paragraph. You might find his story intriguing, or maybe just enjoy the many free and open source ideas and code he contributed on his website.

Jason Lamport

Owen Plant headlines the legendary Club Passim again April 27. Fes Aswat of Shake Senora fame will join him and there may be some other Senorans coming too (no pressure…won’t mention names… Mattias Murhagen!!) The opener, Pat Wictor, will undoubtedly jam on slide as well.

Buy tickets online ($15): 7pm show / 10pm show

Derrick Ashong wrote about Owen’s EP “This Is
The One”.

Katie Pollard is trying to sell a condo without a real estate agent.

Veronica Francis just started up a Web consulting firm.

I have just fired up a mailing list for those who want to goof off at work with some quality but random information.

I resisted getting a blog because most blogs are used by their owners to glorify that owner’s life as something fascinating, unique, empowering, vivacious. I like to think I’m more of a realist. I’m another human being on planet earth, with some abilities inferior and some superior to the norm. My life is not fascinating. I am not dramatic. In fact, I’m generally quite boring.

I started posting here to provide a news and human interest source for the following topics:

• Information technology
• Fiction writing
• Technical writing
• Literature
• Information security
• Information architecture
• Marketing and brand identity
• Meme tracking
• Human psychology
• Interaction design
• User-centric design

These things interest me, and I think that pursuing what both interests you and is useful to others is a good way to succeed for yourself, and in any society around you. I would like this blog to be a place to read interesting things, not an egoutlet.

Hopefully you can hear me. Is this thing on?