Photographs


Jaipur Market Poritcos.jpg

Jaipur Market Poritcos.jpg

Short Tentacle Plate Coral (Fungia danai) .jpg

Short Tentacle Plate Coral (Fungia danai) .jpg

Josh strolling around Healdsburg

Josh strolling around Healdsburg

Walking down the streets of Jaipur we encountered one of the more disturbing things in India - people who are cripple, suffered from polio, or amputation.

Walking down the streets of Jaipur we encountered one of the...

Ferry Building

Ferry Building

Unknown Jade Bear w/ Salmon

Unknown Jade Bear w/ Salmon

This is another typical street scene in Jaipur. People selling fruits and vegetables along the side of the road. It was an orgy of color and hard to resist eating!

This is another typical street scene in Jaipur. People selling...

Another photo that seems to capture what India is always like - people everywhere at high densities. I often found myself wondering where they think they will put more people as there isnt a ...

Another photo that seems to capture what India is always like...

Tablemania Life Hacks

I was asked today about some of the ways that I help organize and run my life. I will start by saying that all of this is my opinion and my interpretation, so you will more than likely disagree, which is part of the fun.

I would consider myself an early adopter – I had [...]

5 Tips for Helping Guide Technical Decisions

Here are 5 technical ideals that we should make sure all of our work conforms to and how they each support your local Value Proposition.

Support the Value Proposition – Yes! You thought the first one would be anything but? Make sure your work supports the Value Proposition! If this isn’t clear take a moment [...]

Holiday Reflections

I warn you, this is a ramble or sorts, and It definitely might make you wonder what I am up to on a Saturday afternoon, but my intent is to be though provoking. I observe Shabbat as much as I can, and a day of no technology and thinking, well makes a guy think!

I [...]

Résumé & CV

Senior Information Technology Leader

Strategy • Operations • Development • Implementation

Information technology professional with 19 years of experience leading the design, development, and implementation of business software and infrastructure. Frequently leading projects that are critical to business success and high profile in both startups and mature corporations. Advanced technical acuity [...]

Hackintosh and Geekiness

I am the proud owner of a hackintosh. Yes I know this is not allowed by the rules, but I wanted to see how easy it was and really would like an OS X box to sit here and stream media to my TV when my laptop is in use.

My new plan is to [...]

5 Lessons on The Hard Work of Web Dev

I have been thinking a lot about leanness & productivity both on the staffing side and on the technology side. How do you get that super cool content driven website up quickly with all the features you want and not have it cost a fortune? One of the first things I think about is how [...]

Comments on Public Clouds

An interesting article appeared in the press this morning. This redux is that the three major public clouds from Amazon, Google & Microsoft are not up to enterprise or even near enterprise levels in terms of SLA, monitoring, and performance.

This is not really news for those of us who have “played around” with these [...]

Apps & Servers In The Cloud

In the last 6 months I have spent time figuring out how to get java applications running in the cloud – EC2, private, or otherwise. While there seems to be a great deal of progress in making this easier for me as the developer/deployer there still seems to be a problem with the way many [...]

Nathan

Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure – Rainier Maria Rilke

It seems strange to write a page like this on my blog as this whole entire thing is about my travels both physical and existential through life. I suppose I can try to give a brief overview of who [...]