Recently, someone was kindly complimenting the layout of this site and commented that, had it been his site, he would have gone with a fixed-width layout. For those of you who don't design websites for a living, a fixed-width site is one that doesn't stretch to fit your browser window. Usually …

At the moment I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Boston. As I mentioned earlier, I haven't been in Boston since I was fairly young and today I'm realizing that I should come here more often. What a great city.  •  This morning I went to the Museum of Fine Art, which had a fantastic and diverse …

On Sunday, I'm heading down to New Hampshire with some of the other silveroranges to meet with a prospective client. We're considering stopping in Boston on the way back (yup, we're driving), a city I haven't visited since I was about fourteen. I'm soliciting advice. If you had one day to do with …

Dan James, our company's CEO, has been documenting his Outward Bound excursion on his weblog for the past few weeks. If you haven't already started following along with his escapades, start at the beginning and you won't be able to stop. Great stuff about body odor, bushwhacking, French women, and …

Last night my girlfriend and I went to Lost in Translation at City Cinema. I thought it was a subtly well written, well shot film that was a touch too drawn out.  •  The basic storyline is that Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a washed up actor, is in Tokyo to shoot a commercial and happens to run into a …

As a few art historian friends pointed out a couple of weeks ago, I may be the last person to find this out. Apparently Edvard Munch's The Scream is in fact a self-portrait expressing his own agoraphobia. Walking with a couple of friends (they're in the painting) he fell behind and was overcome by …

In case it wasn't completely obvious, the name of my weblog is simply my initials in the International Radio Operators Alphabet. If you're interested, here's the full alphabet. What's your name? You may be lucky like my friend Peter Rukavina who gets the pimping name Papa Romeo in the radio world …

I've enjoyed reading Edward Tufte's books about displaying information effectively and have found them immensely informative and helpful for my work. I encourage anyone, no matter what your professional background, to purchase and study any of his books (you should probably start with Envisioning …

I open my weblog with a story of woe and despair. Until a week ago I was the proud owner of beautifully small, make that tiny, digital camera. I bought a Minolta Dimage Xi three-megapixel camera about five months ago and took it with me everywhere. In its short tenure, the camera served me well …