I have moved my blog over to Blogengine from Wordpress.  All in all, I am happy with the move.  The process to get Blogengine setup was fairly simple; however, some of the necessary database privelages were not documented, but not that big of a problem.  It is important to note that I am not unhappy with with wordpress.  It was a good application and I will miss it.  I wanted to switch over to ASP and IIS7 (I know...why?).

Blogengine does not have all the features and enhancements of the more mature Wordpress, but it has everything I require.  The functionality is g... [More]

Today I realized there is nothing more annoying than phone numbers in email signatures that do not properly select / dial from smart phones / blackberries / etc.

People need to lose the parenthesis when putting there phone number in the signature!

(555) 555-1324 when clicked on with a blackberry or otherwise will only dial 555-1234

If the number was displayed as 555-555-1234 or 555.555.1234 there would not be a problem.

Why can't people give up on the parenthesis?

Also on this note, don't include an image in your signature. Some of us do not like seeing an attachment on every email. Just type in the company name!

Greetings. Over the last couple days I have been in the process of overhauling the site. First big change is the new name. Welcome to Rendition17. With the new name comes the new address: www.rendition17.com.

Overall you will find the same content and a few new things. Three days ago I have started adding a photo per day. Unless otherwise noted, these are all photos taken by me.

With the new name comes a new theme. Though similar to the last one I tried, I like this one a bit more and it has less work to make it fully functional across browsers. The theme provided by: [More]

Check out the new Art Instruction Schools Website.

Yeah, no more flash!

Check out the new Art Instructions Schools TV Commercial.

It is the end of an era, no more man walking through an art gallery commercial.

Well, it has been a while since I made a post. Time to get back in the swing of things. I was recently out at OnDemand 2007 in Boston. It was a good show. I spoke on The benefits of Hybrid Workflows. It was a good conference with great attendee participation.

Adobe showed again the PDF print engine materials / presentations similar to Graph Expo last year.

On the show floor it looked like a lot of companies might be waiting until Drupa to show off anything major.

pay per use models are doomed to fail. when will people wake up and help that along.

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