First of all, I have had a strange relationship with my name throughout my life. Pre-internet days, I had the strange (and apparently misguided) thought that my name was kind of odd or unusual. At the roadside Stuckey’s, it seemed like I could rarely find my name on a toy license plate. Maybe that’s where […]
The violent events of Wednesday, January 6 at the US Capital has caused many former allies to turn away from Trump. The usual expression is “in the 11th hour,” but this is more like 30 minutes after midnight. How late is too late? Life-long progressives have (understandably) gotten angrier over the past decade or so.
De-Trumpifying America Read Post »
We’ve been doing a number of yearly partner reviews in the past month. For obvious reasons those details aren’t public, but there is one thing I can talk about – the strategic value of partnerships in 2021. Many of my partners expressed an interest not only in the transactional – referrals, commissions, and isolated co-marketing
A month of yearly reviews Read Post »
I was fortunate enough to be able to take December 31-January 4 completely off. By the afternoon of January 4 I just couldn’t resist taking a peek at my inbox:
I’m planning a conversation with a partner (public webinar) about PWAs and Magento in January. Progressive Web Applications (PWA) have been a hot topic in eCommerce since at least 2017 or thereabouts. Google started promoting it as a standard because it potentially solves a major pair of problems associated with mobile apps – complexity and
Talking about PWAs (and getting sidetracked talking about apps) Read Post »
I read part of this book a few months ago when it was apparently on Kindle Unlimited. Guess I should have finished it then, because I apparently turned it back in, subsequent events renewed my interest in it, and now I had to buy it. But it’s worth the purchase.
Boundaries (book discussion) Read Post »
It’s been an eventful year (in addition to the usual): went to work for Nexcess, a hosting company I’ve worked with in former lives registered the domain garysmith.us – this site will be a bit more personal-brand-and-work-oriented. In the process of moving (at least partially) to Huntsville, AL, in that I’m getting an apartment big
Another still-alive post Read Post »
Growing up I was not painfully aware of the banal, generic quality of my name. My dad complained about his name (which was, and I am not making this up – Sam). But that was before the internet put us all in a global competition for handles. (And let me tell you how shocked I
My name as an alias Read Post »
One part attempt at starting a sort of newsletter/blog; one part playing with WordPress and seeing what it can do with the basic 2021 theme. I won’t put a ’90s style construction sign on here, but as of now it’s a work in progress. It’s been right at about a year since I started with
One Year Mark with Nexcess Read Post »
Based on a recent discussion, I have been contemplating the problem of fellowship in the church, given that we don’t all agree on doctrinal or behavioral issues. There is a tacit tendency to fellowship those whom we agree with on important doctrinal or behavioral issues, but this raises the issue – what is important?
The Problem of the Imperfect Church Read Post »