Clator Butler

I usually am a man of many words.  But all I can say on this dark day is what I put to words and music when I was a much younger man.  For the victims of Newtown, for the families and teachers affected by today's tragedy, we hold you in our prayers.

As politically opinionated as I am, I've been fairly silent in my writings about this upcoming election this year.  My absentee ballot has been cast so no amount of debates or annoying phone calls will make a difference to me at this point.  I've Facebooked here and there on some real issues that neither party is tackling and think that's a good place to focus our energy instead of cowing to the cult of personality each party tries to build.

Campaign Finance Reform

I've seen lots of people asking how much the candidates have spent and how many of our country's problems could be solved with

My father spent the bulk of his career with Burlington Industries, who at their peak were the largest textile company in the world.  The last 12 years of his time there saw him in charge of training the workforce, especially management.  25 years after official retirement and at 81-years-young, Dad continues as a management and labor relations consultant, to whom manufacturing companies send their managers to learn more about how to treat their workers the right way, making them more productive and efficient, while happy and fulfilled in their work.

My father-in-law was a long-time employee of

If you’re a Web professional who consults with the Government like me, you’re inevitably routinely frustrated by the need to still test your sites on Internet Explorer (IE).  The Government’s slowness to adopt new technologies keeps us having to make things compatible for aging and poorly-implemented standards.  Worse yet, Microsoft’s unwillingness to make its versions of IE (going back to v6 … they’re up to v9 now) available for the Mac platform serves as a major hinderance for Web designers and developers who may (and often do) opt for the Mac.

Don't get me wrong, I still have a Windows

Happy Easter, my friends.  Sorry it's been awhile since my last post. I hope to make this blog a weekly thing, but I've been my usual busy self lately, doing so many things that I haven't left much room for sharing about them.  I wasn't sure what to write about at first.  With so many diverse topics to choose from (and I love free form expression), I was torn between something on the entertainment front or something on the religious front (it being Easter and all).  Well, why not a hybrid of the two?