brentashley

first and foremost, i’m father to my children. but that’s not what i’m here on the net for.

netwise, i’m an independent consultant and programmer. i’m a voracious consumer of technical knowledge who believes that the value of information is realized in its sharing.

oh, yeah, the canadian thing too.

i’ve been doing the remote scripting thing for some time now and have found it to be way useful. i wrote a cross-browser remote scripting library called JSRS that has been getting some press of late.

SOAP and XML-RPC are two birds of a similar feather to remote scripting, but of much greater promise. i’ve been resisting SOAP and XML-RPC until now because remote scripting has suited my needs and i don’t want to overcomplicate things HOWEVER with the remarkable coolness of charles cook’s latest blurb about XML-RPC, i’m sold.

this excercise in extroverted introspection is less fun than i thought. i find myself stretching to concoct off-the-cuff sounding profundities. yeeesh.

i read a quote recently (forgot who it was, alas) along the lines that jazz is an adult sensibility – there are no jazz-playing child prodigies. i liken my evolution of musical taste from pop to jazz to my journey from sweet to dry white, then thin to full-bodied red wine. it’s all a refinement of the pallette, a maturation of one’s sensibilities.

whatever happened to the age-old practice of apprenticeship? investment in talent, mentoring, lifelong learning. corporate 21st century employee-widgets are just so many dixie cups to be filled up with courses and seminars, consumed in a series of project-oriented gulps, and discarded.

Experimenting with responses here.

so i’m launching headlong into this weblog phenomenon. i’ve never been a diarist – should be an interesting ride.