Unquiet Desperation

We’re having a little Refresh gathering tonight at the Winking Lizard in Lakewood at 7:30pm. There’s no set topic, other than tech in Cleveland and how we can improve it. Come join us!

Winking Lizard 14018 Detroit Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107-4522 Phone: 216.226.6693

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photo credit: PrASanGaMKris Johnson and I have been meeting every morning at a local coffeeshop to get in an hour of writing every day before work. So far, so good…sort of. We’re both struggling with focus at the moment, and I’m starting to wonder if a café with free wifi was such a [...]

(Originally published on RefreshCleveland)

photo credit: doyoukekkoIn the past few weeks, I’ve helped some of my friends move their WordPress blogs to new servers. One of them had a consistent problem with their host because WordPress was hogging cycles on the shared server. We implemented the WP-Cache plugin, and things got better in minutes.

Jeff [...]

A week ago, I asked for people to submit some topics that they’d like to hear me write about. Some of my comrades in the Cleveland Programming Wasteland chimed in, wanting to know how I wound up working for Mahalo.

In a word, podcasting.

No, really.

Desperation, Quiet to Unquiet

When the podcasting community started to form [...]

photo credit: MMMMichelleOn the second day of Penguicon, the furries came out. Luckily, they weren’t drawn to the technical track, so for the most part, we were safe.

Most of the morning, Rick and I hung out. There weren’t any sessions that we wanted to attend, so we headed out for a few hours [...]

photo credit: paulgormanThere may be no place quieter than a con on a Saturday morning.

Still, I’m up. And this is the Penguicon Update: Day 1.

The con itself is good size…it’s pretty much taken over the Troy Hilton, which is not a small hotel. Like all Sci-Fi/Tech conventions, the glasses to non-glasses ratio is pretty [...]

photo credit: alicepopkornThis is an experiment. I’m feeling a bit dry on the creativity side, so I’m turning to you, my readers.

What would you like to hear me talk about? Write about? I’m asking you to ask me questions. Give me topics. I’m dyin’ up here. Post them in the comments, [...]

This coming weekend, cmdln1 is flying up to Cleveland and we are driving up to Penguicon together. This is exciting on three levels.

First, I get to spend time with one of the smartest folks I know2. I’ve been a fan of cmdln’s work for a long time now, and meeting him at Dragon*Con [...]

Originally posted on RefreshCleveland

You have to learn why things work on a starship. - James T. Kirk to Savik in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn

photo credit: ejhogbinI attended Notacon 2008 this weekend. I’d like to tell you about it.

I learned a lot. See…I’m not much of a hacker. I’ve never played with [...]

photo credit: S.HanskiFor the last few years, this blog has had three different domains that point to it. The main url has been http://www.ctmiller.net/chris/wp for a long time, and I’ve been redirecting http://www.unquietdesperation.com and http://chris.ctmiller.net to that.

This is about to change.

I’m moving everything to http://www.unquietdesperation.com as soon as I can. This is [...]