Summary: Blue is the new Green: while Green is the moral discourse of sustainability, Blue is the economic language that will help us achieve it.

I will slog through this post despite the throbbing headache caused by the "white wine" (translate, 90 proof rice brandy) I was asked to consume profusely yesterday evening at a Guangdong-style (Cantonese) restaurant.

I'm 45, I've been in technology for longer than should be mentioned in polite conversation, and yet, this is my first time in China -- and Beijing, for all of its unique Imperial role and history, definitely counts as China.

I've recently deployed a new spam filter at work and I'm rather proud of the results after the first few weeks.

I'm a Free Software advocate, to say the least. Here at OASIS, we use the open-source and free software package, Drupal, to manage a number of sites. Each site has its own customizations and I've been working to keep my contributions and patches as generic as possible so that I can contribute them back to the various modules. I've also taken a couple of custom modules I've been using both for sites OASIS runs and for sites I manage or have managed in my out-of-work time and created Drupal projects to manage them. I've filled out my Drupal profile a bit too.