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Originally, Ambit Online was the online home of my consulting business, but the site was a perpetual one page "under construction" wonder. When the business incorporated as Abivia, this domain became my personal site. I hope you find it enjoyable.
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It's Fixed in the Next Release

Want to know what's going on inside my head? You're probably mistaken.

If you're not convinced, then my blog, "It's Fixed in the Next Release" is probably as close as any rational person would want to get.

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Under the Hood

This site is generated by the Joomla content management system. It's running a commercial template that I purchased for a project that never quite took off. I figured I liked the template enough that I'd find someplace to use it sooner or later, and here it is.

Satisfying Incremental Changes

Wednesday, 29 April 2009 09:10

Things are starting to take shape around here. I've recently added a gallery of my rendered and raytraced work. I've added a long article describing how I came to creating and selling abstract sculpture.

These small changes are quite satisfying, and there's a lot more to come.

Ambit Online Reloaded

Tuesday, 24 March 2009 00:00

It has finally happened. I'm doing something with the Ambit Online site. Thanks to the power of modern content management systems, there's finally a relatively easy way to get this site up, running, and looking good at the same time.

But it's early days yet. The first job is the one every site owner should tackle: information architecture. I've sketched out the structure of the content I want on this site, and put in a few place holders, but the real work remains to be done.

I'm also hoping to be able to move the blog over from the very capable Seredipity to a Joomla native solution. This will let me standardize the template and integrate the maintanance into one package. But it's going to b a fairly big job and one that is going to be somewhat disruptive since the URLs to the posts will undoubtedly change.

So bear with me for a while as I get everything in order. Even with good software, the list of things to do inevitably exceeds the time available.

Twitter Feed

Follow @FxNxRl on Twitter if you have a perverse inclination to read garbage like this on a regular basis.

FxNxRl @flashlight ... and... if you can't figure out how to remove spaces and dashes... TAKE UP GARDENING!!

11:24AM Mar 10

FxNxRl @Thinking_again *grin* Fund transit by impounding vehicles and selling them for scrap. Revenue, plus a new rider. 2 for 1 deal!

09:51AM Mar 10

FxNxRl @Thinking_again You're lucky, If I was mayor the fines would be tied to the environmental footprint of the vehicle. Hummers: $50K/ticket.

09:16AM Mar 10

FxNxRl With no tax revolt at 4%, I'm not sure why it wasn't just left there and used to get the balance sheet fixed. Shrug. #toronto

09:12AM Mar 10

FxNxRl @mayormiller It's kind of funny watching the media foam at the mouth in an ever increasing cycle of speculation. Speaks to them, not you.

09:11AM Mar 10

FxNxRl FB page "My sister said if I get 1M fans she will name her baby Megatron" now has 827,000+ fans. Sister worried. http://bit.ly/9K3u9x

07:24AM Mar 10

FxNxRl There's nothing like a little deadline driven hacking on a important project, or the wisdom to stop when fatigue sets in. Good night!

11:28PM Mar 09

FxNxRl @wesbos So happy it went to a good home. If you hadn't grabbed it, it was destined for the scrap heap.

05:02PM Mar 09

Ideas

Ideas are cheap. It's implementing ideas that's difficult. I have more ideas than I could ever implement, so I'm going to start recording them here in hopes that someone thinks the idea is good enough to implement.

Photography

I used to be a pretty decent photographer. Now I mostly take snapshots. I'm going to inflict some of them upon you.

Art & Architecture

I've dabbled in many forms of art. Ray-traced digital art, writing, drawing, architecture, even paint on canvas. Some of it can be good. Most of it reflects the small amount of practice I have put into it. I'm now sharing most of it. The grossly incomplete and embarrassing bits are the only significant omissions.