Cultural Cataracts
A personal conversation about the challenges facing educational and cultural progress in the face of overwhelming ignorance and myopia.
The loving neighborhood – For Residents Only
Communites want to stop teenage crime, but continue to take away legitimate outlets for youthful activities.
Online Vs Print
Essay on the values of web publishing over printed media relating to marketing.
Material Merger
A free MAXScript utility to combine mutliple materials and maps into single output materials and maps.
MySQL Sort Order with NULL
Learn how to force NULL values to the end of a sorted list
Autodesk Moving to Rental-Only for Software
How a company made for artists is pushing a policy that promotes more starving artists instead of thriving artists
Autodesk is now making plans to stop selling perpetual licenses and move all future business to a rental-only model.
Subjects in the Classroom and Life
A discussion on the utilitarian value of the subjects our schools teach. This editorial on education was one of the last pieces Shawn Olson printed as a Messenger writer.
The Call for Religion in Schools
An unpublished editorial on religion in the classroom.
It all begins on a bad day
Chapter 1 of The Hermit Colony, a satirical story about a man named Jeremiah Williams.
Unicode Data with PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1
Internationalization is simple with a litlle advanced preparation.
