Happy Birthday Palatino Consulting!

My business turned two years old on Friday. Yay my business! So, how’s it been? Great. It’s truly been a joy working for myself over the past two years. I really wish I’d done it sooner. One thing that’s been a negative is the fact that I haven’t done any writing or speaking engagements since […]

Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results

Here I am taking a shot at shorter form writing. Watch me write! The biggest job/career related error I made this past year was going against my own policy and talking to a company I had a bad feeling about from the beginning. I’ve actually known about this company for a long time and think […]

Palatino Consulting, One Year In

While I’ve been consulting independently for slightly more than a year, I’ve been doing so under the Palatino Consulting banner for exactly one year, this week. It’s been going pretty well, thanks for asking. I’m at the point now where I’m starting to think about whether or not I want to expand this business to […]

Current Status: For Hire

My current long-term consulting gig is ending at the end of June and, being a fan of managing uncertainty (did you see how I did that?) I’m trying to line something up for the summer sooner rather than later. I’m sure I’ll find something (I’ve got recruiters knocking down my door), but I’m also interested […]

Google Chrome Reverses Course- Will Implement Pointer Events

This is great news. One of the worst chapters from a standards perspective in The Uncertain Web was on user input. At the time I wrote the chapter, I had a relatively positive tone. The flow of the chapter led to a discussion of Pointer Events and how, with support in IE and intended implementation […]