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Awhile ago I realised that Drupal the CMS is really Drupal the database frontend, almost anyway. I thought I would try and take a project that I was working on at work and Drupalize it! Without going into a whole lot of detail this is a mission critical project that includes:

Once upon a time, in a time before Google the internet was a very static place. To get there you fired up your browser which was probably Mosaic, typed in a search term and away you went. Amazing. Well not really. Even the search engine results were static. A neat list of websites that might meet your requirements or not. Kind of boring by today's standards and most likely really boring by tomorrows standards. Oh and graphics were really limited, there was no CSS, and websites were constructed from tables, within tables, within tables. I know, how did we exist?

Sometimes things just come together. Santana was playing on my headphones and one thing just led to another and then it was done. I'll talk more about this in another article – flow, it's what happens when I make art, time flies, my concentration levels are out of this universe. I did this self portrait early one Saturday morning on my Linux box.

I take a lot of pictures with my cell phone mainly because I always have it on me. Okay, I should confess - I have a photo app fetish. Playing around with my photo apps is a bit like painting with finger paints sometimes things get a bit messy, not physically messy but, I have lost a few good shots. Oops. Anyway the two main apps that I use are Photogene and Portray I like them both equally. I also use a

The New Art Gallery of Alberta.
Art is important.
A glimpse inside an idea.

Art is important to me, and it should be important to you. Why? Because art defines who we are as a culture. Art is the separator - between us and animals. The rest of the natural world does not make art nor do they have the magic of language. I can describe my world in words or at least attempt to describe my world with words. The new AGA is a statement and the building itself is art. It is a controversy, it is avant guarde. It is wonderful, like a glimpse inside of an idea.

Jazz does something to me, it stirs my molecules, gets them fired up. If you listen carefully you can hear the jazz roots in almost all modern music that comes after it. Jazz is a standard. It stands alone on it's own. Like classicalmusic it sets a standard. My love for jazz is more than just music though, I like the times. The gritty undertones, the carefully planned glamour. The costly mistakes.