Index Template to Create Redirect list for .htaccess

Excerpt: I decided to change the structure of the /articles/ site slightly, to remove the /archives/ path from the URL and to change the filename from the article number to a munged form of the title. As there weren't many articles, I could easily manually create a redirect list for my .htaccess file, but I wanted to see if I could use a MovableType Index Template to...

Posted: June 13, 2004

ibm.com history on the web

Excerpt: ibm.com has been online for ten years now. This is a collection of sites which discuss ibm.com over the years (note that some links may decay over time or require registration).

Posted: May 24, 2004

May 1994: www.ibm.com is launched

Excerpt: Wherein the young technical writer blossoms into a Corporate Webmaster.

Posted: May 17, 2004

Content-encoding: gzip

Excerpt: This is a posting-in-progress on my experiences with compression in PHP.

Posted: April 20, 2004

ibm.com derails

Excerpt: After ten years you'd think IBM's Corporate Web Site, www.ibm.com, would be professionally operated, but no.

Posted: January 27, 2004

Superbowl XXXII

Excerpt: On this day five years ago I was not at Superbowl XXXII. Instead, I was freezing my tail off in Nagano, Japan. 24 hours earlier (maybe somewhat more due to time-zone shifting) I had been in San Diego, CA, with full media access, supporting superbowl.com. Silly me, I'd even packed my passport. See, in the Fall of 1997, someone in IBM got pitched the idea of...

Posted: January 26, 2003

Ideology and Technology: Mode of Information as Critical Theory

Excerpt: Note: This is an essay I wrote in 1991 when I thought I could walk and talk with the best of the Literary Theoricists. I couldn't of course, but much of what I researched for this paper ended up informing and biasing my later work as IBM's Corporate Webmaster. I'd like to claim that in 1991 I thought the Internet would become a massive, worldchanging technology,...

Posted: May 16, 1991