Author: Aaron Brazell

  • News Flash

    News Flash

    I don’t write as often as I like but I have opinions on all kinds of news items. I usually share them on Twitter, but I’m going to try a different kind of post here that maybe can develop into a weekly featured item. Photo by just.luc on Flickr. News Item: The Apple iPhone 4…

  • The Changing Face of Comments

    The Changing Face of Comments

    It’s been over six years that I’ve been writing on Technosailor.com. It has gone through many evolutions of themes, plugin uses, writing styles, writers, etc. The latest, if you haven’t noticed, was a move to subdomain technosailor.com as technosailor.com in an effort to rebrand under my name. In the last two years, this site has…

  • I’m Pro Choice. I’m Android.

    I’m Pro Choice. I’m Android.

    We in the tech world are a fickle bunch. On one side of our brain, we scream about openness and freedoms. We verbally disparage anyone who would dare mess with our precious Internet freedoms. Many of us, especially in my WordPress community, swear allegiance to licensing that ensures data and code exchanges on open standards.

  • Austin, Texas.

    Austin, Texas.

    Back in 2007, I visited Austin for the first time with Jeremy Wright for SXSW. I fell in love with the city and have come back for every SXSW since. The truth is, as I’ve since realized, is that Austin is better when it’s not SXSW time and I have spent the past few months…

  • 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 3.0

    10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 3.0

    By now, you’ve probably heard the hype about WordPress 3.0. You may have even seen the WordPress 3.0 preview webinar I did not too long ago. This is somewhat of an odd release as I can’t point to 10 individual new features in WordPress. However, I can point to several very large new features that…

  • WordPress 3.0 Preview Webinar

    WordPress 3.0 Preview Webinar

    Yesterday, the iThemes folks graciously hosted me for a webinar. I had the opportunity to demonstrate some of the more anticipated features of WordPress 3.0 (due out next month). In the process, I also expressed some of the philosophies in the WordPress community around contributing and shaping the most popular publishing platform on the web.…

  • Our lives in a thousand years

    Our lives in a thousand years

    A few days ago, I posed a question on Facebook and on Twitter: What will our offspring know about us in a thousand years? It came after a conversation about how what we know about our ancestors has been discovered through archaeology and discovery of physical evidence. We know much about the Egyptians through discovery…

  • Battle of the Titans: Premium Theme Framework Smackdown

    Battle of the Titans: Premium Theme Framework Smackdown

    I have provided updates for the problems reported with each theme on their pages in this report. We can provide one update per framework as long as something significant has changed (as in a new release of the theme). For a few days now, I’ve been looking closely at the four major theme frameworks. There…

  • Doers & Talkers: Cultivating Innovation

    Doers & Talkers: Cultivating Innovation

    A few years ago, I wrote a post called Doers and Talkers where I profiled two types of people in the technology space: Those who have ideas and are visionaries (or talkers) and those who implement those ideas on behalf of others (the doers). I looked back at that post and realized that, while correct,…

  • Working SXSW (And How I Will Be Hired)

    Working SXSW (And How I Will Be Hired)

    SXSW Interactive is now over and with it comes a big long exhale. For those who were here who I saw, it is always good to catch up and meet new people. For those I missed, let’s connect online somewhere. This year I came with one goal in mind: to find a job. I didn’t…