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40 years of experience, 8 industries, 3 partners, 1 company, Acqal

Quick, what's Michael reading these days?

I read a lot.

Not just every week, but every day.

Every day, I browse through and read 100 to 150 articles from over 40 resources.

During my daily reading, I occasionally find a story that catches a particular interest of mine. Recently, I found out that my business partners are interested in them and I figure you might be as well.

To see the latest articles of my interests in business, software, productivity, home ownership,...

Whew... it's a busy day, week, month, summer...

It's 8:34 PM and I'm finally wrapping it up for the evening after a long day of work. I barely took a long enough break to grill burgers for dinner with the family.

Though I try to write a "real" blog entry twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, some days I'm not able to. Like today.

Here's why, Cannonbose is wrapping up 2 projects, gearing up to start another project involving 30 websites and 5 languages, resolving several...

Change is Inevitable

Cannonbose is about to change a little and a lot.

Focus, the Hard Part

Running your own business is work.

Sometimes, getting started might have been a fluke. However, after a while, you want more out of your business. In wanting more comes a need to grow and be even more focused, organized, and successful.

Now this is where the real work comes.

The first few years of Cannonbose was freelance based with short and medium length project terms. In recent years, Cannonbose has ran as a real company with people...

Multi-lingual TYPO3 Website Configuration Update

I've updated the TypoScript constants and setup fields of How do I configure TYPO3 for localized websites.

It seems that under some PHP versions, the TypoScript conditional for globalString doesn't have direct access to the Apache environmental variable. Therefore, I changed the conditions to check for them via PHP's _SERVER variable.

Also, I removed the TypoScript constants for the baseURL entries as it didn't make sense to replicate them...

BJTonline.com Launches

The aviation industries top fliers are flying a little higher with TYPO3, Cannonbose, and Aviation International News.

Cannonbose Business Lesson #1

Save yourself headaches and money.

Still Busy, 2 Major Projects Launching, Loads of Podcasts

Life is still pretty busy these days for me. In fact, I've pushed back for the 3rd time heading to Boston for gettng Peichi's and my marriage paperwork authenticated for us to be registered in Taiwan. I'm aiming to get a resident visa instead of a work or other so that I can attend school and own a business in Taiwan.

Next week, Cannonbose will be launching two new sites. One is based upon an aviation related publication. Another is a TYPO3...

How I'm Paying Off My Credit Cards

A recent email discussion, lends itself to a talk about paying off credit cards.