Brian Scates

If you’re a regular reader of sxates.com (ha!) you may have noticed that after starting relatively strong, posts have trailed off and are now pretty infrequent. This is a pretty common problem for startup blogs – after you’ve dumped the initial genius thoughts you had that prompted you to start the blog, then you look [...]

Used music stores don’t sell 8-tracks anymore, or cassette tapes. But I’ve found several that sell old records. Something about vinyl gives it an enduring quality.
It’s been probably 15-20 years since I played a record, but having found a couple of local caches of vinyl gold, I decided to give it another go. I don’t [...]

Despite being in the web design business for 8+ years, I have never had a personal or business site during that time. I was always too busy, and didn’t have any trouble finding work, so it never happened. For whatever reason, I’ve decided to go ahead and build my personal presence now. I already have a bunch of topics in my drafts folder, so watch this space for content to come!