Jon Ralston of Transformative Engineering talks about transformers and cables the way Galileo probably talked about constellations and the laws of nature. Excited yet poised, he could speak fluently for hours on the intricacies that make these little black boxes and wires both run and break down.

As someone who owns a marketing firm specializing in website development, I often try to dissuade folks away from free CMS (Content Management Systems) services, sometimes known as “templates”, like WordPress, Wix, Joomla, Squarespace, GoDaddy, etc).

While reviewing emails, I realized that an online proposal on my website was no longer working—instead there was an ugly 404 “Not Found” error page.