Who I am

Tag/Tag is the technology consulting firm led by
Jacob Redding. I provide consulting services, training, software development and system administration. Utilizing a network of skilled partners I also provide site and graphic design as well as website copywriting, proofing and editing. I am currently working around Asia particularly focused on Beijing & Shanghai China.


What I do

I specialize in the technologies that make the web work in hardware, software and personal form. As a hardware geek I specialize in Apache, MySql/Postgres on Linux. As a developer I use PHP on the Drupal platform for custom site and module development. The web is made up of people and I never stop extending my network to match skilled people with the right companies or projects.

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Hot pot and language learning

Submitted by Jacob Redding on Sat, 2007-11-24 01:19.

You often learn languages in the most common of places. This evening Diana and I went out to our local hotpot restaurant (火锅饭店). The meal started off as normal except that I can now fully understand when the waiter/waitress (who, I'm pretty sure, are also the owners) ask if we want a spicy sauce or not (I get the spicy). That in itself is pretty cool but today I was also able to ask what another customer ordered. It looked good and I wanted some.

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Mandarin Lessons and an upcoming trip

Submitted by Jacob Redding on Fri, 2006-01-06 02:16.
Last night was the first of what will, hopefully, be many (many) lessons in Mandarin Chinese. Yes I am learning chinese. Why?? ........ why not? 

Diana was patient with me and showed me several characters and I wrote my first sentence last night (Are you Chinese?) Whoo Hoo! I'll be a rockin' Chinese-character Writing fool in no time (and by no time I mean 30 to 40 years).

Also it is somewhat-official (tickets haven't been purchased yet). I am going to China in late March to Mid April. I will keep you all updated and, as always, pictures will be available in the gallery. 

Oh hey, did anyone notice that the pictures in the "My Room" gallery are screwed up. I'll try to get that fixed sometime soon. 

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