i’ve been a web designer and developer for 30-plus years and i have opinions about where we are now and how we got there.
suffice to say, the state of the world wide web is not good, especially in the realm of data privacy — a subject on which i can confidently call myself an expert.
expect a continuing series on the big websites who ignore GDPR, CCPA and similar privacy regulations governing cookies, user consent, and the surveillance economy.
“You’re an interesting man, Santo, you do interesting things.”
having a few years ago gone through the effort and expense of securing a namesake domain (possibly frustrating one or two other Jims Santo), and facing a major life change as my retirement day approaches and i prepare to depart New York City after 47 years, it seems to me that i ought to, you know, do something with this thing.
and so here we are.
i have led what i consider to be an interesting life, occupied in varied and often-improbable ways, and have many stories to tell, so i’ll be sharing those.
the one constant throughout my 50 years in the workforce has been music — a passion and activity that i expect will intensify now that i no longer have to dedicate time and energy to making a buck, so i’ll be sharing my music, past and present. and more stories!
growing up Catholic on the North Shore of Long Island in the electric and tumultuous 1960s, and coming of age in the 1970s while descending into the drug- and alcohol-fueled nihilism of that time and place, will doubtless come into the picture as well.
as will poetry, fiction, photography, musings on science, history and whatever the fuck else pops into this mind that won’t let me sleep until i expel it from my skull.
in short, this site is about me, me, me. but you could have guessed that.