Welcome

Welcome

Welcome to Rick Cogley Central, with articles, biographical information and other resources.
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About Me

Rick Cogley is a Japan-based experienced technologist, consultant and manager, who is founder and CEO of eSolia Inc. (www.esolia.com), an IT management firm.
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Selected Projects

Rick Cogley has led large and complex projects to success, including ERP, data center infra, compliance, business process reengineering, web development and logistics.
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Site Highlights

Bio

Hi, and welcome to my site. I'm an experienced Japan-based IT consultant, project manager, and CEO of eSolia Inc, my IT management consultancy.

Articles

My articles on tech, productivity, Japan, business, all listed chronologically (creative, eh?).

Topics

A list of the topics under which I'm grouping my articles on this site, such as Business, Humor, Tips, Troubleshooting, or Language.

Resources

A most excellent set of resource pages I assembled, like FAQs on cycling and Mac use, keyboard shortcuts, and geeky terminal command equivalents.

Paper Life From Shitamachi Tokyo

The stationers I use near my office, Okamotoya Toranomon, introduced me to L!FE products, when I asked for a good paper to use with fountain pens. Let me introduce them here.

12 Feb
2013

Site Re Launch in Octopress

I had a bit of a journey in relaunching Rick Cogley Central, this time creating it in a static site generator over my previous tool RapidWeaver. Read on to hear the gory gory!

21 May
2013

Flickring Out

Flickr upgraded their site and offerings today, and I cannot say I'm impressed. Looks like free users are worth more to Yahoo than the long-term paying ones.

22 Apr
2013

Paper Life From Shitamachi Tokyo

The stationers I use near my office, Okamotoya Toranomon, introduced me to L!FE products, when I asked for a good paper to use with fountain pens. Let me introduce them here.