Archive

April 2025

AbleSign - How We Solved a Client's Dilemma: For one of our clients they had a need for digital signage. We looked into a variety of options of varying complexity and pricing. After spinning our wheels for a few hours we finally found a solution in AbleSign. We began using the software and within seconds had solved our clients issue. AbleSign …

March 2025

An Affinity with Data: Affinity Publisher’s data-merge features, enhanced by Excel, allow for efficient creation of customized digital signage and print materials for events at Bloomin Beads.

Spirit City: Lo-Fi Sessions Review: Spirit City: Lo-Fi Sessions (we make money from sales at this link) is a game that I’ve been using on the Crossed Wires Live streams. The game isn’t what you would normally classify as a game. It’s a customizable virtual background of your own house in Spirit City. As you progress …

January 2025

Statement On Our Social Media Presence: We try to be very careful about the social networks and platforms we use. We are on Twitch and YouTube for video content, despite having major concerns, notably around privacy and the content they allow on their platforms, about the platforms themselves and their respective parent companies. …

Statement on Our Support of LGBTQIA+: With the re-election of Trump by a sizeable proportion of the United States, we feel it’s more important than ever for us to speak up about our support of LGBTQIA+ rights. It goes without saying that Crossed Wires is fully in support of the LGBTQIA+ community, especially since James and Jae …

December 2024

Website Redesign: We are in the midst of a website redesign, partly because of the feud between Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine and partly because WordPress has just become way too bulky. We are moving the podcast website to be hosted via our provider Castos. The blog we are going to be hosting on Micro.blog as …