A little while ago I wrote a recommendation for a client about some content-reuse issues, and ended up writing a section entitled "First Principles." These might seem obvious, but a surprisingly large amount of time and money are being spent on systems and designs that don't take these principles into account. If you want to avoid paying someone like me a lot of money in a few years, think about these things before you invest in a CMS.

Some projects are more fun than others. Our latest is one of those -- the web site for author Leigh Anderson's new collection of "low-tech games for highly social people," The Games Bible. It's a collection of games to play with your friends, ranging from simple games you can play with pen and paper while waiting for a movie to start, to card games, to intensely complicated strategy games.

Press+ launched its first newspaper affiliate today, Lancaster Online, the web site of Pennsylvania's Lancaster Intelligencer and New Era, based almost entirely on Harmonica's software and project management.

Yes, this is a content-management consulting web site, not a site for harmonica players. Sorry about that. But, you can have your own harmoni.ca email address, for free. That's right. Just drop us a line and we can set up an address @harmoni.ca that will forward to your own email address. It's the ultimate free-reed vanity plate so get yours now.

We also offer mailboxes and web page hosting at reasonable rates. Contact us for details.

Yes, I've started a technology consulting firm and named it after an instrument that's too often seen as a toy, and dismissed by serious musicians. But that's the point. Over the years I've seen simple solutions dismissed in favor of large and expensive projects that, if they don't fail entirely, produce complex systems that cost too much, don't make sense, and don't even meet the original need very well.

Harmonica, LLC, is now a registered business entity in the State Of New York. Amusingly enough, this form of corporation is known, for tax purposes, as a "disregarded entity."