Angeltech SOA Primer

A Service-Oriented Architecture Primer is now available among the Angeltech Models. This short treatment offers general technical definitions of SOA and related concepts in order to better understand the Angeltech Visual Kabbalah (sm) analogies. The primer is written from a systems architecture POV.

Milton

Milton saw a nine-day fall
To the deeps of Hell from Heaven's Hall.
See, nine days shocked, I got messed up
Ten worlds down and all dressed up.
And now I see that he was right,
But I can't say I see the light--
Just shadows casting shadows 'cross the sprawl.

Milton saw a nine-day fall
Through brawling Chaos and Night withal.
See, nine days rocked, I got roughed up.
Ten steps back, but still puffed up.
Milton's familiar angel,
That bright-eyed one named Abdiel--
He is the very one who took the call.

Milton saw a nine-day fall
Arc through the aether like a fireball.
See, nine days clocked. I'm so fucked up.
Tenfold crazed, all pride sucked up.
My Legion driven as foaming swine,
The Blessed pressed us to steep decline--
They hurled me headlong from the crystal wall.

Bridge:
Avengers on my heels all the way
With songs of Te Deum and Kyrie.

I lived by the word
And I lived by my sword.
I once loved a woman
And I once loved...

Ruskin as Artist

Ruskin's Elements of Drawing

"The Elements of Drawing is a searchable and browsable online version of the teaching collection and catalogues assembled by John Ruskin for his Oxford drawing schools..."