Who’s behind the Stone?

Ogham Stone was launched by Ted Sobel on New Year’s Day, 2005, in response to a need for a creative outlet that was not being satisfied by the constraints of the corporate world. When the ratio of responsibility to authority tips past that internal threshold, some of us seek ways to restore balance. It turns out that if you dispense with some of the bureaucracy, redundant or ineffective management, and corporate stagnation, you can be freed up to do what it is that you do best.

From the outset, one of our dictums is specialization. We’re specialized. Highly specialized. This means that we don’t see the need to fiddle with all the known languages, technologies and latest whiz-bang fads. The Mac is what we know. Consequently, there is no messing around when it comes to getting things done.

You may notice the use of the first person plural pronoun “we” throughout this site. Ogham Stone is not the lonely efforts of one man in a home office; it represents a growing network of professionals who know what they are about and are out to get the job done; better, quicker, and with a refreshing twist of the imagination.

What is ogham anyway? And why would anyone put it on a stone?

First of all, it’s pronounced | ′Oh-em |, not | ′Oh-gam | or | ′Ah-gam |. Irish/Gaelic utilizes the Roman characters in a manner dissimilar to English. Consonants and groups of consonants are used to modify vowel sounds.

Secondly, it represents an alphabet, a calendar, a sign language, and possibly other uses.

Thirdly, it was built to last. If you carve some lines on a stone, it’s not going anywhere real soon. We see an important lesson in its combination of simplicity and permanency.

Some interesting ogham links: