Events
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Peelings
The Onion on the Inauguration: Security Measures For The Inauguration No One At White House Knows What To Do With Old Pair Of Rumsfeld’s Pants Most Frequently Heard Words In Obama’s Inauguration Speech Obama Inauguration Speech Ruined By Incessant Jackhammering Hillary Clinton Mouthing Along To Presidential Oath Congress Debates Adding Elaborate Dance To Obama’s Inauguration… Continue reading
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Following USA1549
Afterposts on USA1549 (more popularly, just 1549)… Bio of the pilot, Chesley B. Sullenberger, aka “Sully”, the captain of flight USA1549 yesterday afternoon. Via TheSmokingGun. Charles Bremer, pilot and editor for the London Times, on the flight. Includes interesting background, such as why Airbuses can float “in the unlikely event of a water landing”. Expect… Continue reading
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Santa Barbara Fire
Just learned there’s a fire in Santa Barbara. Our house is not in the evacuation area (that’s Cold Springs, and some surrounding sections in Montecito and SB C ), but we’re still concerned. I’m taking public notes, before I head down there. (I’m in the Bay Area.) I’m listening to KNX/1070 from Los Angeles right… Continue reading
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The Leader
It finally occurs to me to turn on the TV. I’ve been listening to NPR and CNN on the laptop, with the htoel room’s flat screen blank in the corner. BBC Channel 3 is following the man we call #barackobama to the stage in Chicago. Now Obama is speaking. We are and always will be… Continue reading
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Ahead of time
I hate to sleep through history, but that’s the plan. I’m sitting here in a hotel in London at 10:20pm GMT with a connection too slow for video and barely fast enough for audio. Meaningful results won’t be coming in here until about 3am, which is when I’ll get up and try not to listen… Continue reading
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Infinite play
If you get your Internet from a cable company, or from a phone company that connects you to the world through fiber, you’ll find your Net service is the third act in what they call “triple play“: phone, cable TV and Internet. Nothing wrong with triple play. Just something limited. Triple play reduces the biggest… Continue reading
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On the road again
Hitting the road for a long road trip, with just a brief visit back home in Boston next Friday. I’ll be hitting… VRM Hub, London Telco 2.0, London Internet Identity Workshop, Mountain View Public Media BarCamp, Santa Cruz See some of ya’ll in some of those places… Continue reading
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RIP, Sidekick
Our favorite section of the Boston Globe is no more. It was called “Sidekick”, and it featured local news and events in our corner of the metro: the one called “Northwest”.* It had local restaurant reviews, club, theater, school and museum notices, plus other graces that made the paper especially relevant to our family. Well,… Continue reading
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Cluetrainings
After reading this comment by Jonathan MacDonald, I followed the linktrail from here to here, where dwells one of the most remarkable testimonials I’ve ever seen. One short clip: Competitors had absolutely no idea what the secret sauce was because they were not able to see the hundreds of thousands of micro-interactions and conversations happening… Continue reading
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If you live in the Southwest, check this out
The COSMO-SkyMed 3 satellite will be launched into orbit tomorrow, October 24, at 19:28:21, or 21 seconds after 7:28pm, Pacific time, from Vandenberg AFB in California. Says here that the rocket will be a Delta II, which puts on a great show. While the launch will be spectacular from nearby viewing locations, it will be… Continue reading
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Identity Workout
So we’re coming up on our Nth IIW, which happens on November 10-11. I’ve lost track of how many we’ve had so far, which I think is a good sign. Every IIW has been new and different, and unusually productive. The idea behind IIW is getting work done. Moving not only converations forward, but work… Continue reading
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Wheat vs. Chaff
Christopher Buckley in Sorry, Dad, I’m voting for Obama: …I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him. Earlier this year, I wrote in The New York Times—I’m beginning to sound like Paul Krugman, who cannot begin a column without saying, “As I warned the world in my last… Continue reading
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Everything gets worthless
That’s where this vector points. Unless we Do Something, of course. Meanwhile, there’s this source of inspiration: Continue reading