“People who care about what they eat go somewhere on purpose. People who don’t care, go close or cheap.” – Seth Godin Related: This is an important tipping point in Second Life’s history, as there are approximately THREE efforts to build alternatives, using open source and less expensive technology. – Eric Rice
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Where Was I?
Where was I last week? I don’t know either. Doesn’t matter, I’m back. Let’s rock.
I Thought Europe Was Already a Museum ;)
“In that scenario Europe survives as an Asian and American theme park, with the manual labor done by Muslims. The French and German lifestyle will continue, but with smaller numbers and as a kind of museum piece.” – Tyler Cowen The rallying cry for change: Europe is too rich, too lazy and lacks a dream, …
Genealogy Namespace for OPML?
In my effort to organize the collection of family tree data I’ve acquired in the past week, I’ve tried out a number of proprietary software applications – some worse than others. Currently all my data is in a free application that imports and exports the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ GEDCOM format. The …
Read Us
“I am still waiting for someone to come to their senses in this market, and appropriately offer an RSS tool that allows me to see what the most important people in my life are reading, and what they think of it.” – Stowe Boyd
Web Apps, the New Lock-in, and the Opposite of Backup
Over at MNteractive.com, we’ve been talking about how to close your MySpace account. Leaving sites like MySpace and Friendster should be straight forward – simply delete me. Disconnecting me from all my ‘friends’. No biggy. Not letting me do that is both a privacy issue and a Google juice problem. Sites like YouTube and Flicker …
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Babe Ruth: 1330 Strike Outs – 714 Home Runs
Steve is wondering how to break through the din of our post-scarcity world. I see the lowering of the barriers to publishing very much an opportunity. An opportunity to move faster, publish faster, and continue to lower the barriers for getting interesting applications out to the world. Evan says this is Obvious. The photo Steve …
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330 Years Ago Still Not in Buren
I’ve been doing a little climbing on my family tree this week. While there’s still many bits I’d like to confirm and make more complete. I’m pleasantly surprised to find I trace the Van Buren name 330 years with free search tools like rootsweb.com. I predict 2 generations further will put me in Buren. 😉
A Song for Each Side of a Workplace Break Up
So, despite your better judgement you got involved in a workplace romance. Now you’re no longer crazy about your colleague or the job. Time to move on. A song for you: The Gentle Readers – Last Day at the Office A song for your other: Jeremy Messersmiths – Day Job
Be Progressive, B-E Progressive
On my daily walk last night, I saw a campaign sign for the Independent candidate running in the 5th Congressional District. Odd, I thought this race was a foregone conclusion. Then I find this bit from Mark over at Norwegianity: “..the Cities hoi polloi desperately don’t want Ellison in Congress. He doesn’t owe them squat, …