About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
My pass at MPR’s Minnesota Budget Balancer with the differences from Gov. Pawlenty’s budget. Numbers in $$ millions. Spending Garrick Pawlenty Difference K-12 Education 685 685 Same Pre-school 200 38 -162 Healthcare 300 48 -252 Long-Term Care 76 76 Same Welfare & Other 48 48 Same Local Aid 300 65 -235 Property Tax Relief 40 …
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I’ve got two trips to Chicagoland already queued up for this summer. The first one is Saturday, May 19. When, of this writing, I’ll be spending some time on a go-cart in Buffalo Grove. The last time I attended one of these events, I was trapped on a permanetly-docked gambling boat near Aurora after dining …
Anyone know a good source for downloading, local, independent music. Specifically, I’m looking for Minnesota-based or MN, WI, NoDak, SoDak, IA music. Thanks Update 27 April 2007: I’ve Googled for answer to this question and come up with a number of local music directory projects – some clearly abandon, others just useless. All of these …
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Donavan Hall recently said some very nice things about the First Crack Podcast in his Daily Catch podcast. (After popping by and saying ‘thanks’ last fall, this episode finally came up on shuffle.) He covers the new Dr. Who in the same episode and talks about some of the same issues I have with the …
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I’m taking a week off of active programming to focus on better understanding 3 aspects of Rails development I’ve been wistfully ignoring: Migrations, Testing, and Deployment. There’s a tiny, fun little project I’m using as the venue for these subjects. One week from today (May 1) is what I’m giving myself on this effort. Any …
I’m finally getting around to listening to the sessions I missed at last fall’s Podcast and Portable Media Expo. While there, all the sessions felt like we were prepping for a boom. Everyone looking for how to hit the mother lode. Seven months later, listening to the sessions, that suspicion is confirmed. The tone, pitch, …
I had a great conversation with Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson this weekend at MinneBar, we started talking about the early days of podcasting and how Tim and I both saw podcasting as a farm league for broadcast radio in general – and public radio in particular. The problem is by the time those institutions …
Reminder: Twitter isn’t IM in the same way RSS isn’t email.
A fun game I play with Google….when ever GOOG remembers who I am, I sign out. Back story: Steve Borsch – Google Web History, Rex Hammock – Google now has my attention.
“After New Orleans, the people in Baghdad said, ‘Oh, now I get it.’” – Thomas P. M. Barnett I’m 2/3 of the way through the presentation, and it just keeps getting better.