Gregory Heller

Month: December 2005

  • Quiet in this corner of the city

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    <p>Without 60ft long articulated buses rumbling by, and no trains on the williamsburg or manhattan bridges, light traffic on both of those and the FDR drive, the Transit sStrike has made my corner of the city pretty quiet. It even seems like there are fewer helocopters.</p>

  • My brother wasn't kidding

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    <p>A few weeks ago I read the Pandemic Preparedness Plan (I would give a link but del.icio.us is down!) and I wrote to my brother and father that we should maybe come up woth a family plan in the event of a serious emergency or pandemic. Last time we had a serious emergency (the blackout)…

  • College graduates can't read

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    <p>What is out nation coming to? There has been alot of press in the last year about how we are not procuding enough engineers. Overwhelming numbers of college students are pursuing Liberal Arts studies rather than math science and engineering. Well, this week brough [l:http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=57739|news] of another alarming trend: sinking adult literacy numbers, including among…

  • An early New Years Resolution for CivicActions

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    I resolve to use Skype more in the new year. This only works if you guys resolve to do it too. Why do I want us to use skype more often? Well if we are skype chatting about something and then need to talk to close the loop, we can easily move from IM to…

  • Structured Blogging

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    Yesterday I saw a post about StructuredBlogging on Bryght’s Blog and on Kaliya’s blog and they piqued my interest. I was kinda surprised that I (or we) hadn’t heard about this conference before it happened because the concept of making blogs even more useful by structuring them with more machine readable data is really great.…

  • Freecycle

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    Anyone who has talked to me recently has probably hyeard me start blabbing about freecycling and freestores. I am very interested in it as a way of reducing waste and waste handling related problems (filling landfills). I was excited to see that NetSquared had an interview with the FreeCycle Founder I was super surprised to…

  • I could have walked it…

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    <p>In case you didn't know it, we are on the brink of a transit strike here in NYC. The effects of which, in the last week before the Christmas and Chanukka Holiday season would be devastating on NYC residents and people who work here. Compound the holiday with the frigid weather, and it is a…

  • NBC Titilation

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    gregoryheller

    <p>Just saw an ad for tomorrow's Today show on NBC "Do you know what your children are doing sexually" or somethign like that. I wrote about this earlier in the year when Kattie Kouric did a 1 hour prime time special about "what your daughters are doing when you are not looking" or somethign like…

  • Free parking in NYC

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    <p>Amanda Hickman point out [l:http://www.transalt.org/press/releases/050901transportation_gap.html|this study from Transportation Alternatives] about city employees driving to work more than other New Yorkers over on [l:http://www.dmiblog.net/archives/2005/12/bikes_and_drivers_in_progress_1.html|DMI Blog]. Parking in the city it one of my issues. Especially when it comes to things like [l:http://www.transalt.org/press/magazine/034Fall/02provocateur.html|the abuse of parking by city employees].</p> <p>Apparently there are 110k or so city parking…

  • Been blogging elsewhere

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    <p>Just an fyi to folks watching this feed, or reading me on my site. I have been spending a bit more time blogging over on the new [lk:civicactions.com|CivicActions] site. So check out [l:http://www.civicactions.com/node/151|stuff like this].</p>