by gregoryheller | Dec 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
<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...
by gregoryheller | Dec 19, 2005 | Uncategorized
<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) my brother high tailed it out of the city without me.</p> <p>My brother ansered the email that he had a 43 day supply of dried food. I assumed he was kidding.</p> <p>He wasn't. Today I went to his house and there stacked up in his dining room were 4 boxes of dried food. He got it from [l:http://saratogatradingcompany.com|this...
by gregoryheller | Dec 17, 2005 | Uncategorized
<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 college graduates!</p> <p>in 1992 only 41 percent (or something like that) of college graduates were reading at levels commensurate with their education. Today the number is 30%. Last night's [l:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/|Nbc Nightly news] said that this means that 70% of college grads have trouble understanding the editorial page or comprehending novels.</p> <p>So we are graduating Liberal Arts majors who can't read. We are truly in...
by gregoryheller | Dec 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
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 Voice with the click of a button. It is seamless. So put a plantronics DSP400 on your Christmas or Chanukka list. Or if you have Bluetooth on your computer you can use a Bluetooth...
by gregoryheller | Dec 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
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. So I just poked around a bit on the Structured Blogging site and now I am thoroughly intrigued. I want a structured blogging module for...
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