A benefit of having a dog is getting out and walking which leads to meeting your neighbors which leads to finding out interesting tidbits about the people in your ‘hood. The other evening, I was out walking Pip and ran into Joe. That makes four bloggers in the ‘hood that I know of now. And [...]
Chicagocrime.org has gone the way of the dinosaur. Sadly, it was old technology that did it in. But it’s been reborn, bigger and better. Introducing EveryBlock / The EveryBlock Blog “Whats happening in my neighborhood?” For a long time, thats been a tough question to answer. In dense, bustling cities like Chicago, New York and [...]
Can a blog post have a life cycle? Some folks think so. The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips [...]
PC World – Business Center: MySQL: Sun’s Billion-Dollar Baby Sun put its money where its mouth is Wednesday, with the announcement that it would buy open source database vendor MySQL for a whopping $1 billion. If the price tag set tongues wagging, however, it was no more tantalizing than the question that immediately sprung to [...]
Susan is addicted to Solitaire. She plays it online. She plays it on the Palm I gave her. She was up the other night until 2 a.m. playing. She plays at any given free moment. We need an intervention. She did say she was going to blog more didn’t she? She hasn’t even posted about [...]