going green works and doesn’t hurt at all. 2009 carbon emissions drop 7 percent
While folks were grousing around arguing about policies, treaties, accords and laws to deal with climate change, popping off pithy catch phrases like cap-and-trade and talking like going green meant going broke, something interesting happened: the free market has organically cut carbon emissions by 7%. the largest drop since the EIA started measuring data in [...]
Roll Call writes up The Hill is Home
Disclosure: I helped start this hyperlocal blog over the summer, and continue to host it and consult with Kate and her very able crew. Nice to see this piece recognizing their great work: Folks in Capitol Hill really love their neighborhood. Whether it’s touting the greatness of Eastern Market or raving about the recent influx [...]
Welcome to the redesigned blog
The old design of the blog dated back to the original Movable Type deployment and was ported to WordPress. Welcome back and welcome to the new design. With a new year and new changes, it was time to update the look and feel of my personal site. The original design dates back to when I [...]
Red Devils reign, win state championship
Cheers to my high school alma mater for winning the IHSAA Class 3A state football championship over the weekend. Coach Marshall Overly cut his teeth as the defensive coach for the team that I played on as a member of the “Valley Club.” Couldn’t happen to a greater guy. Congrats to all: LS/ RDP/ DDDD [...]
Photos from NavalLodge4's Back to School Fun Fair
We had a great time for a great cause at the 4th annual Back to School Fun Fair at Watkins Elementary Friday. Here are a few photos from the event. We raised thousands of dollars and entertained over a thousand people. View all Get your own Picasa Web Albums – NavalLodge4 – Back to School [...]
#inaug09 wins Golden Dot Award
the Golden Dot Award from the Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet, at George Washington University. This year, the Twitter Vote Report and Inauguration Report, won the Best Mashup category. via Macsimum News – Twitter Vote Report wins Golden Dot Award.
Lost Remote is dead, long live Lost Remote
I’ve been blogging at lostremote.com for just about a decade. Lately, it has been harder and harder to contribute to it though, and the other group bloggers were in the same boat. Cory Bergman, lostremote’s founder, is now going to use the domain for a personal Tumblr feed. Lost Remote: The Business of Journalism — [...]
LEGO iMac G4 with working LCD – Boing Boing Gadgets
Ok, everyone knows I’m a total mac cultist and hackintosher (although i do windows and linux too), and I LOOOOOVE LEGO. One of my buzz quotes is that APIs and online content are like LEGO, you provide the pieces and your instructions, but you also allow creative people to make their own things as far [...]
Company Says It’s Found 1744 Wreck of Famed British Warship – NYTimes.com
New York Times article on the OMEX discovery of HMS Victory: Company Says It’s Found 1744 Wreck of Famed British Warship – NYTimes.com. I blogged a strong opinion piece on the media coverage of treasure hunting and shipwreck salvage companies yesterday over at LostRemote and received a barrage of negative comments and flames in my [...]
making movies at eastern market
so i swung by eastern market to pick up a bunch of dill on the way home tonight and bumped into a massive flim crew making a movie. there’s a camera atop port city java and and a chopper high above. i stuck a few more pics in my flickr account. they’d dressed the market [...]