The northernmost band of Rita visited St. Louis this morning, stayed a while, dropped some rain, blew gently on some trees, and then went its way. I watched a squirrel outside my window as it came out from under a car and stopped when faced with a small river that flowed down the middle of […]
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Serenitygate
Knowing I’m a fan, Dave Rogers sent me an email on Friday pointing me to a Talking Points Memo post that discussed how to get press passes for an early screening of the upcoming. “Serenity”. All we had to do was send an email to Grace Hill Media and mention we were TPM readers. I sent the […]
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The top Sci-Fi shows
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Thanks to Slashdot for pointing out Boston.com’s top 50 Sci-Fi shows. Starting from the, urh, bottom: 50. “Earth Final Conflict” — I’m not sure I even remember this one. However, it was on television when I was right in the middle of the hottest part of my consulting and writing business; […]
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The clean industry
Doc Searls brings up a conversation that started when Mary Hodder wrote a post about having to use her Yahoo identity to log into her Flickr account. The tale is rather long and involved, but it seems that the cookie that maintained her Flickr identity was reset and she was given an opportunity to log in with either her […]
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The times that test us
I am hard at work trying to finish the last of my due and overdue projects. I attend the first of my Red Cross disaster training sessions next Wednesday and will most likely be deployed south as soon as I’m finished–where is anyone’s idea, but it could be Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, or Texas. If you […]