The Republican dictatorship. Buzzflash interviews California Rep Pete Stark on how the Republicans have been dismantling hundreds of years of US government process.  [Ceejbot]

Micro-business series. David St. Lawrence, author of the blog Ripples and the book Danger Quicksand – Have a Nice Day, has posted the first entry in a series on starting a micro-business. I have been reading David’s work for quite some time and he always has something insightful and interesting to say. I’m looking forward… Continue reading Micro-business series

Business for Geeks. Sean Mountcastle has posted his notes from the recent Business for Geeks tutorial at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. The talk was given by Marc Hedlund, O’Reilly’s entrepreneur in residence. Marc appeared to really push the microISV concept of starting small, keeping your day job, and bootstrapping but that only scratches the… Continue reading Business for Geeks

A Fourth Generation Warrior AP. Lt. Col. Bradley Becker, from Sacramento CA, commands the 2nd Battalion of the 8th Artillery Regiment. He is also a fourth generation warrior. His approach includes: Town Hall meetings: About six people showed up for the first meeting early this year – but the latest, on Tuesday, drew about 300.… Continue reading A Fourth Generation Warrior

NYT OP-ED #1. Tom Friedman started his op-ed piece in today's New York Times by suggesting that he'd run for office on a one-issue platform: He'd promise to make America's cell phone service as good as Ghana's. Friedman points out that our technological infrastructure is actually falling behind the rest of the world—in addition to… Continue reading NYT OP-ED #1

08/03 Symphony OS Alpha 4 [DistroWatch.com: Distributions]

An Amazing Printer Set-Up Utility. If you have a laptop computer and you join a new network (usually a wireless one) it would be nice to be able to immediately use any of the printers on that network.  In theory, you can.  In practice, you usually have to 'set up the printer' by means of… Continue reading An Amazing Printer Set-Up Utility

Information Anxiety – Remember what you forget.  As I continue to re-read Information Anxiety (by Richard Saul Wurman) I continue to realize what an important book this is.  Teachers should especially read this book. Here's a provocative passage that applies to the teachers: The most universal information trap is the one that inevitably occurs when… Continue reading Information Anxiety – Remember what you forget

Spent most of the past week working on a project for a client in Ohio.  Got back Saturday around 2:30am.  Trying to get caught up now.

Three women who inspire me. I was just thinking back on my conference experiences. I helped on the first VBITS conference (now it's the VSLive conference). At that one, about 10 years ago, there were 428 attendees. Only two women. One was Deborah Kurata. We hired her to speak (at least in part because of… Continue reading Three women who inspire me