Author: DXO

  • Open Source Emergency Response

    Open Source Emergency Response is what I’m really after.

  • Meetings and Power

    As the former president of a Catholic elementary school board, and a member of this-and-that parish group, ad-hoc committee, and other community groups, I am pretty familiar with the inside of a meeting room. I am also pretty familiar with the idea of obsessively photographing obscure picture sets. That’s why I am taken in by…

  • Best Gossip Website Ever

    I recently found OH NO THEY DIDN’T!, a LiveJournal community site that has the flat-out best celebrity dirt on the internet. I recommend reading it through bloglines— less clicking, more pictures.

  • Get Rider-to-Rider CTA Service Alerts on Your Phone, SMS, or Email

    So my brother Kevin has a weblog called CTA Tattler. It has lots of readers and a pretty broad community of people interested in the daily live of the Chicago Transit Authority has formed there. The site get lots of action when there is a service interruption on the CTA– people log on after being frustrated after rough commutes…

  • Ignoring U.S., Chalabi Pursues Attempt to Fire Hussein Judge – New York Times

    By JOHN F. BURNS Published: July 27, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 26 – Aides to Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi said Tuesday that they planned to move forward with demands for the dismissal of the judge who has led the investigations of the mass killings committed under Saddam Hussein, ignoring American calls for restraint. Ali…