Author: DXO
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To Panera Bread, With Love
Most of us vagabond laptop workers are highly aware of the fact that Panera Bread has free wi-fi in every one of their stores. On any given day, I am all over the city & suburbs meeting with clients, picking up my kids, sending documents, etc., and the mental geography of all the spacious, clean,…
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Open Source Emergency Response
Open Source Emergency Response is what I’m really after.
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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…
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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.
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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…