Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Explaining Europe, 1991
Warning: this is a very graphic post describing a terrible accident scene. Please consider if you really want to read it. In 1991, in the continuing upheavals after the fall of Communism and all that jazz, the country known as "Yugoslavia" ceased to exist. This was a place in the center of Europe. A place…
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We are earthlings
Today my President made a speech in Africa about people on this planet cooperating with each other. Rod Serling would have been proud. We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written. The Holy Koran…
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Chicago Backs Up 911
Fran Spielman has the story: City quietly builds backup 911 site at O’Hare Airport :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: City Hall Amid cloak-and-dagger secrecy, the Daley administration is building a backup 911 center at O’Hare Airport to handle emergency calls if a terrorist attack or natural disaster damages Chicago’s primary facility in the West Loop, City…
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Demolition Hold List
A public website exposing architecturally significant buildings in Chicago in danger of being demolished (or are already gone).
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The never-ending quest for interoperability |Reality Check | Ephraim Schwartz | InfoWorld
The never-ending quest for interoperability |Reality Check | Ephraim Schwartz | InfoWorld From the Pony Express to tools for the intelligence community, it’s still about aggregating and recognizing patterns in data