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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CTA Needs to get All GPS-y
No reason why they can’t publish real-time info on everything.
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Yeltsin Dead
AP coverage. Here’s a poem I wrote 13 years ago.Yeltsin appears in the apartment of the poet. Yeltsin’sbeen drinking. He pours another. The poem itself isread in a hoarse whisper, like Roddy McDowellin “Planet of the Apes” The Scolding of Yeltsin Alright:How often does the sun come up over the hill?At what point, exactly, does…
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Good Things Happen When Simple Tools Are Released in the Wild
Here’s a good take on why MySpace works. The same thing applies to all the other emerging stand-alone tools mentioned below. O’Reilly Radar > “remove the web developer and the web gets developed” In short, it seems that while many people thought of “blogging” as a thing that was understood and more or less set,…
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Cellphone Micro Fund-Raising is a Good Idea
The idea of sending microdonations to the Red Cross in times of disaster is a great idea. If you want to donate $5, along you have to do is send a text message to 24357 and it happens automatically. “Consumer group” Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights has a problem with it because it doesn’t…
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Imus, Corzine, and Unintended Consequences
N.J. governor critical after SUV crash AP – 1 hour, 21 minutes ago CAMDEN,N.J. – Gov. Jon S. Corzine was in critical condition Friday butexpected to recover after his SUV crashed into a guard rail whileheading to a meeting between Don Imus and the Rutgers women’sbasketball team.