From the monthly archives: April 2007

Coworkers/Home Workers Town Meeting in Carrboro

By On April 27, 2007 · 1 Comment

Do you work at home? Are you a telecommuter? Run a business from your home office? The Town of Carrboro wants to know how it can help you. On May 8 at 10 am in room 100 of the Carrboro Town Hall the Economic Development Department of the Town of Carrboro will be conducting [...]

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Darth Vader Speaks

By On April 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment

This just cracks me up!

Raw text from above image to get google cached:

Wondering how its possible that, according to Kenobi, I somehow betrayed and murdered… myself. He always was an old coot. 6 minutes ago from twitterrific Darth Vader

Man am I a Star Wars dork… really only love [...]

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Buying the War

By On April 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Bill Moyers has a great new piece called Buying the War. All the video is online here. I’ve only gotten through chapter one but I can already tell how very important this documentary is. History will be kind to the view that the main stream media was hoodwinked by the Bush administration. What [...]

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Presidential Candidate Fakesters?

By On April 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Fred Stutzman has a interesting post on Tech President about Democratic Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John Edwards using Twitter. (I learned about his post via Twitter actually.)

Now, I’ll gladly apologize if I’m wrong on this, but it appears that Mr. Obama didn’t write his first Twitter. There’s just something patently un-senatorial [...]

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Twitter in NYT and my thoughts

By On April 24, 2007 · Leave a Comment

From Many Tweets, One Loud Voice on the Internet

My thoughts…. Twitter is very useful for keeping up with people you care about. The tweets may be trivial to some but gold to others. As long as it continues to be useful, fun, and cheap I’ll use it.

Sadly right now trying to put [...]

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Chapel Hill Town Council Receives WiFi Report

By On April 24, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Cross posted from Orange Networking:
Last night the Chapel Hill Town Council received a report from the Chapel Hill Connectivity Working Group. (PDF) See the meetings agenda here. It contained very similar information the Town Technology board provided in a presentation last [...]

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Apologies aren’t enough

By On April 19, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Wonderful and inspiring article/interview with John Hope Franklin in this weeks Indy: John Hope Franklin: Apologies aren’t enough.

But one has to wonder how far apologies will go in righting past wrongs. Is it the scab that, left unbothered, will heal wounds, or is it merely a quick-fix Band-Aid, slapped on to make the [...]

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Thinking about the People of Blacksburg and Virginia Tech

By On April 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment

In 1992 Mathias drove me to Blacksburg for a Halloween party. That was one of the best weekends of my life. I cried on the way home to Richmond because I hated to leave. Most of the thanks for that heavenly few days is due to Mathaias Leppitsch. But meeting Ronda was also a really [...]

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No Power

By On April 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment

We still don’t have electricity at home. Its been out now since 10am Monday. Ruby telecommutes from home so she’s a digital nomad today.

Yesterday evening we saw what may be the cause of our power outage. A big ole’ electrical pole has snapped off at the top. The only thing keeping it off the [...]

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May peace be restored to Blacksburg

By On April 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I’m really sad to hear about the shooting deaths in Blacksburg, VA on the campus of Virginia Tech. I’ve read that 33 people have been killed.

I lived there for many years and love the place. Maybe I’ll blog more thoughts tonight. Right now I just gota process it all…

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