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01/20 HOPE — It Chris and I, this morning, looking forward to a great day. We’ve waited and worked for this. And now the day has come. I saw the inauguration communally on a big screen at the Regent Theater in Arlington with hundreds of other cheering folks. It was a fun and exciting event. People even stood up for the actual oath of office. Quite something!
01/14 More on Steve Jobs — Breaking news from CNN: “Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes leave until end of June; Jobs says health issues “more complex than I originally thought.”
01/11 Madoff Scammed His Sister, Too! — Check out this post Madoff Scammed His Sister, Too!: > "A division has appeared in the Madoff family: Those who invested all their money with Bernie (such as his now wiped-out sister)…and those who didn’t (including his sons Mark and Andrew and his brother Peter). Forgive us for tentatively concluding that the Madoff family members who didn’t lose their shirts on the scam knew or suspected that something was going on." (from: from Clusterstock) …
01/07 30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions — Check this post 30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions from Mashable!: > We’ve put together a list of 30+ must-have Firefox 3 extensions that we know you’ll enjoy, whether you’ve upgraded to Firefox 3 and are looking for something new to add to your browser, or have yet to make the upgrade and are looking for a reason.  Lots of good stuff there if you are a FireFox 3 user. Check ’em out! Originally posted on Jun 27, 2008. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
12/31 Remember to change your clocks tonight —
“Revelers will have an extra second to enjoy the New Year celebrations. Drunken party goers may not notice but, thanks to the Earth’s erratic rotation, the countdown to 2009 will last a moment longer. British physicists and official timekeepers around the world will insert a “leap second” to bring the most accurate atomic clocks in line with the astronomical day[…]” from Big Ben Adjusted for Leap Second Happy New Year. Bon Anja, Tur Kos Bon!
12/26 Dumb as we want to be? — Thomas Friedman with another thought provoking column. I know not everyone likes his perspective but I find myself in violent agreement more often than not: > “All I could think to myself was: If we’re so smart, why are other people living so much better than us? What has become of our infrastructur...
12/24 The most beautiful book? — Now here‘s a recommendation: > “I recently got a hold of what I consider to be the nicest mathematical book in my collection. As a matter of fact, it’s the nicest book I own, period – even though I posses bookshelves teaming with terrific titles on mathematics, science, programming, computer science, photography and so on.” (from Math-Blog) That goes right onto my wish list!
12/23 Is twitter for people or for marketing? — As you may have noticed, I am using Twitter a little more often now. As much as anything it is to learn more about what it’s like, because we are working on full Twitter support in BlogBridge, which should be cool. The question is, what should i...
12/20 MINT and security — I have a new favorite web service: Mint. It’s a really nice implementation of kind of a “Quicken” online, but with a few unique wrinkles. Here’s what it does: - Automatically and periodically downloads all the transactions from all your various accounts, banks, credit cards...
12/19 Support Club Passim in Harvard Square!!! — Hey! If you live in Boston or Cambridge, and you like music, especially Folk music, then you’ve probably been to Club Passim in Cambridge – Harvard Square actually. It’s a lot more than a ‘Coffee House’ – it’s an institution where many of your favorite 70s acts got ...
12/18 More on truly weird medical condition — Suddenly when you learn about something once, you start seeing it everywhere… > “Dr. Paul Grabb, a pediatric brain surgeon, said he was surprised when he discovered a small foot growing inside the brain of 3-day-old Sam Esquibel. “The foot literally popped out ...
12/17 A Craigslist for Service? — Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is the need for some kind of platform to match local community projects with resources to do them. For example the project might be to build a playground, clear a lot, raise money for the school. And resources might be sources of money, people and thin...