Snowed in Thinking about Folksonomies
What could be cozier than to be snowed in on Green Lane with plenty of coffee, beer, food and a broadband connection? Watching CNN, while airports are closed down and weather forecasters pose with mufflers, gloves and shiny blue parkas. We are setting some kind of record here, I guess….well […]
Leapfrogging Technology
NPR had an excellent commentary on Friday about a man who just came back from the Tsunami zone. He was detailing some of the good that can ultimately come from the misery there. New technologies can be put in place to purify water, provide electricity, and provide work for the […]
Howard Hughes Horrors
Diving back into the Charles Higham biography of billionaire wacko Howard Hughes, I found this nugget. In 1953, when Hughes was planning one of his dreadful ’50s movies, “The Conqueror,” about the life of Genghis Khan, he decided to do the filming in the Nevada desert. At this same time, […]
Men’s and women’s brains are different. Found this on boingboing.net, a directory of wonderful things. Indeed! Here is more from the scientists explaining this fascinating photo: Gray matter represents information processing centers in the brain, and white matter represents the networking of – or connections between – these processing centers. […]
Blog Rolling Along
Just found this great list site that shows all of the blogs that have updated in the past 60 minutes…it is called fresh blogrolling. It was here that I read a blog by a woman from NC who used to live in WV named Jennifer. She’s a marketing person who […]
First Week as Veep
This week I started a new position as Vice President/Business Development for Airportparkingreservations.com. My business cards came and so it is official. It is all a part of my plan to stop driving two hours every day and to focus my attention fully on website work, which I love. I […]
Van Horn Ain’t Seen Nothin Like This
Jeff Bezos, Amazon ‘multibillionaire’ has big plans for Van Horn Texas. This tiny burg of 3000, smack dab on Interstate 20 in West Texas, is where he’s purchased 165,000 acres for his ranch. Seems Jeff grew up on his grandaddy’s ranch in South Texas, so he wants to show his […]
