Obama’s Big Startup
TechDirt and Anil Dash each have interesting articles (link, link) about Aneesh Chopra and Vivek Kundra. Those are the guys that the new administration put in charge of overhauling the federal government’s IT infrastructure...
Random Ramblings from the Garrity Family
TechDirt and Anil Dash each have interesting articles (link, link) about Aneesh Chopra and Vivek Kundra. Those are the guys that the new administration put in charge of overhauling the federal government’s IT infrastructure...
The Opportunity rover is still chugging along after more than five years on Mars. Look what it recently discovered on its way to Endeavor crater. Yes, that’s a meteorite. It’s about 2 feet across...
Infinite Summer (which I mentioned earlier) is sort of an online book club which is reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest this summer. I don’t want to spoil the book if you haven’t read...
Every evening outside the house we’re renting, there are a number of people standing on the reef blowing up party balloons and throwing them into the water. It turns out they’re fishing. Malmok reef...
Last night and tonight, we all sat out on the beach and watched for meteors. It’s time for the Perseids. It’s really nice and dark here on Aruba, but we weren’t very successful. We...
There’s not going to be a lot of posts for a while, because we’re here: View Larger Map We’ll tell you all about it when we get back. Until then, there’s not going to...
Since the presidential election, there’s been a lot of action on making it easier for the public to get information about what the government is doing. For examples, check out Data.gov, Sunlight Labs, and...
I just finished reading The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton. It’s an interesting exploration of what makes good architecture work, and why so much architecture doesn’t work. The last chapter is really...
Another band concert last night. It was a beautiful night for it, and the band sounded great … … but Tom and Pete spent most of the concert way in the back, whittling.