Jarrett House NorthSecond verse, same as the first.

I read Dave Winer’s post about Wikipedia edits with some interest, particularly the part about his edits to the RSS topic, a topic which has been politicized in the past. He writes: Then I decided to look at the RSS page to see if it linked to the RSS 2.0 spec. It didn’t, so I [...]

House in Progress: National Rebuilding Day. Very cool concept, a bit like the home renovation version of Habitat for Humanity. See the national site of Rebuilding Together for more details. Matthew Kirschenbaum has updates on the status of his forthcoming book, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, which is listed as publishing next January. [...]

Oy indeed. If I have too many more weeks like this, I’ll plotz. Dave Brubeck, “Her Name is Nancy” (So What’s New?) Little Milton, “Grits Ain’t Groceries” (Oxford American Southern Music CD 2003) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, “In This Home on Ice” (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) Tori Amos, “Angie” (Crucify EP) Rob Wasserman, [...]

I once again have an opening for a pre-sales engineer at my firm, iET Solutions. Details on our website and on Craigslist. We’re a pretty exciting place to be right now—a consistently profitable company in the IT Service Management and CMDB space. Not only are we growing, we’re also making some big product investments, so [...]

If, like me, you live and die by Webex, you might have been as frustrated as I was to find that the Outlook add-in for Webex (which allows you to schedule online meetings right from your Outlook calendar) doesn’t install on Outlook 2007. I was quite surprised to find this, actually, since I had happily [...]

Christopher O’Riley is on a roll. Recently he has parlayed his successful public radio gig into a public television gig; he also has two Radiohead transcription albums and one Elliott Smith transcription album under his belt. Now comes his latest transcription album, Second Grace: The Music of Nick Drake. And for better or worse it’s [...]

Via BoingBoing, an amazingly obsessive recreation and imagination of Bag End, Bilbo Baggins’s home, in miniature. Eight rooms and countless tiny knick-knacks, all to scale for tiny hobbit action figures. Boston Globe: The bell at Old South Church to toll 33 times. A somber reminder that as Christians we are supposed to care about the [...]

I turned on the iPod this morning, and the song that was playing was Lyle Lovett’s “Since the Last Time”: I went to a funeral Lord it made me happy Seeing all those people I ain’t seen Since the last time Somebody died And I decided, you know, I should really listen to something else [...]

…regarding the Cluetrainfulness of the Blue State Digital folks vs. Salesforce.com’s campaign management toolkit. Does what Blue State Digital enables count as what Doc Searls calls vendor relationship management? After all, it’s about voters taking the process into their own hands and starting to drive the campaign activities of candidates that interest them. Looked at [...]

CNet: Salesforce.com throws its hat into political ring. Salesforce.com, already a player in the online CRM market, is marketing a custom edition of its application to manage political campaigns. Web software as a service in the political market? Sounds a lot like the business plan of Blue State Digital, right? Except of course that it’s [...]

(Courtesy Kevin Inman, courtesy Tin Man.) I think that, today, we are all Hokies.

We got a bunch of rain with the Nor’easter that roared through Sunday and Monday. Did it bug us? Did it float our possessions, the way the rain last May did? Reader, it did not. Instead, here’s what happened: Sunday was uneventful. Monday, Lisa went downstairs and reported that the sump pump had kicked on [...]

CNN: Chief: Gunman kills at least 21 at Virginia Tech. How horrible. While I attended the other Virginia university, I know the Virginia Tech campus pretty well, having gone to a summer program there. I believe we lived at Ambler-Johnston Hall, where the first round of shootings took place. My heart goes out to those [...]

Click, but don’t adjust your set: Tyler, Smilin’. Yup, as in the Tyler. Seems he’s gettin’ hitched. I can hardly wait to go down to C-Ville and meet the missus. And that’s not all: check out Tyler’s bands Bucks and Gallants, Draw the Kitten, Grand Banks…

File under amusing: the debate team of Hamilton College challenged UVA’s Washingotn and Jefferson Societies to a debate over whose Founding Father was coolest. Heh. Knowing a few graduated members of the Jeff and the Wash, all I can say is, I hope the Hamilton team is prepared to eat crow. And of course, to [...]