Month: March 2005

Had a great time at the blawger (blawgger?) dinner last night. Special thanks to Tom Mighell, Dennis Kennedy and Matt Homann for putting it together, it was a great meal. Had a lot of fun meeting people who I only knew by name/URL — and even got to explain “tins” to a frequent reader of…

Picking Buzz up at the airport, then heading into town for the blawger dinner at the Catalyst Ranch. Rumor has it that Jake Parrillo and Evan Brown will be in attendance as well (representing DuPage County well!). I’m looking forward to seeing a number of others there tonight, should be fun. Update: Hoping the tornado…

As readers may recall, I’m on the ballot next week for Naperville Township Trustee. This qualifies as my first real taste of local politics. My integrity was questioned, the press got involved, and the Republicans end up looking like they’re playing petty politics… Update: The Republicans think I have good ideas! Or, more precisely: they…

Not that one, which has gone silent. Nope — a real, honest-to-goodness Senate blog. Just launched yesterday, rumor has it the Senator himself will be posting there. (Disclosure: I helped set up and maintain the original campaign blog. I have nothing to do with the Senate site.) FYI, in case anyone’s wondering: you can’t comment…

Great new group blog over at Corante, Between Lawyers, a veritable who’s who of leading lawyer/bloggers. Early posts look great, a definite must-have in the aggregator.

Via the Join Cross Blog, I saw this article at The Daily Southtown, which suggested that a picture with Barack Obama could help local candidates win… Well, why not?

Got a call from my father-in-law last night. He was unable to boot his Windows ME computer — the first clue to what it might be was that he’d installed two Windows Update patches the night before. Now it would boot, but would freeze during start-up. He’d see the cursor, but the PC would stop…

Lot of fun last night at the Red Door. Evan, OneMan (who promises he’ll emerge from his cloak of anonymity after the April 5 election), Mike, Kris and Stuart (no blog yet, but a podcast is in the works) were all there. Thanks to the guys for coming out — we’ll definitely be doing this…

Following on the heels of my near-death laptop experience last week, I committed to fixing my backup situation once and for all. I work from home, and we didn’t have a good back-up solution for either my PC or my wife’s. Though an external hard drive or a Linux box with a big hard drive…

David Weinberger, sharing a room with the Sifry brothers, confirms what the blogosphere already suspected about them. Isn’t blogging great? It’s like being a fly on the wall of the world. Or something. (For those that don’t know, David Sifry is the founder of Technorati, and Micah Sifry is the co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum,…