Month: May 2005

A while back I read Getting Things Done by David Allen, and was very impressed with the concepts. Nothing earth-shattering, but a good combination of discipline and common sense that helped you manage your day-to-day to-dos. Like many who’ve read it, I found a few keys in the system (especially the Brother P-Touch + manila…

… A new Emily Lord CD, “Brand New Day”. Emily just recently chaired Mamapalooza in San Francisco, and she’ll be in New York in a few weeks at the NY Mamapalooza event. Emily graduated from Notre Dame with my brother, then served active duty in the military for a number of years before committing to…

Arianna Huffington’s new group blog launched today. Looks like it’s worth subscribing (feed options here.)

My favorite movie reviewer since 1993 (when I read his reviews on rec.arts.movie-reviews), James Berardinelli, really liked Revenge of the Sith. I got almost nothing out of the last two — it’d be fun to have this one be better. Eleven days and counting…

Remember that weather I wrote about back in March? For whatever reason, the Technorati watch list I have running on the word “Naperville” just turned up a great picture of the storm as it rolled into town.

I gave the new Google Web Accelerator a try the other day without really stopping to think about it. Of my many complaints about computing, slow loading web pages is not at the top of the list. In 1996? Sure, you bet. That 56kbps dial-up connection to Earthlink seemed fast for about an hour, then…

Thanks to peacenik (the nickname at del.icio.us for this person), we have our first “community” links in the sidebar back at the website. What are community links? Instead of managing a blogroll, I have two different lists of links on my homepage — one is managed by Technorati and includes the last 25 sites who’ve…

Interesting: a tech growth fund managed by a family in Naperville, IL: Calamos Growth  is the largest fund run by Calamos Asset Management Inc., based in Naperville, Ill. Tech Dose Information  [Technorati] naperville   “Assets have swelled 64 percent from $8.5 billion a year ago and have more than tripled during the past two years.…

Woke up last night to a call from my in-laws; my wife’s 96 year-old grandmother died at the age of 96. The woman was a force to be reckoned with who lived life on her terms and ensured we all knew where we belonged. I first met her at the family “camp” in Maine nearly…

Just finished reading Ragtime Blues in today’s Chicago Tribune. What a powerful article: Reginald Robinson, a drop-out from inner-city Chicago holed up in his bedroom and taught himself to play ragtime piano, and emerged just a few years later as a genius piano player who could evoke the ghost of Scott Joplin while composing original…