Year: 2005

On the road for a few days, posting is light. As Linda Richman would say, “Tawk amongst ya’ selves.”

In today’s Chicago Tribune: “Every year they make the same proposal and some of it is just ideological,” Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said today in Chicago. “It strikes me that we should make a greater investment in upgrading our rail system rather than eliminating the subsidies that already exist.” More on this here.

Will notes that Style.org has some incredibly neat pages that show different ways of visualizing data. I agree. Kudos to Will, who poked around after I pointed out the attempt at determining the airspeed of an African swallow (unladen, migratory) and found a few other gems. Style.org is the work of 13pt, where Jonathan Corum…

Maybe it’s because it’s Valentine’s Day, but I saw this story and instead of thinking, “My, airports really aren’t safe”, I instead thought, “Wow – dating sure has changed.” The jokes pretty much write themselves.

Two days after the Red Sox historic sweep in last year’s World Series, I said only half-jokingly to a friend, “I think there’s still a way they could lose this thing.” It was a similar feeling to one I had over the past few days… could Howard Dean really be the next DNC chair? It…

This is tough: the Bush budget proposes eliminating Amtrak’s federal subsidy entirely (it’s currently at $1.2b). This would probably push Amtrak into bankruptcy, and result in the elimination of long-haul rail travel throughout much of the United States. Now, this is a perennial budget target, and the MSNBC article linked above suggests that Amtrak will…

We released the latest version of our hosted product yesterday, Workspace 1.5. Eweek includes a few more details about the release.

Just got back from Barack Obama’s “listening” event at North Central College. Pfeiffer Hall at NCC was packed, with a good mix of students and residents. Barack got a standing ovation from the auditorium, which he seemed genuinely appreciative of. He took questions for about 45 minutes; the original plan was to stay longer, but…

Over at his website, Simon Rosenberg has announced: Effective today, I am ending my campaign for chair of the Democratic National Committee. I am grateful for the opportunity I have had to share my vision with Democrats around the country, and I remain encouraged by the depth and thoughtfulness DNC members have brought to this…

Barack Obama will be in town on Monday, part of his multi-city “listening tour” throughout Illinois. It’s great to see him spending a ton of time in Illinois.