Year: 2005

I’m presenting at next week’s KM Chicago meeting, talking about Socialtext, social software, and where this is all heading. The meeting is Tuesday, February 8, from 5-7pm. Also, next month I’ll be joining fellow legal bloggers Ernie, Dennis, Tom, Ron Sabrina, Jeff and several others (I’m sure I’m leaving a bunch out) at TechShow. I’m…

Kevin Kuwik notes today that turnout in Mosul was higher than expected, and he ate the first meal in the dining tent that replaced the one destroyed by a suicide bomber in December.

Ernie: “I’m just like a real journalist: getting recognition for being an expert in something that I barely understand.”

Been really busy with work stuff the past few weeks, and have been pretty silent on the local political scene. I find it interesting that Illinois Democratic Party Chair Mike Madigan is now on the record as endorsing Howard Dean. (Kind of late to the party, but better late than never: on Monday, he was…

Some of the best writing I’ve come across over the past month has been Eric Liu’s columns over at Slate. Some of the columns are drawn from his book published late last year, Guiding Lights : The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life, which only means I’m going to pick up my…

Ernie just set up a blog for his friend Steve, diagnosed with cancer. Steve seems to have a great attitude about the diagnosis and treatment. When my friends Dave & Elise’s daughter was diagnosed with leukemia last year, they set up a blog to let us all know how she was doing. It was great…

Paperwork is now filed, I’m officially a candidate for Naperville trustee. I’ll keep the campaign stuff over on that site, so feel free to keep tabs on what I’m up to over there. Thanks for all the positive feedback I’ve received so far — and to those who’ve already contributed, thank you!

I noticed in the last week or two that Firefox was often consuming a lot of my laptop’s RAM. Even though I have half a gig of RAM on this machine, Firefox was often grabbing most of the available RAM, causing other applications to occasionally stall, or at least cause the system to slow down…

Loved these gems from Jenny: An email message I received today from the Head of Adult Services at my local library: “I recently set up an AIM screen name for the reference desk, with the aim (ha!) of publicizing our IM availability soon. We haven’t told anyone about it yet. Nothing on the website, no…

I’m very disappointed, but I won’t be at today’s Blogwalk Chicago after all. It’s still snowing pretty good out here in Naperville — we received 6-8” overnight — and forecasts have it keeping up most of the day. My favorite snippet from the forecast: “Winds will also start to pick up…and will be gusting to…