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It’s February 2, 2007.
And it’s finally flippin’ snowing.
Here’s the proof.
Technorati tags: snow, massachusetts, z612, GIMP, photo manipulation, february, 2007
Summer is officially over. Our neighborhood is now an emptying parking lot as the City of Marlborough begins to recover from the Annual Labour Day Parade.
All of the usual floats and groups were there — in fact, the order is almost predictable now.
Machine gun fire is echoing from one of the floats. It seems that the [...]
This post has two underlying reasons for existing: 1) to test out the new MSFT Live Writer Beta; and 2) to talk about a great story that GigaOm pointed us to today.
Om Malik pointed out a story in the Seattle Times today that talked about “Broadband in the Boonies”. Having grown up in the boonies [...]
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18 Jul 2006It’s just about noon and the temperature is racing towards 95F.
The humidity is high enough that the dog went for a swim, not a walk this morning.
The atmosphere is currently: 80% Nitrogen, 19% Pollution, and 1% Oxygen.
I am trying to imagine why so many people want to live here.
Technorati Tags: massachusetts, heat, humidity, east coast, [...]
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15 Jul 2006In Canada, the norm is to have a community recreation centre, usually with a pool, an arena and a curling rink.
In the parts of the US where we have lived, community pools are almost unheard of. Private fitness clubs are the only places with pools, other than private homes.
This explains why my seven year-old still [...]
We have survived the wedding. Actually, I make it sound like it was a trial, but it was, in fact, a rather pleasant experience, even for an introvert such as myself. Beautiful setting out at Starling Lane Winery (I highly recommend the Blackberry Port).
Being in Victoria and area has reminded all of us why we [...]
Patrick McGoohan created the amazing character of “Number Six” a year before I was born. But sitting here in my beautiful home in Massachusetts, I understand the feelings that the character must have experienced.
The premise, for those who don’t know the show, is that Number Six is a top agent for an unnamed spy agency [...]
CCUCEO has a great take on the arrival of the Imagination Age.[here]
The Minimum Wage Class is the result. In some cases, people fall into this group as a place to start when they arrive.
In other places, like here in Massachusetts, it is almost carried like a badge of honour to just scrape by.
And then there [...]
In: smp
3 Oct 2005Ok, huge title for this little gem.
Next Up: Google Office?
Oh…I can feel the pain in Redmond tonight.
Steve, I hope your platinum parachute is packed well. I have a feeling the board may start asking for your head.
And the Massachusetts’ decison to go with OpenOffice/StarOffice looks to be not so weird.
Thinking About the Effects and Reform of Higher (Cost) Education
In: Commentary
10 Aug 2008In Massachusetts, the latest user-generated crisis has centered around the evaporation of low-cost student loans due to the credit crunch. Families are scrambling to find ways to pay for their children’s university and college education, surprised by this sudden disappearance of what had been seen as a very deep well.
I am not here to comment [...]