December 2009

Must Be The Hostilidays

December 16, 2009

Can’t decide what’s more disturbing. That Bob looks like a cross between Tom Petty and a dope-addled Hanson brother or the hipsters running around and smashing stuff to accordion musicks.  New adidas commercial? Tweet

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Recipe: Chana Masala

December 15, 2009

I have received three emails lately asking for my chana (garbanzo beans) masala recipe. Each time, I’ve responded by typing the ingredients and instructions from scratch. My family, like most families actually, doesn’t cook by recipe but by osmosis and eyeball. There’s a lot of “Yup, smells and feels right” and “That much mustard seed [...]

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Photo Of The Day

December 14, 2009

Universal Boulevard, Orlando, Florida Tweet

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The Google Toilet

December 14, 2009

The quarterly technical and planning committee meetings of the Open Geospatial Consortium are held at interesting global locations without fail. Like Athens (Greece, not Georgia) in March, MIT’s Stata Center in June and Darmstadt, Germany in September 2009. I just returned from the December meeting which was held at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. [...]

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Like Asking A Peeping Tom To Install Your Window Blinds

December 12, 2009

There are days when the decisions make themselves.  Today is one of them.  I’m going to give myself an EFF-xkcd shirt for Christmas. Google CEO Eric Schmidt holds forth on online privacy in a CNBC special on, surprise, Google. I think judgment matters.  If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe [...]

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Photo Of The Day

December 11, 2009

Virtusphere setup, I/ITSEC Orlando, November 2009 Tweet

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links for 2009-12-11

December 11, 2009

Secretary Napolitano Unveils “Virtual USA” Information-Sharing Initiative | DHS Integration, information sharing and interoperability across platforms for emergency services. All very important and good. Even if built on open-source, let's hope against technological lock-in. (tags: government GIS opensource interoperability technology information) White House Announces Open Government Directive | ExecutiveBiz What was up with federal CTO [...]

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The Story Of Cap And Trade

December 11, 2009

Blair sent me a great video on the real story behind emissions trading, a.k.a. Cap & Trade.  This scheme is effectively the environmental equivalent of the Great Bailout of Wall Street.  Trust and finance the folks who created the problem to fix the problem.  All to protect our lazy asses and the “free” market. The [...]

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links for 2009-12-10

December 10, 2009

How Much Money You'd Save By Skipping Christmas | Forbes.com On the one hand, making a shopping list of gifts. On the other, being a grinch because my tree isn't up yet. (Yes, my tree, ha ha ha.) (tags: christmas finance) Tweet

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