September 19, 2007: Homework

I originally missed posting for today and it took me until Saturday to remember why.  Today was my Java homework day.  I got home from the office and spent every available minute working on my Java homework for RIT.  It took me until just before midnight to wrap it up.  But I think that it …

Big Office Suite Day

Today is a big day in the “free” office suite software world. The first big news is that OpenOffice 2.3 has been released. You can get your free copy from OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice is the leading open source software suite and the most serious contender in the productivity software space against Microsoft’s own suite. IBM officially …

September 18, 2007: Under the Bed Totes

Hopefully the fleas are all gone today. What a mess the house is. Everything that was in our bedroom is now sitting in the hallway so that there would be room for Dominica to clean. Min and I are back on our usual schedules this morning which means me getting up at five in the …

The Social Web and the “Reconnection Generation”

Each generation faces unique challenges and a varying landscape of social interaction. In the last several hundred years we have seen these changes happen at a pace hitherto unknown in human history. During the nineteenth century reliable high speed steam transportation gave people, for the first time, the ability to send mail and parcels long …