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June 7th, 2015 - 7:39 am § in Uncategorized

“The internet wasn’t designed for this”

We’ve recently been inundated with reports of data breaches, and the latest is a doozy: More than 4 million present and former federal employees had their personal information stolen by anonymous hackers possibly working for China’s military. As a CNN guest columnist puts it, not exactly[...]

June 3rd, 2015 - 9:02 am § in Misc.

Municipal Broadband in Seattle ?

Municipal Broadband in  Seattle Municipal Broadband Lunch and Learn  Impact HUB SeattleJun 17, 2015 12:00 PM  Bertha Knight Landes Room at Seattle City Hall  Jun 18, 2015 12:00 PM Christopher Mitchell is a national expert on community networks and approaches, having authored the most in-depth c[...]

February 26th, 2015 - 1:08 pm § in Politics

FCC Vote: Net Neutrality Wins!

The good guys won the epic fight for control of the internet. It still belongs to us. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler called today’s historic 3-2 vote in favor of net neutrality an “irrefutable reflection of the principle that no one — whether government or corporate — should contr[...]

January 27th, 2015 - 11:57 pm § in Misc.

PHOTOGRAPHY: End of an era

Sports Illustrated lays off last remaining staff photographers sports-photography  Jan 23, 2015 at 20:04 On the eve of the Super Bowl, legendary US-based sports publication ‘Sports Illustrated’ has laid off its remaining six full-time staff photographers. According to Sports Illustrated[...]

December 16th, 2014 - 11:37 pm § in The Ave Scene

CRAVE Blog .. recognizes PI.COM as major site for photojournalism

Seattle PI.com showcases its ‘pictures of the year’ Dec 14, 2014 at 13:10 Seattle PI.com, formerly the Seattle Post Intelligencer, was the first major metropolitan newspaper in the USA to go online-only. Since then, the website has gained a reputation for high-quality photojournalism, co[...]

December 15th, 2014 - 12:38 pm § in Schools & Colleges

“I teach at a University, you a–hole. What do you do?”

  ……Not anymore, she doesn’t. It turns out FSU doesn’t actually have a policy against faculty posting social media rants. And ex-FSU lecturer Deborah O’Connor wasn’t fired; as she told a Tallahassee newspaper, she was merely “encouraged” to resign. Sh[...]

October 16th, 2014 - 12:51 pm § in Misc.

An Offer To Pass on

 from the SPAM   Dearest one, Thanks for your attention and I pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval. My name is Miss Rebecca Gross and i humbly write to solicit for your partnership and assistance in the transfer and investment of my inheritance funds $10,500,000.00 f[...]

February 4th, 2014 - 8:25 am § in The Ave Scene

What is a VECTON?

 WHAT IS A VECTON? The creativity of companies naming things is awesome.  Now, an Israeli company. seems to have sold a super radar oven as something new.  Is this hype? The company calls itself “Goji” as in the goji berries. I first heard about this from my brother Hugh who had an ex[...]

February 9th, 2011 - 2:10 am § in Uncategorized

Yemen: They are the Egyptian days.

excerpt from a post by Ghassan Charbel, in Dar al Hayat, commenting on Yemen (translated) Two years ago, I asked the president about the difficulty of ruling in Yemen, and he replied that “it resembles dancing on serpent heads”. A year ago, I asked the same question, and he answered: “The serp[...]