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Haley’s Earthday Poem - Age 7

Posted in Family and Friends, How 'bout that on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »

I am the World
Take care of me.
Be nice to me.
Do not litter on my ground.
Care for me.
Take care of my animals and plants.
Compost, it is cool to see the worms.
I want to live so you can live too.
I am a big part of you
So take care of me.
I do a lot of things for you.
Water [...]

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Power to the servers?

Posted in How 'bout that on March 14, 2008 | No Comments »

I heard a statistic recently that blew my mind:
According to a recently published study by Jon Koomey of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the nation’s servers utilize about 0.6 percent of the electricity for the entire country. When accounting for cooling and other support infrastructure, the amount consumed by servers and data centers doubles to [...]

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Pacific NW | Overwhelmingly white, the green movement is reaching for the rainbow | Seattle Times Newspaper

Posted in How 'bout that on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This is vision; this is leadership. Count me in!
“The Prius people, the polar-bear crowd are great,” Jones says. “We’re not mad at them. We like them! At the same time, if the only people who can participate are the kind who can afford to put solar panels on their second home, the green movement is [...]

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No more compressed air

Posted in How 'bout that, Tools & Techniques on May 1, 2007 | No Comments »

It’s not easy being a green geek. Sightline points out that the little canister of compressed air might blow the dust away, but it leaves a plum of hydro fluorocarbon for our atmosphere to have to take in. I wonder how many trees I would have to plant to offset my use of a single [...]

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Can Technology Solving the Collective IQ Problem?

Posted in How 'bout that, Tools & Techniques on March 5, 2007 | No Comments »

I just read an interesting article about web 3.0. There are a number of really interesting points that it uncovers and points out. Reading this article made me realize how valuable meta data is when you look at the value of information across a broad group of people.
Reading the article also made me wonder what [...]

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Sound

Posted in How 'bout that, Tools & Techniques on March 2, 2007 | No Comments »

Okay, so the poor woman at the NRCC was having a problem with an echo. I have now fixed the problem by using the following setting to record the call. I think I’ll call them back and try to get them to admit that they won’t let me be a winner without a donation.
Skype
Audio Out [...]

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The NRCC goes REALLY LOW!

Posted in Business Advisory Council Scam, How 'bout that on February 27, 2007 | No Comments »

I received a call today from a campaign financed by the National Republican Congressional Committee. Now, back in the days before the national no call list, I remember getting sleazy calls from time to time, but this may just take the prize for the sleaziest call I have ever received. As it turns out, according [...]

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Ted Stevens is an idiot

Posted in How 'bout that on February 27, 2007 | No Comments »

Here’s the newest from Sen. Ted Stevens, the man who described the Internet as a series of tubes: It’s time for the federal government to ban access to Wikipedia, MySpace, and social networking sites from schools and libraries.

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Helping People be Who They Are

Posted in How 'bout that on February 26, 2007 | No Comments »

A friend of mine recently pointed me to the architect who was the generous behind the store Anthropology. Turns out I have had my head in the sand for a while, Ron Pompei has been in the press for years, but finding him has been a breath of fresh air as I think about how [...]

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