Low clouds rolling into Chicago
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I'm staying in the Hyatt on Wacker St. (the name always makes me giggle) to deliver trainings through Friday. This is a shot of the lobby. Nice hotel, good location!
Insider perspective on the deceptive, greed-driven impetus behind the health insurance-led opposition to improving health care for everyone. Should infuriate you ... if you're not too politically ensnared to still care about someone other than yourself.
My old college roommate loves making and playing games. Today, I watched him play an alien/space game (the pic) and helped him test a new game he created based on combat in Vietnam.
I've been playing with Twitter, Facebook, and Posterous and their various "auto-post" features. Right now, Twitter should update my Facebook status. Posterous should auto-post to Twitter and put something in my news feed on Facebook. But if Posterous is posting to Twitter, and Twitter is updating my Facebook status, then won't Posterous really be updating my Facebook status, too? Sometimes, I don't know why I bother!
So, this is a test. If you see this in 17 different places, I apologize!
There are much larger concerns in the world, so I realize how silly the following is in certain contexts. Still ...
I wonder how long it will take for the necessary online collaboration
to line up and give us what most of us want: an easy way to keep tasks,
calendars, contacts, and email organized and connected on multiple
platforms. You know, so you don't have to create a separate task when
an email comes in that involves something "to do" ... or create a
separate calendar entry for tasks with due dates so it will show up on
all the places you access your calendar ... or keep birthdays and
anniversaries tied to both the contact and the calendar (and maybe the
to-do list) ... and be able to access all of that through one interface
(or a reasonable number of mobile apps).
Just wondering.
As is, I keep dates on Google Calendar, tasks on Toodledo (so they'll
sync with my iPhone through an app that isn't network-dependent),
contacts in Google (but without calendar connections yet), and email
living in a separate world entirely. And I'll only mention the far-off
dream about being able to connect contacts, events, and media in some
meaningfully useful way.
I mean, I love many of the "new" toys and tools that keep popping up,
but I don't get why no one has figured out how to get these basics
working well together. Not even the "dead simple" cult of Mac has
figured this one out, judging by the critiques of MobileMe. And as cool
as Google Wave looks, it still doesn't look like the answer.
Can you tell I've been upgrading my iPhone this morning?
</rant>
I stitched together the various video clips I took from the shark cage when we were in Hawaii (off the North Shore of Oahu with Hawaii Shark Encounters). Not great underwater shooting most of the time, but it does have a few good captures and gives a decent sense of their size and what it was like in the cage.
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