Category Archives: Friends, Family, Life

Calling all Philly Weblogers!!!!

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Let’s do a get together October 11th in Willow Grove.

The Sleeping Angel Fund is holding it’s second annual Beef & Beer. Sleeping Angels provides assistence, including memorial stones for parents who have lost a child and are experiencing fincancial difficulties.

The fund is driven by my brother and his wife who lost their son, Hunger James to SIDS, September 15th 2001.

I was there last year and I will be again helping out this year. There are two pics of me at that link if your curious. Won’t tell you which. You’ll just have to come.

A Canticle For Leibowitz

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I recently finished reading, for what will become the first time of many I hope, “A Canticle for Leibowitz” by Walter M. Miller. I tend to look at anything called “classic” with suspicion, but for once – the critics are right. If you like science fiction, or fantasy, or just love fiction that helps to expose the human condition – this book is for you in a big way.

It consists of three small, separate, but in order, stories that revolve around a monastery in a post-apocalyptic world. The first story takes place relatively near the event. Civilization no longer exists in a recognizable sense. A new dark age. Learned people are hunted down and killed. The second occurs during a time of renaissance and rediscovery (or new discovery as one of the characters thinks it is). The third in a new nuclear age, far more advanced then our own (they have starships and off-world colonies), with laws and organizations designed to prevent a new apocalypse. The story is told thru a set of characters you can’t help but care about.

At Slashdot there is a great book review and discussion thread.

A Nation Of Copiers?

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That is what John Leland asks if we are in this NYTimes article.

“The quintessential American company was Enron, which made nothing,” said Neal Gabler, author of “Life the Movie.” In today’s culture, he added, “the product is almost immaterial; it’s the consciousness about it.”

“What the Internet does is, it pries everything out of moral context and lets people feel knowing about it,” he said, because the skills used to cut and paste something with a computer are more valued than those used to manufacture it.

“In a sense, Internet technology is a metaphor for the new morality. As long as you can get it, it doesn’t matter how.”

Something Weblogs Are Great For

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For once I’ve read a passionate, thoughtful and non-flame infested discussion amongst diverse individuals, across weblogs. On religion! Whoda thunk it?

In truth, this says more about the webloggers participating then weblogging itself.

Actually, I just used the weblogging angle to get your attention 🙂

Now go enjoy the thought provoking reading (in what I believe to be in order of posting):

Joi Ito: The whole “there is only one God and my God is the best” thing…

Shelley Powers: Shinto Commandments?

Jonathon Delacour: You can put your god over there?

AKMA: On God(s)

Shelley Powers: Forgive them, they know what they do

David Weinberger: AKMA is a Christian

AKMA: On [Other People?s] Gods

Shelley Powers: On Belief

Shelley Powers: Belief and Acceptance

Now It Can Be Told

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I’m very happy to announce I’ve taken a position at Comcast as a software engineer. This could have been told a couple weeks ago, but I’m always respectful about sharing work matters and will continue to be so.

I can say, at least, that I’ve learned more in the past two weeks then I have in the past year and a half at Philly.com. Which is a shame really. I’m going to miss everyone, and will continue to be rooting for the journalists who, in the end, make everything happen there.

A new job, sinuses, and the ceiling comes down

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I’ve left Knight Ridder and have started work for another company. I need to find out what their policies are on personal sites, so I will leave it at that for now. But I am very happy and it is a great opportunity. With the job market the way it is, and with so many having difficult times, I know I’m blessed to still be on my feet.

For the past week I’ve been cursed with a nasty sinus cold. Won’t go away. Yuch!

And yesterday a leak that must have been going for a while underneath my first floor bathroom decided to make itself known in my finished basement (really our true living area). A quarter of the ceiling had to come down!

An eventful week and apoligies if I’ve been late answering emails.