I said yesterday that my personal life was limiting the time I could spend online – and that’s a good thing. I just got home from the first Sleeping Angels Fund Beef and Beer and it was powerful. Big turnout. Over 130 people came to have a good time and share. You couldn’t help but be inspired. I’m proud of my brother and sister-in law. Thank you to those that came out to support us. On a personal note it was especially great to be with old friends who I havn’t seen in many, many years.
Just haven’t had the time
My offline life has squeezed the time I have for my online one. Apologies for the slower velocity posting or communicating via e-mail.
Gen-X whiners… No Sorry, and How Poor is Poor?
From Fortune, Gen-X’s worst fears are finally becoming true.
From the Miami New Times, How Poor Is Poor? According to the 2000 USCensus, Miami is now the poorest big city in America. Philadelphia comes in at number nine. I wonder what the change has been?
From BusinessWeek is a report on Global Poverty.
From the NYTimes, a much more personal perspective, In Trenches of a War on Unyielding Poverty.
From me comes the ever strengthening realization I build software that leads to people loosing jobs. I know it doesn’t need to be that way.
Parables, and Tech Job Losses Slowing
Burningbird’s The Parable of Languages is a must read and see.
According to Yahoo (well Reuters), Tech Job Losses are Slowing. 400,000 in two years. Wow.
The scariest link(s)
There is still cause for concern.
But will we get back to priorities?
The more I read, the more the Complete 9-11 Timeline frightens. via Garret.
Oliver Willis’ post Cost of War covers my concerns.
Even though I’m a centrist, although in a recent conversation with one of my old bosses – a mentor – claimed I was a liberal (maybe), articles like Goodbye, All That: How Left Idiocies Drove Me to Flee have confirmed what I’ve felt for a long time. The far left *and* the far right are full of nutjobs and hypocrites.
Speaking of scary, Dean, of “Heal Your Church Website” and “blogs4God”, has been reporting on the sniper killings. He’s in the neighborhood where it all began.
there are three big themes
In great literature, there are three big themes. The first is the new kid comes out of nowhere and beats the odds — David vs. Goliath. Next act is the kid meets fate, has bad luck, makes bad choices, and falls. The third is redemption.
At any one time — as a person, in a career, with my sports teams — you’re in one of those acts.
MovableType goes 2.5 and has it’s first birthday
Jakarta Commons Lang goes 1.0
Lots of useful helper classes here.
Installing Emacs part deux
I made some edits to Installing Emacs. It’s always fun to find someone who sets up their machine just like your own. Check out how Mark Pilgrim sets up his Windows environment. Take a second look at my “Installing Emacs” piece afterwards. I didn’t layout my entire environment there, but if I did, it would match Mark’s except for a few directory names.
For some reason I feel a whole lot more productive putting together a page like this then blogging.
Just go to Boom In The Room
Whether it be personal, political, or musical, Mark’s firing on all cylinders the past few days.