Ten years is a long time on the web

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ibiblio is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary. Ibiblio hosts a collection of websites that can show you just what the medium is capable of. Whether it be the WebMuseum, Project Gutenberg, Cafe au Lait, HyperWar, Bawdy Ballads, Roger McGuinn’s Folk Den, The Open Book Project, especially How to think like a computer scientist… I know I’ve visited an Ibiblio site at least once a week over the past five years. Check it out.

Sleeping Angels Beef and Beer A Huge Success

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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.

Gen-X whiners… No Sorry, and How Poor is Poor?

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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.

The scariest link(s)

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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.