April, 2007
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Apr 07
White House: Millions of e-mails may be missing – CNN.com
White House: Millions of e-mails may be missing: “I wouldn’t rule out that there were a potential 5 million e-mails lost,” Perino told reporters.
That’s a lot of emails to lose.
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Apr 07
What do you do when your success … sucks?
What do you do when your success … sucks? – Behind the scenes at the re-launch of Topix.net.
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Apr 07
Forgotten NY
An oldie but goodie (and still in action) Forgotten NY. Bonus link: Stalking the Crowded City, a Loner With a Lens
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Apr 07
Virtual Lincoln
Whenever I get misty-eyed for Lincoln, I have found I can now get my virtual fix at roundus.com, which has some pretty nifty panoramas of various sites of interest in my hometown.
My favorite shot by far is the Men’s room at Yia-Yia’s
They you can browse a Google maps mashup showing locations of all their shots to date.
The quality isn’t quite as high-res as the panorama’s at panoramas.dk (my fave’s being the and Ground Zero Tribute )
Some reccomendations for future shots:
- Russ’ Market, 17th & Washington
- Intoxicants (liquor store), 11th & G
- Duffy’s bathroom
- Precision Skates (w/ Phil at the counter)
- D’Leons (Drive thru on West O)
- N Street Drive In
- Thai house/Oriental Market
- Thrift stores on O Street
- Zesto’s (on South St, or is that closed?)
Lincolnites former and current : What other locations should be documented?
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Apr 07
BYOBW 2007 Report
“Stella, these are the modern day gladiators.”
She didn’t even ask what gladiators meant. I think she was too stunned at the site of several thousand people lined along Lombard Street watching the throng of grown men and women ride Big Wheels and other assorted childrens toys down the ‘crookedest street in the world’.
We went last year, which was great fun, but this year was a spectacle. I wasn’t really surprised that it took 30 minutes to find parking, because it’s always a hassle in that part of the city. I didn’t expect the number of people who turned out. My guess is that the turnout had some of the organizers sweating it a bit too. (Just a guess, but with folks hanging in those funky trees and sitting in the ivy on the walls, my guess is the neighbors would be uppity.)
We got in good an close on the last heat. I wanted to go see the awards ‘ceremony’ but Stella was a bit too freaked out by the amount of people. If you know her, then you know that would take a LOT of people. We walked up Lombard for a while, and then had to dodge out of the way of cars driven by anxious tourists who had been waiting an hour or more to drive down the famous street.
Check out my flickr set of BWOBW2007 photos here.
Lots more photos of the event on Flickr, tagged byob2007
Oh yeah… the Easter bunny came this year too!
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Apr 07
links for 2007-04-08
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A new (top me, anyway) GTD app. Now, if it can help me finish the last few chapters of ‘Getting things done’, I’ll be stoked!
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Apr 07
byobw – 2007
update: just posted my photos of BYOBW2007 to Flickr.
easter means colored eggs, chocolate bunnies, and of course, adults on big wheels racing down lombard street.
From last year’s race:
