Some time during our little Art Fair estate sale enterprise, I exited my motorcycle the wrong way, burning my calf on my well-heated tailpipe. It didn’t hurt much (and I was so sore from moving heavy things in 90°+ heat for days on end, I’m not sure I would’ve noticed much more pain, anyway), […]

It’s that time of year again — Art Fair! I enjoyed it the first time. Instead of leaving town to avoid the madness, we instead decided to take advantage of the massive crowds and their fanny packs full of cash, and are selling tons of Rich’s stuff that doesn’t belong to the Ahern […]

Lizz has some appointments lined up in NYC (job interview, roommate meetings) on Monday in NYC, so we’re taking a road trip via Ithaca. It’ll be nice to see Erica & Chris’ new house (finally!), and hopefully other friends.
We’re planning to leave Saturday to Ithaca via Canada (Oh, Canada!), then on to NYC sometime […]

I’ve been helping clean up, pack and organize the possesions of my friend Rich Ahern, who died a year ago in April. Rich left, among many things, an immense and neglected personal library of nearly 10,000 volumes. He also left thousands of 3″ x 5″ cards he used for organizing information he didn’t […]

A few months ago, I had an exchange with Rick Cowan of the Organizers’ Collaborative and some other folks on a national non-profit technology email list list (I think NOSI). The discussion was about using screen-sharing services like WebEx for training and meeting over the ‘net. Concurrent with this discussion was a discussion […]