It just came to my attention that the comments system on this site is busted. This probably happened some time around the upgrade. I’m in the middle of a site redesign. I haven’t updated the theme for the latest version of WordPress, so I’m going to look there first.
Update:  Ok, they’re finally […]

Recently coworker Noel and I were invited over to the lower Manhattan digs of PubSub. They’ve built a pretty sweet system for following topics of interest as they are mentioned on the web. Rather than trying to be Google or Technorati (indexing and storing the entire web/blogosphere), they’re taking a differnet approach to […]

This article about the idea for “Airport City” to be developed between Detroit Metro and Willow Run Airports, I-94 and the Detroit-Chicago railroad corridor has been sitting in my “to blog” pile for awhile.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Michigan economy and what the possibilities are, including what it would take to get people […]

Malcolm Gladwell, one of my favorite writers, is now blogging. In this post he writes about criticisms of his positive understanding of the Canadian universal health care system.
In the comments on my about-face on health care, a number of people make the familiar criticisms of the Canadian system. Care is rationed. You wait […]

Just before leaving Ann Arbor last fall, I attempted to make contact with someone at the local cable access station (CTN) regarding two issues surrounding their broadcast of government meetings.
The first was regarding whether they could improve their TV listings so it would be easier to record meetings on their DVRs. I would […]

I recently attended a meeting of DEBNA (Duke Ellington Blvd. Neighborhood Association) my neighborhood association. Folks who’ve been in the neighborhood for over a decade say they’ve never seen the rat problem this bad. It is pretty bad around here; though the dog loves having ample prey to hunt.The mantra of the meeting […]