Archive for October, 2007

jQueryCamp07

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

1:20 - jQuery & Ruby Frameworks - Yehuda Katz
1:00 - Date picker/calendar success story - Marc Grabanski
12:00 - lunch — will be posting notes later and linking them here. Paul Bakaus has some really cool ideas for a service to provide, for example, cross-site cut & paste and cross-widget communication.
11:07 - jQuery UI […]

Local 743 Cleans House

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

My friend Joe has been working for years as a member of Teamsters Local 743 in Chicago to oust their corrupt and ineffectual leadership and elect leadership that actually represents the membership’s interests .  It’s not often you hear good news out of the US labor movement, but the reformers provide that, in a fair […]

Midwest to Southwest: “Move here”

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Murph writes about his schadenfreude watching the fires in California and droughts in the South from water-rich (and increasingly temperate) Michigan.
Michigan and other Rust Belt/Great Lakes states need to start planning now to respond in an organized fashion to any demands for water diversion from Great Lakes basin watersheds to the south and southwest. […]

Affordable Hipster Housing

Friday, October 5th, 2007

I subscribe to the NYC HPD email list to receive notices about various city-sponsored affordable housing programs. Usually these are for subsidized sales in less “desirable” (as dictated by real estate prices) neighborhoods (East New York, Rockaway, Mott Haven) and rentals with strict income limits in similar neighborhoods.
This evening in my box appeared a […]