Closing the Gap

July 6, 2008 in problems, Places, Life, News, Journalism, Blogging

This is my last full day in Santa Barbara this month (I fly tomorrow, and will be back for most of August), and I’m pleased to see the Gap Fire in what appears to be …
Because TV’s death has a deadline

July 5, 2008 in Future, Life, Past, problems, Gear, Ideas, Science, News, Politics, Business, Events, Journalism

What happens after TV’s mainframe era ends next February? That’s the question I pose in a long essay by that title (and at that link) in Linux Journal. It’s makes a case that runs …
Gap Fire, 2:35, July 5

July 5, 2008 in Places, Geology, problems, Life, News, Events, Journalism

InciWeb just updated 8 minutes ago, with this report: Fire continued creeping to the north, east, and west with limited movement due to competing wind that kept the fire from making any significant runs. On …
Gap Fire 5 July 8:15am

July 5, 2008 in problems, Places, Life, Events, News, Health, Journalism

First, kudos again to Edhat’s news list for not only gathering info from many sources, but for giving equal weight to both professional and amateur sources — and for hosting a great many …
Gap Fire progress shots

July 4, 2008 in problems, Places, Geology, Life, Events, News, Travel, Health, Journalism

I’ve loaded too many pictures onto this blog, so for this round I’m going to just point to shots elsewhere: in this case to a photo set of maps built with .kml files from …

Perspective

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