Michael’s Two Cents

Even if you are not an architect you should watch this. Great ideas for spreading the simple idea of open source code to architecture and just about any idea if you just take a moment to extend it to your work.

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Congratulations to the people of Potrero for standing up to the mercenary organization Blackwater. Blackwater wanted to put a mercenary training camp in Potrero and the people of Potrero stood up to them and blocked the base.

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Why is this not on the TV News every night? Oh yeah right, never mind. In any event mark your calendars, host an event, attend an event, just watch the films. This will definitely be interesting, Pangea Day.
What Is Pangea Day?
Pangea Day taps the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions [...]

Have you seen TED? TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It began in 1984 as a conference that brought together people from those three worlds. It’s now a much bigger deal and it’s online. At night while coding I’ve been listening to the videos and I must admit not getting much work done but my [...]

Google has challenged the world to race to the moon. Ten teams are now planning missions to the moon. They will fly rockets to the moon and land a rover that will travel at least 500 meters and send pictures of itself back. $30 million dollars is on the table for the first teams to [...]

I’m actually fairly handy and know how to build and make stuff. I’m also a do-it-yourself-er to a fault. So my solution to the mortgage nightmare many of us are beginning to see come to our neck of the woods is to make my house bigger and better as frugally as I can.
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Have you seen the latest news on the home mortgage crisis? Check out this disturbing article. Here are a couple quotes that pretty much sum it up.
“That marks the first time homeowners debt on their houses exceeds their equity since the Fed started tracking the data in 1945.”
And…
“Moody’s Economy.com estimates that 8.8 million homeowners, or [...]

Brattleboro, Vermont has passed a resolution (passed by a vote of 2012 in favor to 1795 against) to hold Bush and Cheney responsible for violating their oath of office and crimes against the Constitution. This means that if they are not impeached before they leave office and they step a foot inside Brattleboro, thay can [...]

My brother Jon and his wife Atashi just had a baby boy! Welcome to the world Akash, which means ‘heavenly sky’ in Sanskrit. I think I got the stats right… he’s 7 pounds 9 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long. Now my little Katie (21 months) has a little cousin.

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