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- December 16th, 2009
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ahynes1 has posted a new entry on: Orient Lodge
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ahynes1 has posted a new entry on: Orient Lodge
RIP Aunt June
This morning, I received an email letting me know that my Aunt June has passed away. It was a little over a month ago that I received an email from a cousin letting me know that June had lung cancer…
- December 15th, 2009
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Reflections on the Nokia #N900 by a Distracted Old Geek
Yesterday, I distractedly started playing with my new Nokia N900. Depending on your perspective, you can think of this as a cell phone, a camera, a media player, a game console, or a computer, and I 
- December 14th, 2009
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Distracted
Normally by this time of the day on a Monday afternoon, I would have read through many of the emails that came in overnight and sent several responses. I would have visited a couple hundred blogs, gl…
- December 13th, 2009
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"Can Nokia Recapture Its Glory Days?"
Can Nokia Recapture Its Glory Days? This is the question that Nelson Schwartz, the European economics correspondent of The New York Times asked today on the front page of the business section. He ac…
- December 12th, 2009
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Holiday Traditions
Last weekend, Fiona and I drove over to the local cider mill to get cider for the final batch of hard cider we’re making this year. We stopped at the brewing shop to pick up the yeast we wanted to…
- December 11th, 2009
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How Closely are You Following the News?
The Pew Research Center has a very quick poll that I would love it if some of my readers took and reported back their results. Political Quiz. Read the rest of my blog post after you’ve taken the qu…
- December 10th, 2009
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Open Government Directive
On Tuesday, the Obama administration issued its Open Government Directive. It calls on Federal Agencies to publish data that had not been previously available and to use open formats that can be more…
- December 9th, 2009
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Addicted to Energy: A Venture Capitalist\'s Perspective on How to Save Our Economy and Our Climate
It was over a decade ago, when I lived in Stamford that I used to visit the house of Elton Sherwin. He was a friend from church who shared some of my fascination with using technology to address soci…
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- December 8th, 2009
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Making a Game out of Fighting the Flu
Yesterday and then again today, two competing ideas about dealing with how to fight the spread of H1N1 have been presented at press conferences. Yesterday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathlee…
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Free, as in Hard Cider
On two different mailing lists recently, the discussions between Gratis and Libre, or “Free, as in Beer” versus “Free as in Speech” has come up. Since I’ve started making my own Hard Cider…
- December 7th, 2009
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Debugging Wave Server Configuration
Assuming you have gotten your Wave Server up and running, the big problem is managing to federate with other servers. I’ve spent a bit of time talking with various people about this on Google Wave…
- December 6th, 2009
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The Tedium of Electoral Politics
As the battle for the Governor’s Seat in Connecticut heats up, so does the battle about how the election will be funded. On Friday Republicans announced their latest deficit mitigation package whic…
- December 5th, 2009
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Bright Shiny Tools
While I never was diagnosed with ADHD, my approach to technology these days have felt a little bit like there is some sort of attention deficit disorder. I’ve found myself hoping from bright shiny…
- December 4th, 2009
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Following the New London Pitbulls
No, the New London Pitbulls are not a new minor league sports team in Eastern Connecticut, they are the reason I didn’t get a chance to write my blog post today about my latest thoughts on Google Wa…
- December 3rd, 2009
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Web Enabling Matlab Analytics
Over the past several months, I’ve been working on several projects at Toomre Capital Markets dealing with optimal ways of distributing results of calculations done in Matlab. In previous posts, Iâ…
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Thinking about Television of Yesteryear
Kathy over at The Junk Drawer has a post up about her favorite TV station being moved to channel 1,129. I posted a comment there and thought I would share it here on my blog. I remember the day we fi…
- December 2nd, 2009
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Hard Cider Update
This evening, we racked our batch of hard cider that we’ve been brewing from Beardsley Orchard’s special heirloom batch of cider. We used a Weizen yeast and let it work for three weeks and two da…
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- December 1st, 2009
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Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit
The month of chasing two hares goes, and a new month come along. I start my blog post with Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, the old childhood invocation of hope for a lucky month. I had too many irons in the…
- November 30th, 2009
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ahynes1 has posted a new entry on: Orient Lodge
Statistics Education Application for the iPhone
At the Digiday:APPS conference in New York City last August, Teaque Lenahan, an Associate Partner, at Gravitytank presented the results of some of their recent research. He showed a clip of some of t…
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#trinblogwar Captain Futurist and the Innovators
This evening, I will be speaking at Colin McEnroe’s class Course on New Media and Old Media at Trinity College. I’ve spoken at his class in other years, typically starting from my role in various…
- November 29th, 2009
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Tiger Woods, Howard Stewart and Jodi Rell
This morning on Twitter and Facebook, @RickHancock asked the question, “How closely are you following #TigerWoods story? Seems like non traditional media is dominating coverage of this story http://…
- November 28th, 2009
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Screenshot
Screenshot, originally uploaded by Aldon. Screenshot of Ubuntu Laptop Desktop with QWaveClient running in X86 mode of an emulated N900 This screenshot is being uploaded via the same emulation…
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Building #QWaveClient for the #N900
Yesterday, I wrote a blog post about setting up a development environment for a Nokia N900. I spent most of the day with family, enjoying some rough weather out on Cape Cod. However, it was windy an…
- November 27th, 2009
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Building the Perfect Cellphone: the #iPhone, #droid and #N900
At the most recent Woodbridge Board of Education Meeting, Superintendent Stella spoke about the school’s commitment to constructivist education “which argues that humans generate knowledge and mea…
- November 26th, 2009
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Thanksgiving Morning on Cape Cod
It is about 6:30 in the morning, and I’m sitting in a vacation house in North Truro on Cape Cod. It is a beautiful house owned by and artist and full of her work. With the exception of an occasion…
- November 25th, 2009
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- November 24th, 2009
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ahynes1 has posted a new entry on: Orient Lodge
Black Friday and the Nokia N900 on Amazon
Back in June, I wrote a blog post about turning fifty and the new iPhone. My wife had been asking what I thought of the new iPhone and if it was time for me to upgrade from my old Motorola Razr. Fr…
- November 23rd, 2009
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Fiona Interviews CT Gubernatorial Hopeful Dan Malloy on Internet Radio Show
Sunday evening, eight year old Woodbridge, CT resident Fiona Hynes interviewed current Stamford Mayor and Connecticut Gubernatorial hopeful Dan Malloy on her Internet Radio Show. For the past year and…
- November 22nd, 2009
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Random Updates
Fiona’s Radio Show Last week, we did not have an episode of Fiona’s Radio Show because I was driving back from Virginia. Things have been so busy it is hard to believe that it was just a week ago…
- November 21st, 2009
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Turkeys, Soda and Paid and Unpaid Posts
I must admit, I am not a big fan of paid posts on blogs. I’ve read many paid posts as I surf blogs and most of them are uninteresting content promoting uninteresting content. However, this morning…
- November 20th, 2009
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#NaNoWriMo Liza
This month, I’ve been trying to write a novel for National Novel Writing Month, which I’m currently calling Liza’s Party. It is a twenty first century remake of Pygmalion, where two guys attemp…
- November 19th, 2009
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#socialmarketing Convergence CoverItLive Page
This page is the CoverItLive aggregation of the #socialmarketing TweetChat that is taking place Thursday November, 19th at 12 noon, Eastern U.S. time. You can join in by tweeting with the hash tag #so…
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#socialmarketing Convergence, The Long Tail and The Innovator/Influencers
Today at noon, Eastern U.S. time, @ckieff and I will do a Social Marketing Tweet Chat. Chris runs the Social Marketing firm, 1 Good Reason and we often chat at various conferences. He has been runni…
- November 18th, 2009
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- November 17th, 2009
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ahynes1 has posted a new entry on: Orient Lodge
The Peter Principle and SAFE Board of Education Meetings
Monday evening, the Woodbridge Board of Education held its monthly meeting. It started off with a motion to move briefly into executive session, and it was clarified that technically, it was moving i…
- November 16th, 2009
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A Post-structuralist Goldielocks sits in Joseph Kosuth’s Chairs at George W. Menard’s Wake
It feels like each day throws new curves at me, getting in the way of writing my novel and potentially messing up business appointments. The latest was a message from a friend on Facebook that said,…
- November 15th, 2009
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Is This What College is Like?
Yesterday, a child came out to wander. So many times, I sat on the edge of the bed of my older daughters and sang that song to them as they fell asleep. Fearful when the sky was filled with thunder…
- November 14th, 2009
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The Road to Virginia (Another Personal and #NaNoWriMo Post)
I spent about eight hours on the road driving down to Virginia yesterday. It was a grey day, with brief periods of rains along the way. For the first couple hours, I listened to the news. Then, I s…
- November 13th, 2009
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Follow Friday #NaNoWriMo Author @renegadegenius
The sound of heavy wind outside only adds to my desire to stay warm and comfortable under the bed covers. It is five in the morning and dark outside. Is the wind and rain are the remnant of Hurrican…
- November 12th, 2009
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#newbiz Open Collaborative Coverage System
There were many interesting topics covered at the NewBizNews HyperCamp at City University of New York yesterday. Much of the focus was on business models for a new news ecosphere where online hyper l…
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- November 11th, 2009
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#NewBiz NewBizNews HyperCamp CoverItLife
I'm at NewBizNews HyperCamp. We will be using the hash tag #NewBiz. So, expect a lot of traffic here. In addition, if I can juggle it, I'll also have a Google Wave with some of the same information…
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- November 10th, 2009
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ahynes1 has posted a new entry on: Orient Lodge
Hard Cider Update
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve provided an update on the cider making, but there isn’t a lot to update. Last Saturday, we racked off our latest batch of hard cider. This cider had slowly fer…
- November 9th, 2009
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Reactions to Rell Not Running for Re-election
I must admit that the first news I received that Gov. Rell had decided not to run for re-election came in a press release from Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy. I thank the Governor for her years of publi…
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Filing FCC Comments Online: Cablevision Encryption Follow Up
Last month, I wrote a blog post about Cablevision seeking to encrypt basic cable in New York City. I wrote about submitting a comment to the FCC about this a couple weeks later, and a review of some…
