The WhereProject

2005

  • Remembering Srebrenica and Chicago

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    This week marks the 10th anniversary of the massacres at Srebrenica when nearly 8,000 Bosnian Moslems were killed and the international community stood by without intervening. The last couple of days, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Bosnian co-workers and clients I got to know as a refugee resettlement job developer in Chicago. I…

  • Confluences: GeoProject USA and Google Maps

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    This morning I read in the Boston Globe about Google’s decision to allow developers to plug customized data into Google maps, basically legitizing what hackers were already doing ("Google points way to Maps’ code"). They’ve made their API info available at http://www.google.com/apis/When I ran across the GeoProject USA, I noticed they had already put together…

  • Longfellow Epitaph

    Longfellow Epitaph

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    17        There is no Death! What seems so is transition; 18           This life of mortal breath 19        Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 20           Whose portal we call Death. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Resignation" (1886-1991)On a gravestone in Mt. Auburn Cemetery  

  • The Quint House Goes Wireless

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    Tonight I’m sitting on the porch enjoying the warm summer breeze while working online for the first time–thanks to the wireless network I finally set up last night. I just never bothered to set one up, since our wired network has served us just fine, but now that my third floor room has reached oven-like…

  • Computers and Writing 2005, Stanford

    Computers and Writing 2005, Stanford

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    Since Wednesday I’ve been in Palo Alto at the Computers and Writing 2005 conference, and tomorrow I’ll be heading back to Boston. The conference has been good–I feel like I got what I came for–but now I’m ready to get back to Boston and finish this rather taxing trip. On Friday night we had a…

  • CIWIC 2005: Wrapping Up

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    Well, the last two weeks are now a blur of class time, lab time, and socializing at various sites around the Keweenaw. The immersion experience has kept me from doing much blogging, and now I have to hit the road so that I can get back to Minneapolis before too late. Perhaps I’ll have a…

  • CIWIC 2005: Getting Started

    CIWIC 2005: Getting Started

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    For the next two weeks, I’m up at the Computers in Writing Intensive Classrooms program at Michigan Tech. We’ve hit the ground running the last couple of days, and I already feel like I’ve learned quite a bit. In the New Media workshop I’m in, we’ve been discussing the nature of visual arguments, and our…

  • Writing Places

    Writing Places

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    The first copies of Writing Places: A Longman Topics Reader appeared yesterday, a little over a year after Paula, George, Staci, and I started the project. It was a pleasure working with these friends during that time, and I hope the fruits of our long hours spent in Cafenation and the O’Neill study rooms will…

  • Remnants of Spring

    Remnants of Spring

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    As I biked to Brighton Center this morning, I felt like I had missed the parade. In front of St. Elizabeth’s hospital the wind was blowing pink and red blossoms like confetti, gathering them into piles along the burb. With all the cold, rainy weather we’ve had, what I think I actually missed was spring.

  • A Critical Guide to Boston-Area Memorials

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    This past week I finished developing a site called Past Shapes, Present Stories: A Critical Guide to Boston-Area Memorials for a friend and colleague of mine at BC who has been teaching the American Literary History III survey this semester. As a final project assignment, Trevor had his students research local memorials and produce critical…