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First Hand: Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection
This weekend we attended the opening of the First Hand exhibit, a remarkable collection of Civil War Era sketches never seen by the public before. This exhibit is special for me because I've been managing the website development for both the Becker Collection and the First Hand exhibit site over that last three years. Though…
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Bright Leaves through a Window: A Better View
Four years ago I posted an entry with this photo in response to the election: That morning I was trying to focus on anything bright as a dark frame seemed to close in around me; this morning it feels like we've stepped outside into something brighter. My eyes are still adjusting, but it's quite a sight…
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Drupalcon Boston 2008
It's been more than four years since I began using the open source appliction Drupal at the end of 2003, and it's come a long way in that time. This week more than 800 folks from around the world gathered in Boston to Drupalcon 2008 to geek out with fellow Drupalers at the Boston Convention…
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Writing By Bike
Earlier this week, I took out my keys and discovered that one key inexplicably had become wedged in the ring of another one such that I could not for the life of me untangle them. It was like one of these mechanical disentanglement puzzles that I was never very good at solving. All week I…
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Weekend Music: From Framingham to South Africa
After hearing two outstanding concerts this weekend, I'm struck by how long it takes me get around to finding good music sometimes. Sunday night I made my first trip to Framingham to hear John Gorka play (Dan Coutier opening – nice job Dan), which gave me the chance to get better aqcuainted with someone I…
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Segway at the Sweet Finnish Cafe
This morning I'm sitting in Sweet Finnish, one of my new coffeeshops here in JP, and I just watched a man pass by on the far sidewalk, riding on a Segway. While biking will always be my first love, I've had a little thing for Segways since I dreamed about them a while back ,…
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Coolidge Corner Theatre
Some random comments on a post from a couple years ago (Fargo Theatre Home of "Wood-Chip Marge") prompts me to post a photo took of my favorite local movie venue, the Coolidge Corner Theatre. On Saturday night, Cathy, Megan, and I strolled over from Allston on a mild spring night to take in "Thank You…
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An Hour of the the Rolling Stones
Last night at about 9:30, I realized I didn’t have enough powdered milk to finish making yogurt, so I hopped on my bike for a quick trip to the grocery store. As I rode down Brighton Ave, the breeze was warm and fresh, and the the bright orange-yellow moon hung low in the sky, just…
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Remembering Srebrenica and Chicago
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…
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Computers and Writing 2005, Stanford
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…