PuzzlepiecesThe personal weblog of Michael FaganWaterloo, Part 4: Keeping Up- April 27, 2008 A lot of people have asked how it is I keep up with everything going on at UW. My response is that actually I only keep up with less than one percent of what goes on, and doing so actually takes a fair effort. I get my information several ways. People telling me, looking at posters ...http://faganm.com/blog/2008/04/27/915/ Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody- April 26, 2008 Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody - couple of things here I agree with, couple that I disagree with. To start with, I thought &8220;journalists&8221; calling non-fad web things fads was going to die years ago. The internet is not a fad. Blogging is not a fad. Sharing stuff on the web, clearly ...http://faganm.com/blog/2008/04/26/914/ Virtual Earth Live Maps: The New Release of Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D is now Live!- April 17, 2008 Virtual Earth Live Maps: The New Release of Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D is now Live! - when I was studying for exams this past week, Live Maps, the team I worked with and will be returning to in August, released a major upgrade. Here is what is cool to me, although there ...http://faganm.com/blog/2008/04/17/913/ some public transit data notes- April 17, 2008 I started writing this post a few weeks ago and have mostly forgotten what I was going to write about. whups&8230; Headway Wiki is a great wiki for public transit data, which accompanies the Headway blog. I added some links for Waterloo, Toronto, and Seattle. It is great seeing that some cities are opening up their data ...http://faganm.com/blog/2008/04/17/910/ Unveiling Museum station- April 9, 2008 Unveiling the Toronto TTC Museum station - everyone may not like Joe Clark, but the world needs more people like him. People who care enough about the public good to do quality work on their own time for it, when fighting a very uphill battle.http://faganm.com/blog/2008/04/09/912/ contact management- April 7, 2008 so the problem of contact management is the opposite of new, and a lot has improved in recent years, but things still aren&8217;t working for me my contacts are split like so primary list of contacts: Gmail. Auto-adding of addresses to the the list is usually good, but I wish it was easier to purge people with ...http://faganm.com/blog/2008/04/07/911/ biofuel- April 3, 2008 random rant. biofuel is a bad idea, almost always, if not always. this has been clear since the ideas were first proposed, and confirmed with more and more studies. why does so much of the world not get this to be fair, I realize that part of the reason is the US corn surplus, thanks ...http://faganm.com/blog/2008/04/03/909/ |