Thoughts & Experiences from the Mile High City
Leaving Behind the Trucker Hat – New York Times
This is an interesting article about the growth of organic farming, their struggles, and people leaving the city to move to the country.
Organic farming is hard and a lot of work. This article will make you appreciate it more.
China will be hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the main problem with the Olympics this year will be China itself. The conflicts and controversy are already starting with the pollution, the conflict in Tibet, and the culpability with the Sudanese government.
In Beijing itself, the biggest challenge is the pollution in the city and how it is going to effect the outdoor sports. The pollution in Beijing is one of the worst in the world and already caused problems with the Women’s World Cup last summer.
The Olympic Chief, Jaques Rogge, is even admitting it will be a problem. “People are beginning to come to terms with the fact it could be a major issue. Rogge said that some of the endurance events may be postponed and that would be disaster for the organisers.”
The pollution stems from a tremendous number of new cars on the roads and from the coal factories fueling the growth in China’s economy. They are doing their best to work on reducing the pollution by reducing vehicle traffic in Beijing and by curbing emissions from coal plants, but there hasn’t been much improvement.
They tried to ban cars for four days in the city earlier this year and it did not work to reduce pollution. Continue reading “The Problem With the 2008 Summer Olympics is China”
I just want to say that both University of Idaho basketball coaches deserve to be let go from their jobs. Their performance over the last couple of years has been horrible, if not embarrassing.
During my tenure at the University of Idaho, 1990-1993, Idaho was always at the top of the Big Sky, drawing huge crowds, and always competing against bigger schools.
I remember a couple games in the Kibbie Dome where the University of Idaho played Washington State University and there were over 8,000 people in the Dome to watch the game. It might have been closer to 10,000, but not sure. It was fun and what a college experience should be watching a college basketball game.
The Dome was so loud for the games against Boise State, that you couldn’t even hear your friends speak. It was great!
But the basketball programs have been horrid the past several years and since Idaho has moved up to the WAC, they haven’t been able to compete against the likes of Washington State, Boise State, & Gonzaga. They can’t blame it on location because Washington State has done quite well in the recruiting arena and they are only 8 miles away. Continue reading “Both University of Idaho Basketball Coaches Deserve to be let go…”
Bob Costas made some interesting statements about blogging today at a dinner for the Make-A-Wish sports auction in south Florida.
I saw this article on a blog that the Spokesman-Review runs on various sports out of Spokane, Wash. Here is what I said in a comment section:
I just don’t think Costa’s gets it. People have something to say, they are going to say it. They just have a bigger audience and they don’t need something filtered through the mainstream media that pays Costas salary.
I think that the media is changing and the people who have been doing it through the traditional means are having a hard time with it and are resistant to it. I am finding better coverage and better news on blogs and citizen journalist sites than I am finding through mainstream sites. They just don’t have the time anymore to do the job that needs to be done because the staffs have been cut so much.
I can see Cuban restricting access to bloggers, but limiting a person who blogs with a major news outlet that covers your team is ridiculous. The Miami Dolphins seem to be doing it right, I just can’t believe they have that many fan sites.
The other interesting thing of this blog was that Mark Cuban, himself a blogger, banned blogger’s only from being credentialed at the Dallas Maverick games. I see his point, but they have banned a blogger from a major newspaper in Dallas. I don’t think that was cool.
I would be interested to hear what your thoughts and comments are.
At a recent hearing on Iraq, the Congressional Committee and the person testifying faced distruptions throughout the hearing as they were eating chips and drinking soda.
http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/videoplayer/flvplayer.swf
Delicious Snacks Distract Congressmen From Horrors Of War
Thanks to the Onion News Network for bringing this to our attention.
Boulder woman ticketed for dyeing her poodle pink:The Rocky Mountain News
This is just nuts and would only happen in the People’s Republic of Boulder. This is a community that allowed someone to steal property from someone else because those landowners were not around to stop it.
The People’s Republic seems more intent showing that they have power and will use it than using common sense in carrying out there jobs. Now someone has to waste their own time and city has to waste the courts time in deciding on this issue.
A women is using beet juice and sometimes kool-aid to dye the dog’s hair. The dog is not having a reaction to it.
Common sense needs to prevail in this issue and the court needs to throw it out. Maybe they should personally charge the humane society for the wasted time of the court also.
For all of you who use the stand-alone version of WordPress, WordPress 2.5 is released tomorrow, March 10.
This looks to be a substantial release with a lot of new cool features.
To see what is coming for WordPress 2.5, check out the official WordPress site.
To see a discussion and summary, check out the blog post in the Blog Herald by Lorelle VanFossen, WordPress 2.5 in Two Weeks, New Hot Media Library, Instant Upgrades, Theme Designers Lack Inspiration, More Plugin Vulnerabilities Found.
I haven’t downloaded any of the betas, but I will be updating this as soon as I can.
When I got out of college, we headed to a ski town, or nearby, and settled with a bunch of similar-minded people and skied all winter long. We had a bunch of parties and worshiped powder days.
But there is a new kind of flophouse and that is in Washington, D.C. where several bloggers have moved in together and now have a flophouse of bloggers.
According to an article in the New York Times, Washington Doesn’t Sleep Here, “The Flophouse bloggers may not be part of the traditional mainstream news media, but they are certainly part of the mainstream blogosphere that is helping drive discourse in the city and the country.” Continue reading “A flophouse of bloggers…”
Well this is the second time that Daylight Savings Time is beginning the second Sunday in March. Even though I like the sun being out later, it is quite dark in the morning.
I have been quite exhausted at work and this will only intensify this week because of the lost hour of sleep tonight.
Congress passed the new Daylight Savings Time rules as part of the Energy Bill a couple of years ago to save energy. But there are reports recently that more energy is used than saves because we switch so early.
As mentioned earlier I like the sun, but I am not sure it is worth the additional energy.
David Pogue discusses Web 2.0 and Social Media after his keynote at the Social Media Expo.
http://www.myragantv.com/ups/28bb23b001e10daf4fec027d5cad336c
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