Technology
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Tracking Eater Chicago’s “24 of Chicago’s Most Anticipated Fall Openings”
I saw this post on Eater today: 24 of Chicago’s Most Anticipated Fall Openings. As is usual with Eater, it was an amazingly well-researched post, with tons of detail and specifics about who’s doing what where. The actual dates of restaurant openings are a notoriously inexact science. There are lots of movable parts to opening a new…
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Colorado Dark Knight Shootings and the Concept of a Connected Holiday
This morning we awoke in Cork City, Ireland shortly after a man shot up a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Due to the vagaries of the Earth’s size and shape, the time difference made it so we were able to watch & listen to the aftermath coverage live, in daylight with coffee, as the United…
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How I Got My Personal Health Records
10/15/2011 Signed up for Microsoft Health Vault, which is “a trusted place for people to organize, store, and share health information online”. Once I signed up, they offered a huge list of other services that have information that I could place inside my Health Vault account. I clicked on every single one of these services…
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Wrapping Up the AldermanicWebsites Project
I had a fun time with my obsessive side project, AldermanicWebsites. I learned a ton about current modes of online campaign management, I spoke to lots of the candidates, and felt like I really had a handle on the issues that were of interest at the Ward level. It was also cool doing a Hack…
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Toolset Review: How I Made AldermanicWebsites
Over the Christmas break I made AldermanicWebsites, “a comprehensive index of the technology, design, and content of Web sites for candidates running for Alderman in the February 2011 Municipal Elections in Chicago, IL.” I’m not a very skilled Web developer. I can’t write any code from scratch and I don’t know any programming languages. But…