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Monthly Archives: February 2007

Wal-Mart as Economic Revitalization Driver?

19-Feb-07

Don’t look so surprised - Wal-Mart is in fact going into communities where classic economic redevelopment has failed, or worse yet, has never even been attempted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/19/financial/f091544S30.DTL
Wal-Mart gets lots of criticism for lots of things, and as an employer that brings together a population greater in size than many American cities, this is no surprise.  When [...]

Because sometimes a shovel isn’t enough

19-Feb-07

Cutting the compacted, nearly solidly frozen snow from your front yard?  No, that wouldn’t be right… that would be crazy…

Tags: snow, chainsaw, denver

7th Grader Raising Funds for Autism Research

18-Feb-07

I came across this story yesterday and the more I think about about, the more it inspires me to move forward with some of the things I’m working on (look here over the next few weeks for details)

This kid is a 7th grader from New Jersey who got involved in raising funds - and awareness [...]

Subversion at Freepository

17-Feb-07

In January, I began offering a new account type at Freepository - Silver Edition. Silver provides on-demand trac views of your subversion-managed freepository. For a limited time, Freepository Silver Edition, which provides hosted SVN and Trac, is available free of charge.