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Wednesday, July 19, 2006Be Careful What You Wish For For more than a week, the St. Louis area has been hoping for a break from 90ish-100-degree temps. We got our wish tonight -- with a vengeance. A massive storm front swept through, turning the skies a dark green-gray hours before dusk. Several hundred thousand homes are sans power tonight -- including ours; we got the last room in a hotel five blocks away from home in an area with power. Reports of damage across the region are legion: the new Busch Stadium was battered, but, hey, the Cards won a game that started more than 2 hours late; part of the roof was torn off Lambert International and littered across Highway 70; windows blew out of downtown buildings; trees lie scattered across the landscape. Coverage: Post-Dispatch; KSDK; KMOV photos. A shout-out to The Daniele Hotel in Clayton, which which quite literally provided shelter from the storm, Ditto for its can-do staff. They kept the restaurant open and even insisted on making us side dishes to serve with the chicken we'd picked up for dinner as the storm began. Almost as important as the food, they have free WiFi. And it's close enough to run home as needed. Oh, about the temperature. It dropped to 73 degrees durng the storm ... and will start climbing right back up tomorrow. Here's the current outage map.More than two-thirds of the customers in our zip code are out. Total out now: 500,000-plus, Saturday, July 15, 2006Don Henley: Drummer Watching the Eagles Farewell I Tour, I suddenly had the urge to find out more about Don Henley's background as a drummer. Lucky for me, Robert Santelli squirreled it all out of him in an excellent interview for Modern Drummer. Unfortunately, I couldn't link to it directly from the mag's site. It doesn't work in Firefox and when I finally got it loaded in IE 7, didn't have a visible search engine or online archive. This link goes to a Flickr-posted picture of Henley on drums in Dublin this year. The official Eagles' site is a shining example of what happens when a designer runs amok with Flash. Totally painful. Thursday, July 06, 2006Thursday, June 29, 2006Media Giraffe I'm in Amherst for a conference hosted by the Media Giraffe Project. Streaming video. Video also will be archived for on-demand viewing. Bloggers are here in force. I'm writing about it at paidContent.org. Jemima Kiss even wrote about me. Scary. "Staci admits that she does blog in her pyjamas (it’s not just me then), that the site is the first thing she thinks about in the morning and the last thing she thinks about at night. And that she feels the site is like a neo-pet. “If I don’t keep feeding it, it will start squealing and die…”Actually, Jemima, I blog in pajamas but it sounds so much more stylish coming from you. Friday, June 23, 2006BloggerCon IV In a stroke of luck for all of us, Doc Searls has overcome various laws of physics and figured out how to be everywhere. We can all live vicariously through his OPML notes from BC IV, now in progress from the lovely SF offices of CNET. There's also the audio webcast, currently playing some primo New Orleans sound during a break. Dan Farber, who also has figured out how to beat physics, is blogging here. Dave Winer is posting MP3 links as they go live. If it's an un-conference is he a dis-organizer? Saturday, May 06, 2006Tuesday, May 02, 2006Happy Birthday, Dave Trust me, this is better than recording my own version.
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