whysel We just got back from Costa Rica late Sunday night. We left New York on a snowy March 18th and were briefly delayed to de-ice the wings. Four hours later we were in San Jose, met our San Jose guide, who gave us a brief tour orientation while being driven to and dropped at the … Read more
Here is a new initiative I am working on with the Municipal Art Society. The Community Information Technology Initiative at http://www.myciti.org/ is an online mapping program being used by five pilot New York City Community Boards to aid in community planning, development and emergency management. I am having a great time with this project! In … Read more
Program that takes XML tree data and displays them in a pretty tree diagram. It would be great if I could control what part of the tree it shows by collapsing/expanding nodes, allow me to color code the display of the lines, nodes & terminus labels to metadata coded for each node, etc. Is there … Read more
Fall seems to be a peak time for business networking and new projects. I am starting new projects for the American Museum of Natural History and the Municipal Art Society, and I still have time for one more. A few neat possibilities have come up, as well as a whole slew of networking opportunities. Do … Read more
I just launched a new website for the America Museum of Natural History’s Ornithology Department. The site describes a field expedition to Mt. Tay Con Linh to study biodiversity in a remote, mountainous region in the north with links to research papers and a slideshow of bird specimens that were collected in the region. Please … Read more
Walking the kids to school today, I realized what day it was and how much the weather resembles 9/11/2001. It was a bit warmer then, so that helps put things in perspective a bit. My sister in law called this morning at around 7am (our time) saying she just woke from a bad dream and … Read more
It was just after 4pm. I was on the M104 coming back with my girls from the JCC Day Camp. Everything was normal on our ride back, but when we got off the bus at 88th & Broadway, we realized the streetlights were out. I thought it was just on the one intersection and told … Read more
While trolling the Social Networks board at Ryze I discovered a couple of interesting links to articles on Knowledge Management and Social Networks which was the topic I was pursuing and a side link on Weblogs as Filing Cabinets, both posted on Dave Pollard’s How to Save the World blog.
(It’s 100 degrees and I’m feeling nostalgic) Little League games Wyler’s Italian Ices Big, white, puffy clouds Any song by Chicago Gazing up at the sky through the leaves of an apple tree Lake Michigan Kids’ laughter and splashing sounds Chuck’s pool & country music from the 50s Colorful, wet beach towels, draped over a … Read more
