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I completely messed up the vistered little theme that ran this site when I upgraded. Management console is cooler but I can’t find a Theme I like and I’m too lazy to edit one and make it new.  These days motivation is sparse.

 Oye!  Finding a place in Paris for the September timeframe that is reasonable price and clean comfortable!  Help!

Reggie Middleton’s Boom Bust Blog

is a weblog by a financial guy who has an interesting approach to information reporting.  Quoted from seekingalpha.com:

freethinking maverick—the penultimate nonconformist as it applies to macro strategies, investment, and analysis

As my company continues to change with the times we are embracing web 2.0 stuff.  I need to learn more about this.

2.0 websites typically include some of the following features/techniques:

• Cascading Style Sheets to aid in the separation of presentation and content
• Folksonomies (collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging)
• Microformats extending pages with additional semantics
• REST and/or XML- and/or JSON-based APIs
• Rich Internet application techniques, often Ajax-based
• Semantically valid XHTML and HTML markup
• Syndication, aggregation and notification of data in RSS or Atom feeds
• mashups, merging content from different sources, client- and server-side
• Weblog-publishing tools
• wiki or forum software, etc., to support user-generated content
• Internet privacy, the extended power of users to manage their own privacy in cloaking or deleting their own user content or profiles.

Pandora

My friend Andy turned me on to this little web application.  Interesting.  

Tim Westergren crated the Music Genome Project: 

Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song – everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It’s not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records – it’s about what each individual song sounds like.

This web application will create and play a list of songs based on an artist you chose and the attributes of that artist.  I’ve not looked into the Genome but its picking interesting artist much like the old classics I like. 

Jim

What an absolutely cool idea.  Here is an accumulation of places near the Hilton Norcross and Atlanta. 

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Where my grandfather was born.

 Happy Purim

The kids dressed up today!!