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Howard on December 27th, 2011

I haven’t blogged here in a while, but I felt compelled to do so recently by the controversy regarding the SOPA act in Congress. Why is the bill so bad? You can read how the SOPA Bill violates the Constitution by creating blacklists and opposing free speech. Since the bill also allows sites to be shut down without an adversary [...]

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Howard on September 10th, 2011

This is a very special poem we read at America’s Camp, and which I will be reading at a memorial in Suffern tomorrow. In the rising of the sun and its going down, We remember them. In the blowing of the wind and in the chill of winter, We will remember them. In the opening [...]

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Howard on June 24th, 2011

I received a Nokia Asound on loan that I’ve used on and off over the last few weeks, in order to bring my friends a review. The phone runs on the T-Mobile network in the US, and this was the first time I’ve tried T-Mobile in a very long time. Nokia provided a pre-paid SIM [...]

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Howard on May 3rd, 2011

I’ve been watching as the media is interviewing people who lost relatives on 9-11 and asking what Bin Laden’s death meant to them. This is a post about the people I know personally, and my take on how they’ve reacted. I’ve been privileged to work with the families who lost rescue workers on 9-11 since a [...]

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My backpack is packed with extra tubes, tire tools, supplies, Clif bars, and electrolyte jelly beans. My bike jersey sits alone, unworn. I did not get to ride with my friends Tony and Andy today on the 30 mile trip around Manhattan that we’ve been training for since early spring. Here’s Tony and me on [...]

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