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  • Joining Nokia’s SXSW Cause Marketing Experiment

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    As part of Nokia’s efforts this year at SXSW to raise awareness of the over 4 million acres of land burned in Texas wildfires last year, they’ve started a contest to generate some excitement and re-plant some of those trees. I’ve been asked to participate as a blogger/twitterer in this friendly contest, called #IJustPlantedATree @SXSW 2012. For…

  • Arduino, Xbee and Sparkfun shield issue

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    This is much geekier than my usual stuff (not that I post here much anymore.) Unless you’re good with Arduino and XBee this will not be interesting – and possibly seem like gibberish. We have two Arduino Uno boards. Our board seem to transmit and receive each other, and we’ve tested the xbees – they work…

  • Still opposing SOPA and PIPA

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    We’re not going “Dark” here to protest SOPA. Instead, I’m leaving this post on the front of the site to give you links to some important places where you can take action. Please do take action, specifically, go to http://americancensorship.org/ and send a note to your Senator or Congressman. A truly great summary of the SOPA issue…

  • Opposing SOPA, Still Leaving GoDaddy

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    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…

  • For all those we lost…

    For all those we lost…

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    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…