Notes: Housing 2.0

January 7, 2009

I’m finally finishing the article that was due a few days ago – hate being this late. Prompted by what I came across in several articles recently, it’s about housing for people who are homeless. Except I’m looking at this as a “2.0” issue (yes, I know we all have two-dot-oh coming out our ears, […]

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Notes: feminism.

January 5, 2009

Occasionally, I note that some articles about feminism have people talking – but I’ve stopped reading them. On occasion it struck me that an article will approach the topic from a generational p.o.v. to ask how a new and younger generation has changed the thinking around feminism. (“New and younger” just makes me feel “old […]

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Notes.

January 5, 2009

I’m going to start a new category, “notes,” meant for those one-off ideas that pop up unexpectedly, that aren’t fleshed out, that are just interesting (to me), and that I usually forget. Like this morning: I wanted to post a note about feminism and enlightenment, but inbetween running around and chores and tasks, it got […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

January 4, 2009

“Oregon will move to tax cars by the mile,” by Knute Berger Oregon might transition away from a gas tax in 2009 and switch to a mileage tax instead. Unfortunately, the scheme raises privacy issues/ concerns, since GPS satellite tracking systems would be used to keep track of one’s mileage. Ouch. tags: oregon, carbon_tax, cars, […]

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Freshness.

January 4, 2009

As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been commenting on a couple of other sites. As a result, I started mulling over the odd (to me) idea that having a PhD from Harvard and having taught at MIT and Brown is meaningful over and above the ideas I try to contribute when I write […]

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Commenting thing.

January 3, 2009

Not too much writing on the blog lately, but I have been commenting on some other blogs. Some use the Disqus comment system (which I wish I could install here). My Disqus account is here.

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Victoria’s Focus Magazine now online

January 2, 2009

In a move that surprised me pleasantly, Focus Magazine – the Victoria/ South Island magazine to which I contribute monthly – has a new website where readers can download (in PDF) the entire magazine, just as it appears in print. It’s a new feature. On the site, they included not just the current (January 2009 […]

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Punk alert: Feeling “bitchy”

December 30, 2008

It’s almost NYE – that dratted time of year when idiots worldwide propose resolutions and the rest of us stare blank-eyed at the cereal bowl of life. I’m feeling particularly foul-minded these days, not least for being older (but not wiser to life, necesssarily), and for being at a point where reassessment seems …um, necessary, […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

December 28, 2008

Urban RainCatchers Gazette: Frontpage QUOTE Judging by what’s covered in the media, it would appear that so-called “green” developers are leading the way when it comes to sustainable water and stormwater practices. But there is plenty of evidence to debunk that myth. This website will showcase innovation in the public sector, leadership from the grassroots, […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

December 21, 2008

The Bellows » Homes on the Cheap Housing price downturn hasn’t fixed or addressed the affordable housing crisis, and it would be a good thing if liberal/progressive policy makers engaged with the ideas of “conservatives” like Ed Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko, who advocate “a substantial increase in housing vouchers and federal measures to incentivize growth […]

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