After much internal debate, R.I.V.E.R. is now listed on Sourceforge.net. I decided upon this open source route rather than venturing after a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service as a way to maintain control over the project into the future... perhaps I…
For a while, I wanted to outline some of the excitement in my life. This post should enumerate these things. Let's begin with Public Radio Documentaries... I love This American Life with Ira Glass. For the longest time, I despised this gem of public radio. Recently, it grew…
I spent ten hours this past Saturday helping to coordinate City Year Columbus' efforts in the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville neighborhood. CYCO, the local neighborhood association, and half-a-dozen other groups joined together in efforts to clean and revitalize a local historic neighborhood. The King-Lincoln-Bronzeville neighborhood once served as the cradle of jazz…
This evening, a group of us from work converged to watch Ma Vie en Rose with a discussion afterward. The movie centers around the trials of a young boy who tries his best to become a girl. He does not fit into his gender role and his parents are speechless.…
I decided to spend some time yesterday catching up on some of the blogs I haven't read in a while. In reading Quayso's [http://www.quayso.com/], I noticed an interesting post about passionate people [http://www.quayso.com/notebook/2005/03/23/a-few-very-passionate-people/]. I first…
In an effort to increase my understanding of the civil rights movement, I am reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211888.Where_Do_We_Go_from_Here] While creating dialogue about the apparent…
This past weekend, I reclaimed my bicycle from the icy grasp of winter and took it for a ride down Columbus' legendary Olentangy bike path. Inspired by the promise of the MyFi I got for Christmas from CC, I hooked up the antenna and rode away. It was novel…
After a long evening of coding, users can now finalize projects in R.I.V.E.R. This means actual hours can be assigned to each volunteer along with final details about the project. A switch is flipped in the project's record in the database making it inaccessible…