Ross Notes (Free subscription) | 27/07/2008
I’ve imported an archive of my old ‘Ross Notes’ wordpress (.org) install, a collection of posts dating from 2000 to early this year. So, what happened to the ‘clean start’ I wanted? I like being able to link back to old posts, and you can’t link to stuff that is no longer online. After a quick bit [...]
Ross Notes (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
I’m starting fresh, with a new focus: EVENTGRINDER, the collaborative calendar tool. It’s gonna be awesome.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | yesterday
back in business: Barataria/San Juan MP Joseph Ross, right, cuts a symbolic ribbon at yesterday's re-opening of the Courts Mega Store in San Juan. Assisting him, from left, are branch manager Anjani Ramdeo Manwah, Mario Guerrero of Courts Caribbean Holding Company and Errol Le Blanc of Unicom (Trinidad) Ltd. -Photo: MICHEAL BRUCEThe Courts Mega Store at San Juan officially reopened its doors...
House of Dumb (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Brilliant though the Republican's choice of an all-pilot ticket is, it does ram home how awful British politics is. Say what you like about 'Maverick', but he at least have a history. As for Palin, she's not only a great pick for all the reasons Ross notes, but she's got that something extra - she seems normal. Can anyone seriously imagine anyone as well adjusted as Sarah Palin in the...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Max Boot so wants another war. Just two are for pansies. Ross notes: It's hard for me to believe that Putin's Russia is both an aggressive, expansive power poised to rebuild the Soviet Empire at tank-point and that the Russians...
Ross Notes (Free subscription) | 27/07/2008
I posted this on Ross Notes, before it went off the air. I had an additional thought today– with a revenue sharing or payment system, this could be a new model for *commercial* software as well. ———– Easy: they should expose a gdata API for AppEngine itself. Developers would need to support AppEngine’s restrictions and quirks (but not exclusively, [...]
Ross Notes (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
(I posted this to Ross Notes on 7/15, a few days before I ended that blog. I figured this was relevant enough to repost here) On the just-released Gary’s Guide DC events page: The mapping bit is nice We both have events the other doesn’t Offering a daily events subscription is an interesting choice. The design is nice and clean The [...]
Ross Notes (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Ross Notes was getting old and confused. It started off as a place for random musings, but suffered many attempts to focus it’s content in particular areas– from “the bloggers blog of Harrisburg” to “technology, media, and culture in and around DC”. For most of 2008, it’s simply been a place to stick ‘dc tech [...]
Ross Notes (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Ross Notes is gone. In it’s place are: the DC Tech Events blog for your local events goodness the EVENTGRINDER blog where I will write about the editorial system I’m building for calendaring Ross & Found (this blog) for anything else I feel like writing. If you want all three, subscribe to this RSS feed. More details on all this [...]
Radar (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
New Yorker music writer Alex Ross notes that:Two more classical critics have fallen by the wayside: Paul Horsley at the Kansas City Star and Lawrence Johnson at the Miami Herald. Johnson will continue to cover music at a blog called South Florida
