Alternatives

I'm fascinated by the idea of a having a new way to get where I'm going.

It might be a forest trail in an urban park near my house rather than walking the dog on a sidewalk 300 meters and a world away.

Or it might be riding a bike on a trail through my city and seeing an entirely different point of view from that which you get looking out of a car on traveling the streets. Same city, different experience entirely.

Or it even be going out of my way and taking a tourist train from the next city over instead of calling for a ride from the airport :-)

These alternatives are just that - different ways to experience the same places but in a way that feels more connected, more thoughtful and slowed-down.

We humans desire connectedness and in fact we go crazy when we are isolated.

Once in a while

I take a break and let life wash over me . Today is going to be a day for that.

Took the girls to school today. It's amazing how the simplest things can be so enjoyable.

Google Wave

So sad to see Google throw in the towel on Google Wave.

In retrospect the obvious is pretty clear - the way to get mass wave adoption was to build a really solid bridge between SMTP, IM, and Twitter/ostatus worlds.

Yes, I know people did build those all of those connections and more but the wave team was a fairly small team and they didn't focus on making any of those Google production ready which would have led to people coming to depend on them as a primary inbox type of application.

I still think the concept of a live, read/write, communicating web world is where we are headed.  Wave was definitely ahead of its time.

Long trip

The trip home was longer than normal. I was able to use public transport the whole way.

On the way home I walked past St. Bernard's church - it was the first day of the combined parish. The bells started ringing and the sky was pure blue on a warm summer day. Perfection!

School days

We're meeting with the principal and teacher in a bit...

iPad

Review -- I think this is a great way to surf at very low power.

Also - reading is immersive enough that I have gone through a couple of books on the thing.

Salt Fork 2010