San Jose, CA We’re planning a gathering of the good food movement, so naturally, the pursuit of good food is everything. Since arriving here yesterday I’ve eaten in three places, all of them good for various reasons. First, the Grill here at the Fairmont is crazy expensive, but if you cover your eyes and just order, the food is good. I had a cabrese salad with buffalo mozzerella that melted in my mouth and some lamb chops cooked on the rare side of medium rare (which is how I like them). Lamb was good, but the side …
God willing and this storm lets up, I’ll be bound for San Jose at 8am tomorrow morning, arriving in San Francisco at noon. No promises to be able to meet up with any Bay area friends, but if you get this, I’ll be staying at the Fairmont (no it’s NOT my usual digs…). Call me there at (408) 998 1900 and we’ll see what’s possible. Be nice just to say hi, and who knows, I might have time. Leaving Friday morning.
We`re living through a mighty big snowfall here on Bowen Island, the likes of which haven`t been seen for at least 40 years. As a result there is much handwringing about what other people should be doing about things like keeping the citizenry informed about the current road conditions and such. Most of our municipal government officials are on holiday and there have been no official releases of information since before the snow started falling on December 16. As a fan of passion bounded by responsibility, I decided yesterday morning to set up a weblog which provides a space …
The Friday “From the Feed” returns for 2009. Great finds by other people: John Dumbrille blogs Clay Shirkey talking about egov and citizen engagement. George Nemeth retweeted Valdis Krebs‘ link to a list of great ambient recordings from 2008. The Tyee publishes a great series of 10 new ideas for the new year The Edge posts its annual question edition: “What will change everything?” Jordon Cooper and Stowe Boyd on the best windows desktop and web apps of the year. I love posts like these. If you have others, add them in the comments.
Another year is drawing to a close and I’m feeling very tired and very excited about what the year has been like. Taking a cue from Viv, here is my end of year post. In general 2008 was a year of teaching and travel. For the first half of the year I was on the road for 120 days, visiting places throughout British Columbia as well as Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Nova Scotia and southwards to Washington, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida, New York, Michigan and Georgia. Most of the teaching I did was with my mates in the Art of …