I’m here in Peterborough, Ontario, where my partner Caitlin and I met and where we lived 15 years ago. Today I drove past a place I lived in up in Lakefield, north of the city, where I took a room at the tender age of just-gone-eighteen. After 20 years, the house is still there and the town remarkably familiar. We are travelling here and to Ottawa and Toronto to visit places we have lived so that our kids (now aged 9 and 5) can get a sense of some of the life their parents had before they were …
Off to Chicago to celebrate the life partnership of friends Michael Herman and Jill Perkins. I’m looking forward to a weekend of fun and merriment and celebration of these two people. I have had the pride and pleasure to work with Michael for five years now on some amazing projects in Open Space, including an important summit in Alaska in 2002, to co-editing of the Open Space Technology Users NON-Guide, the Giving Conference in 2004 and practice workshops all over the place. I met Jill at the Gioving Conference in 2004 and have rarely laughed so hard with someone. She …
So it says here that 38 is, among other things notable because: 38! – 1 yields 523022617466601111760007224100074291199999999, which is a factorial prime. There is no answer to the equation φ(x) = 38, making 38 a nontotient. 38 is the sum of the squares of the first three primes. 37 and 38 are the first pair of consecutive positive integers not divisible by any of their digits. 38 is the largest even number which cannot be written as the sum of two odd composite numbers. Also, it’s the number of games played by each team in the English Premiership, the atomic …
I’m no expert but I spent much of yesterday trying to fix my new Dell laptop’s connection to the web. I was getting a wireless connection but was totally unable to view web pages. With linksys support on the router I deleved around in the guts of the machine but we couldn’t fix it. They did help me get a gateway IP again, which seemed to be one problem. Searching the Dell forums for help I discovered WinSock XP Fix and ran it. The problem was immediately resolved. Dells aside (I have never set up a …
Parking Lot…ranked above the fold on Google for: beatitudes and commandments starbucks customer relations Examples of Great Websites appreciative inquiry experiences fido fido prepaid phone cards …and that’s just from today. Interesting thing is that the posts on fido and Starbucks were both highly critical of their customer service. In the case of the last link, I actually rank number one, obviously higher that fido’s own website. This blogging thing…it works? [tags]blogging, google, fido, starbucks[/tags]