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The title of this project “A Moment in Time” is interesting given that one could spend an entire day browsing the photographs.

Fascinating!

I had a great feeling of civic pride watching the video found here: Minneapolis named America’s best city for biking

My favorite day of the entire year this year was our bike to school day a few weeks ago. All the bike racks were full and we rode in with a bike group of kids from all over the city. Awesome.

Finally, I had no idea about this website, Mpls Bike Love, but I’ll be frequenting it now!

“Money is like gasoline during a road trip, you don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn’t be about the money.”

–Tim O’Reilly profiled in inc.com magazine

(Via kottke.org.)

Qwest finally got its act together in my neighborhood, and we’re enjoying some decent speeds. (12mbps) As nice as it is to have two options for broadband instead of one, we seriously lag our european counterparts when it comes to broadband access.

Not only that, but the Verizons, Comcasts and Qwests would have you believe that “we’re number one, U.S.A., U.S.A!”

That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Not only do we lag in broadband adoption, the speeds of “broadband” lag significantly, and we pay more for it.

Typically, the lowest price for broadband in the United States, not counting promotions and bundled deals, costs an average of $35 a month for a measly 1 megabit per second connection. Twice this speed is available in Denmark and Canada for lower prices; more strikingly, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Sweden have broadband available for under $20 a month. Additionally, the fastest speeds in the United States are comparatively slow. The common top speed available for residential services in the Unites States is 50 Mbps (and costs $145 a month), while several nations have speeds available that are up to four times faster, for less than $60 a month.

Our best chance is to support the idea net-neutrality and the National Broadband Plan. Of course this plan isn’t perfect, and it doesn’t go nearly far enough in ensuring that Americans will have the same types of access enjoyed by other nations, but it is a start.

Check out this slate article for more info: Denial of Service

are you there?

it’s me.

A.J.

in fact, I love abba so much, I purchased SingStar Abba edition for 9.99 at GameStop.

If you’re wondering why I haven’t been posting as much lately, let’s just say that she’s been keeping us busy:

(she’s running away from me, back towards the street. there is danger and excitement in the street!)

In the last few weeks, she’s really becoming independent. She may look innocent here, but there is trouble written all over that face.