Busy day… Lots of work stuff not much to report highlight of the day was driving an hour up to Shore AcresRestaurant in north hero for the goodbye dinner for the IBM smarter cities team.
They were nice enough to invite Diane and me to their final dinner.It was team member Robert's birthday today. The shore acres restaurant was a perfect setting for a party
I'll really miss these guys.
night all nite sam
– Me
The high point of my day was going to City Hall to watch the smarter city's Team that has been here in Burlington readout to the mayor into the rest of the city. For the last three weeks they been talking to hundreds of people across Burlington and the surrounding area. They're looking at ways of reducing carbon especially techniques around Burlington's newly installed Smart meters.
There are six people on the team and there from all over the world from France from Brazil from Germany from the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and even as far away as Syracuse New York. It's been really great getting to know them. I can imagine how fun it was working on something like this for three solid weeks basically outside of the requirements of your existing job
It was interesting to see what they Presented today. They had chosen for different areas to focus on including Smart Meters, biomass, electric vehicles. What underpinned all of it was the notion of data integration. They Highlighted the need to collect data to form a good baseline for current power levels, the need to share that data both inside and outside of the city To break down interdepartmental barriers and the ability to share that data as open data with the community. That all resonated very much with me.
We were really proud to have them here in the city. I hope they enjoyed themselves as well.
While I was at Townhall I took a quick peek over at the Burlington firehouse Gallery to make sure the Floersch piece was still working well. There was a great group of people on the device as I walked over. It made me really happy.
Thanks to Collins work we can now login remotely to Extend and maintain the piece. It's pretty fun to be able to login and see people playing with it. Here's what it looks like From home. When people are playing pong
Ok.. Time for bed.. Moretomorrow
Nite all, nite sam
-me
Standing outside late at night on a beautiful starry night. I walked outside because I needed to blog and since I do it verbally I believe it's unnerving for the family to hear me speaking to no one in particular. Well I guess I'm speaking to you
Good busy day today nothing special to report. the big news was that I migrated my hard disk today on my new computer to one of those fancy solid-state discs. That's not that newsworthy On its own but migrating a hard disk of any sort is kind of like doing a personal inventory. In the course of deciding what I had to move and what I could leave behind I had to go through hundreds know maybe even thousands of pictures personal letters records receipts have started code projects crash log files etc. etc. etc.
It's kind of like a personal archaeological dig… The bits and pieces of data are kind of shadow of what you might've been doing at any particular point in time. What's interesting is this particular disc has been migrated on let me think maybe five machines so it goes back at least about 10 years in those 10 years so much as happened. I wonder about future generations do you through all of our digital detritus and trying to make sense of our lives (as if they made sense now.)
Well I'm now comfortably on the other side of that migration and very happy with the speed of my new technology. I now have at least three copies of my last 10 years of my life and I'm projecting forward to some archaeologists or data archaeologist in the future that I hope you enjoy going through it at least as much as I did 🙂
Night all, night sam
–me
All day long I've tried to avoid looking at the news. I keep getting glimpses of the carnage in Boston and try to look away. Ultimately I'm not able to do that. I look at the articles I see the blood see the smoke see the grieving parents… I cannot look away.
The magnitude of the tragedy in Boston is made more real to me by the fact that I just lived down the street. I know the streets I know that hills I know the sidestreets. I cannot believe that that could happen so close to where I once lived where my sister and brother lived where my parents now live.
My father ran the Boston Marathon several times. I remember meeting him at the finish line just wear these explosions occurred. I remember going out and eating Japanese or Chinese food each time. I remember how tired and happy he was at the end of those races. That's a happy memory.
Now the Boston Marathon… And Patriots' Day are scarred will never be the same. We'll get through this as everyone says but it Will be a reminder to us just like 9/11 or the remembrance of any other such terrible day.
My heart goes out to everyone who is impacted by the blasts in Boston… And I'm guessing that's everyone who's reading this.
Night all, night Sam
– Me
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