So, this afternoon, I got an e-mail from the NYTimes company that they were shutting down their 'Times File' section do to the overwhelming response to services like Furl, Del.icio.us, Newsvine, LinkedIn, etc, etc, etc, and that I should repost my saved articles to one of the aboved named services with all due haste, thank you very much, but we got ( Read more... )

Talk about a whirlwind.  Left work at the normal time, which means I was in the house, changed, check the e-mail, and charged the phone then out the door by 6pm.  Managed to get to t he stop on the G train for the venue by about 7pm, despite having lost the directions and needing to interview a few BK bound hipsters for which stop to get out at.  ( Read more... )

As some of you may have already heard, the 6th tornado in the recorded history of the 5 boroughs ripped through (and I have to stifle a giggle here) parts of Brooklyn.  Also more recently known as the borough rapidly becoming overpopulated with upwardly mobile Manhattanites or those who would be them.  Amusingly, the typical 'warrior's heart' that ( Read more... )