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We’ve been having some interesting background discussion in the Society about things blog-wise. (Why is it the most interesting discussions are on e-mail?) There are a lot of issues to consider about the appropriate role for blogs in the ACS and the risks involved in supporting internal (e.g., FISpace) and external blogs. Well, at least we’re probing the matter…with vigor.

This morning I went into Walnut Creek to do a little early Christmas shopping while my wife’s out of town. WC is the upscale shopping hub of the East Bay. The beautiful, the tony shop there—what an old friend of mine used to call “the glossies.” It’s also one of the few places in the Bay Area, I’ll wager, you’ll ...

Wired News: It Works: Rural Health-Care Tech PDAs to do rurual health–sort of like C-Tools.

I finished reading Paul Robert’s The End of Oil, a book referenced in an earlier post about the possible end of oil production growth and the consequences of that. All I can say is that I learned a lot about the world energy situation and the supply system, but I didn’t come out of it with any sense of empowerment. ...