Dan Dunn

Summit Meeting of FinCom, BOS and Sch Com on Thursday, January 11th from 7:00 to 10:00 PM in the Town Hall hearing room.  The first step is for the Summit participants to hear presentations on the five year revenue and expenditure projection, the School Infrastructure Working Group, Fire Stations Committee and Retired Employee Health Insurance […]

A few years ago I was agitating for change in how the town made technology decisions, but I didn’t have a plan. I knew things were wrong, but didn’t know how to fix them. Annie LaCourt shared many of my views, and she had the plan that I didn’t. With her leadership we got the […]

The Information Technology Advisory Committee will review the progress on the technology needs assessments with department heads. Location TBA. January 18th 2007, 5PM

It’s great when someone filters the internet for you, isn’t it?  A friend linked this one for me.  It’s work safe.  You need speakers to appreciate it.  And it’s three minutes long.

Yesterday’s lead headline in the Arlington Advocate: Sting Nets 3 Prostitutes And on the Arlington email list, Gabe Weiss writes the story: “I had to throw them back,” explained the rock star. “They were kinda small.”

I enjoy reading Jason Calacanis. Sometimes he’s insightful. Sometimes he’s just giving everyone else the finger. The tricky part is figuring out which posts are which. Is there enough money in advertising to sustain Web 2.0? Is Calacanis right, or is he just poking the Web 2.0 naysayers in the eye? Many companies failed in […]

The Arlington Advocate ran a story about a car that was set on fire in October. Run-of-the-mill crime story, right? Then you find out that the car was a 2006 Mercedes AMG S165 (V12 engine with 604 horesepower). Then you find out that it’s a rare car valued at $200,000. Then you find out that […]

Wired magazine reviewed the popular photo sharing sites and Tabblo got the highest score – we even edged out Flickr! We got 8, Flickr got 7, Webshots and Zoomr got 6, and down from there. It’s worth pointing out that when Wired reviewed the video iPod, it got an 8, too. For Wired, an 8 […]

New York Times created very neat graphic Voters Shift the House to the Democrats about the changes in the House of Representatives. It’s very dense informationally. I stared at it for a while. I was struck by how few of the races are competitive. 30-odd seats changed hands, but hundreds of seats didn’t even come […]

A few unconnected thoughts from the day: The most surprising results for me were the congressional races in New Hampshire.  Two scandal-free, relatively popular incumbents were kicked out.  Iraq? Uncontrolled federal spending? Civil liberty issues? Some fraction of each of these, I’m sure.  There were a number of “first time in a century” events in […]