I’ve been trying to get back into cycling, not as an athlete — I’m no athlete — but as a commuter and for recreation.
This morning I found myself relating to issues brought up today in a New York Times’ article about Times Up! tactics and sites like MyBikeLane.com, which are responses to automobiles regularly disrespecting [...]
Justice in cycling, cycling for justice
May 4th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: bicycling · bike lanes · DC · traffic · transportation · urban planning · Washington
Revisiting Refresh
April 23rd, 2008 No Comments
Tonight I quietly resurrected my attendance at Refresh DC. The first one I went to took place in a meeting room at the Library of Congress. My former colleague Jackson Wilkinson spoke at it, evangelizing Microformats — something he had recently encountered and gotten us both interested in as an extension of our shared [...]
Tags: community · DC · Refresh · web development
Catching up
March 16th, 2008 No Comments
It has been hard to write.
Many drafts with not just incomplete thoughts, but incomplete sentences, sit neglected in the queue right now.
In just this past week, I’ve been paying attention to Eliot Spitzer’s resignation from the office of governor in my home state; the security culture here in Washington as more CCTVs go up, as [...]
Tags: DC · fire · Mount Pleasant · Washington · writing