Google Street View Cars Forced to Paint Road Lines While Driving the Streets of Nashville

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This preachy moment…

Brought to you by:I’m obsessed with this book. I go to bed saying “I freaking love this book. Oh, man. I’m already too late in planting peas for the season. I wonder where I can get organic tomato seeds” And then…”Oh, yeah, I have a 75% shade yard. MAN!” It’s the most well written, food loving, life enhancing book I’ve read. I already really loved Barbara Kingsolver–I practically wanted to crawl into the Poisonwood Bible–but this book is a REAL book about... [Read the full story]

Rent

I saw Rent on Saturday. It was aboslutely fantastic. I had only seen the movie before, and wow was I blown away by the shear human factor of this play. I laugh, I cried, and I sang along. It was fantastic. Please enjoy this really crappy cell phone photo of Seasons of Love: This photo almost got me kicked out. We weren’t allowed cameras, but they didn’t say anything about camera phones! The usher-lady yelled at me when she saw my phone. Crazy. But it was worth it! I’ve heard that Rent will end its run... [Read the full story]

Pleading the case for a VentureSummitCentral

In a presentation at the 2008 (4th Annual Nashville Technology Council) Conference here on the Innovation Plantation entitled “The Race to Capitalize on Growing Demand” as reported by Milt Capps there is a perception that seed-stage funding is lacking here-abouts. If a VentureSummitCentral took place at say Gaylord Opryland and Hotel right next to the place where those new fangled aeroplanes land and takeoff then maybe some of those Silicon Valley or Route 128 types might discover the local hidden gems.  Read More →

Open Source in European Health Care European Federation for Medical Informatics Special Topic Conference, September 9-11, 2008

Organized by the IMIA and EFMI Open Source Working Groups and taking place at the BCS Meeting Rooms Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA, UK, the conference will explore the current and future issues related to open source in healthcare. In particular, there will be a focus on health records, ubiquitous computing, knowledge sharing, and current and future applications. The Conference will consist of invited plenary speakers and workshops, and is designed to actively engage the delegates. More here.  Read More →

Google Maps adds Nashville Street View

So today I went to provide someone with a Google Map link to our house. When I pulled the address up on my browser I noticed a small picture of my house! Wow. So I clicked it and there it was … a view of my street. As I zoomed-out I noticed that I was on the very outskirts of what the Google Maps team had been doing in Nashville. Driving around in their cars taking millions of photo’s of almost every street in Nashville. So, go check out Google Maps and see if you have Street View.  Read More →

Google Maps adds Nashville Street View

So today I went to provide someone with a Google Map link to our house. When I pulled the address up on my browser I noticed a small picture of my house! Wow. So I clicked it and there it was ... a...  Read More →

Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education (SCUPE) 2008 Congress on Urban Ministry, April 15-18, Chicago

SCUPE offers experiential learning that allows the city to touch the heart and the heart to reach out to the city. Academic courses prepare individuals with information and skills to become effective agents of transformation in our urban world. SCUPE partners and collaborates with seminaries, universities, denominations, churches, organizations, community groups, and individuals seeking ways to join God’s mission in the world with their mission in the city. Congress agenda here.  Read More →

JC Lacal on the Open Source Consulting Model and Rationale

JC sends out an occasional newsletter, [Seamless Health], and in today’s edition he included a brief explanation of his company’s open source model which I thought was worth posting: In the software industry there are two main types of business models: a.) The Adobe / Microsoft / Oracle model where users can not make changes to the software and they pay steep per-user licensing fees; and b.) The Free / Open Source Software (F/OSS) model where users can make any changes they need to the software and with no licensing... [Read the full story]

WorldVistA is a finalist in the Stockholm Challenge

Ignacio Valdes writes: The over all goal of the Stockholm Challenge is to help counteract social and economic disadvantage, wherever it occurs, by promoting the use of ICT for development. It is mostly targeted towards developing regions and community or social sectors such as gender equality and minorities with the greatest needs. The award invites projects in six different categories: * Public Administration * Education * Economic Development * Culture * Health * Environment WorldVistA’s entry: http://event.stockholmchallenge.se/project/2008/Health/WorldVistA  Read More →

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