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I am attending WordCampNYC
I’m attending WordCampNYC 2009 (and am completely psyched for it)
Go see Bob Mould while he is on tour with a band
If you live in Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or San Diego you would be nuts not to go see Bob Mould while he is on tour with a band (those are the remaining dates).
He is traveling with Jason Narducy (ex Verbow) on Bass and John Wurster (ex Superchunk) on Drums.
I experienced an excellent show last week in Boston, at the Paradise.
Tour dates here: http://granarymusic.com/tour/dates/ or here: http://bobmould.com/shows
A little video taste of the show is here:
and a photo here:
Netflix Competitors Learn the Power of Teamwork – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/technology/internet/28netflix.html
The biggest lesson learned, according to members of the two top teams, was the power of collaboration. It was not a single insight, algorithm or concept that allowed both teams to surpass the goal Netflix,……Instead, they say, the formula for success was to bring together people with complementary skills and combine different methods of problem-solving.
The sad thing is that somebody had to put up a million bucks to figure that out.
Sigh.
Apiary Update – Up to 6 Hives
Lots of activity in the bee yard this weekend…
Found some queen cups and cells in Macintosh – here you can see a new queen is chewing her way out of the bottom of the circled cell.
The bees have started capping honey for the winter. Hope there will be enough good weather and plants for them to make some for us, too.
With the new queen emerging from Mac, I split her off into her own “nuc” (nucleus hive). The newest one is the third from the left with the blue-colored center box. So we are up to 3 full size hives (for honey production) and 3 nucs (to overwinter for full hives next season).
