Marc Orchant has been one of the bright lights of my experience with blognation to date.Last night, he suffered from a massive heart attack. My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. I know Marc has a solid fighting spirit and I really, really hope he pulls through this.
Update (December 9th): Sad News. [...]
Yes, it has been quiet on the blog. Too quiet in fact and here is some background information as to why and what’s being done about it.
Background
“People are concerned about your blog.” In the hushed world of banking, this was a clear sign that I was in trouble. People didn’t like my blog and it [...]
It’s been 6 years since the horrible events of that day. To commemorate, here are 6 small observations about that date:
6 years ago: “We Will Never Forget.” Today: “Time to Move on”. It seems there’s an expiration date on national grief.
6 terms most Americans didn’t know 6 years ago:
Osama Bin Laden
Al Qaeda
Patriot Act
Department of [...]
While the blog appears to have gone silent, it’s not for lack of effort on my part but my attention has been pointed in other places. Check out the following:
Bill Wadman is not only a great photographer with a fascinating project (365 portraits in 365 days) but appears to be an all around nice guy. [...]
A milestone is reached as TNL.net now has 500 entries. To celebrate this landmark, I look at entries from the past.
Sorry for the lack of updates but I’ve been really busy on the following projects:
Selling our 1 bedroom apartment in Manhattan: We’re having another open house this weekend so you can check out all the details here (and please forward this to any of your friends looking for a great place in the city. It’s [...]
It's been 5 years and I still have nightmares. Does the pain ever go away?
I have trouble sleeping. While I thought I was coping well with the loss of friends on 9/11, it stills seems not to be the case. I found myself dreaming of planes crashing into buildings and people falling out of them. [...]
It appears that Bloglines has stopped updating a number of feeds from well known blogs. For example, my subscriptions do not seem to reflect changes to blogs like Boing Boing, Dave Winer’s Scripting News, Doc Searls, and a lot more have not been updating on Google in days, if not weeks. I initially thought it [...]
After many years of using my own blog software, something I had written myself and tended to over the years, I finally threw the towel in and decided to upgrade. Here are a few things that I learned in the process.
Making the Decision
The first, and probably toughest, part of this migration was to actually make [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, TNL.net recently experienced a major crash. As a result, I had to rethink a lot of things and took the time of looking into what tools I was using. Well, it’s been about 5 years since I started writing my own blog software and I decided that this little piece of [...]
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