Archive for July, 2004

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July 9, 2004



Mr. Nate Koechley
XXXX Guerrero Street
San Francisco, California  94110-XXXX

Dear Mr. Koechley:

Thank you for contacting me to express your support for HR 4067, the 
Climate Stewardship Act of 2004.  I appreciate hearing from you on this 
issue, and I agree with you.

HR 4067, introduced by Representative Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), would 
curb global warming by establishing a cap on greenhouse gas emissions from 
electric utilities, major industrial and commercial facilities and 
transportation fuel refiners. HR 4067 has been referred to the House 
Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality of the Energy and Commerce Committee.  
No further action has been taken.

The overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree that the earth's 
atmosphere is warming and that human activities, especially the release 
of carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels, are contributing 
to the warming trend.  Without significant reductions in greenhouse gas 
emissions, the earth's surface temperature is predicted to rise 2.5( to 
10.4( F by 2100.  The effects of global warming will be widespread and 
potentially devastating both to human society and to ecosystems around 
the world.  Please be assured that I will support this bill should it 
be considered by the full House.

For more information on this and other issues affecting our country, I 
invite you to visit my website at www.house.gov/pelosi.

Thank you again for taking the time to express your views on this 
important issue.  I hope you will continue to communicate with me on matters 
of concern to you.

Sincerely,


Nancy Pelosi
Member of Congress

I was in NYC over the Fourth of July weekend. Hopping off the from-Brooklyn subway, I popped onto Canal Street looking for some mix tapes. They have all the bootleg software booths too, and as I paused to look at one at one of the displays, I saw my coworkers face staring back at me for a book cover.

I guess that when your book makes it to the carts on Canal Street you’ve penetrated pop culture to a special degree.

As previously noted, I’m working on a project with Hillman Curtis, who’s book it is.

Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends blog has a cool post of the future of video conferencing? Using blended images and transparency, it’s not possible to have a single point of focus while working via videoconference. Haven’t used it — not much of a vid-conf user anyways - but seems cool. I do remember how great it was when Apple’s iSight had the nexted self-image.

Here’s a screenshot from his site.

There are some excellent, functional, helpful and useful Yahoo! search shortcuts that save time and provide information. These features are a reason that I like using Y! search. The automatic mapping, word definitions, area code lookup, and yellow-pages integration are real timesavers.

Moving to new york city has been a pretty consistent thought lately. With that in mind, I ended up on some NYC Real Estate sites. Since it’s just for fun now, but I might need there later, i decided to capture them here.

• http://www.curbed.com/ - good neighborhood info, with a real estate focus
• http://www.mrbellersneighborhood.com/ - seems to be blog entries mapped geographically over a NYC map.
• http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/ - lower east side tenement museum.
• http://www.skyscraper.org/timeformations/intro.html - totally cool layered view of NYC, crossed by time.
• http://www.nycsubway.org/ - unofficial subway site with history and flavor.