Now starts a new week, a new month, a new season. Behind me the falling forward feeling of the Saint John pilot proposal. Behind me the ingratitude over my UFS and histbeth efforts. The "why of waveplace" still holds, though it may not take form in the way we had planned. There's still the spirit of Papert, which is worthy of our passion. There's the rightness of OLPC, which sorely needs our support....

I'm amazed now thinking I've been back from Florida three weeks. Amazed at both how long and how short it seems, which usually means some life's been lived, which couldn't be truer for me these last weeks. Someday I'll write about our trials down in Florida with adoption and bureaucrats. I'll write when I've had more reflection and walkaway time. It's an amazing story. I'll also write about little Isabel and I finally driving into Bethlehem during Moravian Vespers, which my wife conducts, and Isabel spending her first hour in town listening to Paula's choir and watching handmade Christmas candles...

*teefal wakes as from a long dream, picks up pen and paper, and begins again* Four months ago, we finished the fruits of our work, Tidepool and Storymill, our self-named "Project Realize." The plan after finishing was to engage the blogerati and publicize ourselves with links across the blogosphere. Instead, as such things in the web world usually do, someone stole our thunder: Flickr got bought by Yahoo a week after our launch. They soon snapped up the mindshare we were after; Flickr's become quite the phenonemena, in an area we were aimed directly at. For a while there, it...

The last eight months have been for me a forced march through some pretty awful terrain ... chloe's death, my sister's cancer, some surreal brother battles, and .. and .. and .. and .. Hard to even write about this last one, this recent, rotted, overwhelming undertow. Some things are just bigger than words allow, and so with pathetic resignation I find myself talking in a trance, watching words babble out my mouth, feeling like I'm playing a harp with oven mitts. A month ago, my wife and I were joyful beyond measure, celebrating the birth of our adopted baby...

Three weeks since my last post, and a month before that one... guess I'm not doing too well on my one-a-day plan :) Here's the thing: wow. In the last two months we've been scrambling here at Immuexa like we've never scrambled before. If anyone remembers me & Jon at www2004, or me & the other Jon at FOAF-Galway ... multiply the intensity and drag it out for weeks. We've been on the edge of our big public release of Tidepool & Storymill since Thanksgiving. "When the apple is ripe, it will fall from the tree." Personally, it's been grueling....

Spent most of today adding photo functionality to a client's website so we could display some amazing flood photos, such as this one: Historic Bethlehem Partnership maintains all of these buildings, many of which mean a lot to me, as evidenced by my use of the 1762 Waterworks in the design of Lehigh Valley Storymill as well as the basis for the Storymill logo. Please give what you can. These buildings belong to everyone....

I started Cluetrain last night. Yeah, I know, I'm a little late in the game, though in some ways I'm not (written at the same time). The Cluetrain tone is actually where I started (both written pre-Web). Since then, my challenge has been in avoiding the corporate siren call before it dashes me against the inhuman rocks of pointless posturing. #33, Learning to speak with a human voice is not a parlor trick. It can't be "picked up" at some tony conference. My current project's been stressing me out, though not because of the tech or the schedule or the...

In Shelley Power's "The Value of Human on a Humanless Web", she talks about the mom scenerio in the Scientific American article: "Mom needs therapy? Oh no! Well, we'll work together and make sure she's taken care of!" In this picture, I search for available plans in the area and then call the hospitals and I talk to the people to see if I can trust them to take care of mother; neither I nor [my sister] is so busy as to begrudge the time taken. " While I agree with most of her article, this part rang false for...