The following is a letter that I e-mailed via the Governor’s feedback form, as well as sent to my state senator George Della, and state representatives Peter Hammen, Carolyn Krysiak, and Brian McHale. So far, I have only heard back from Della and McHale. I tried to customize it for each delegate as I hate form letters. Governor O’Malley, My name is Greg Walsh and I am a resident of Patterson Park in Baltimore City. After ten years of working in the e-learning industry in Maryland, I am now a graduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park and my wife is an employee at the State Health Department. ...

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I just moved my RSS Feed from the Retrofit default to Feedburner (a google company). Let’s hope it works!

I’m surprised this list doesn’t have a slide rule. I would love to be able to use an abacus. Gallery: Low-Tech Computers From Prehistory to Today | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.

Attention Janey Fan Club Members$, there are new pics up at: Flickr Page

For every year that I have lived here, there has been a Bike Jam. I’m not sure why, but, we never went to one until today. It was pretty cool. Blue Cross was giving away bike helmets for kids, a guy from Bike Baltimore gave me a map, an insurance salesmen was giving away water bottles, and the music was pretty good. Plus, we got to see some pro teams race around the park that we run and bike in. Very cool… ...

I met a rep from Bike Baltimore today at Bike Jam 2009. I’m not sure who it was, but I think the dude gave me his personal copy of a bike map because I asked if he had one with road grades on it and he pulled one out of his bag and gave it to me. Thank Bike Baltimore! You saved me $6 that I was going to send to UMBC to order my own. ...

The guy who invented Mathmatica is developing a search tool that answers questions. Instead of it giving you a list of possible results, it searches its own database of content (based on Wikipedia among others) and formulates the answer for you. I know Google REALLY wants to give people the answer they’re looking for on the first try…maybe they will buy/license his technology! Stephen Wolfram Reveals Radical New Formula for Web Search | Epicenter. ...

So I’ll be off to CHI next week. Here is my poster that I’ll be displaying: And here is the paper: Wii Can Do It Wish me luck!

‘“IP cubed”: Games with rich story lines that can be extended into other media, giving fans the opportunity to delve in as deeply as they want.’ I think Heroes followed this too…oh how many hours did I spend reading the heroes comics and then realize the actual product wasn’t as good as the spin-offs meant to push it. SXSW: Dead Space, a ‘Deep Media’ Case Study | Game | Life from Wired.com. ...