The Authentic Eccentric

I’ve been hard at work on a project for one of my clients that has required tons of digging around the nooks and crannies of the web. During my travels I’ve run across a few sites of interest I thought I’d share.
Pluck - yes, another RSS reader and bookmark manager. I like the private label […]

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Our friends are reclaiming their New Orleans home - this is part II of their story.
We just returned from another recon mission into the city. This time the NOPD was back on duty manning the checkpoints and fewer National Guardsmen. They’ve all been shipped off to Texas where they are not needed… don’t […]

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My friend Monica is a New Orleans resident. When we were finally able to reconnect after Katrina, I asked her to keep me up to date on the situation. Here is her first-hand account of their trip back into New Orleans this last weekend, pre-Rita:
We snuck back into the city this weekend (9/18/05) and successfully […]

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Tapped out on cash to give? Tired of wall to wall blame game coverage of the hurricane, but still want to help? Put that restless energy to good use over at the Katrina PeopleFinder project.
This is a massive project and help is urgently needed now. For more information or to volunteer, drop over and read […]

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It took me a day or so to make it over, but Doc has an excellent post on our newly launched war on error that I think should be a must read for anyone beginning to lose patience with politics as usual. I’m not interested in assigning portions of blame - in my opinion, I […]

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Along with losing most everything they own, many of the hurricane survivors are also battling technology issues such as hosts under water, missing websites and no email. We’ve offered to help - since we just got our own shiny new server, we can take on up to 50 displaced sites - if anyone out there […]

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Inspired by Hugh Hewitt, marshaled by Glenn Reynolds, and organized by N.Z. Bear, nearly 700 bloggers from 11 countries have united today to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims. Last I checked, they had raised over $64,000 so far - keep on giving!
We’re especially fond of Matching The Good from our friends at Strengthen The […]

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It’s been a while since I’ve updated this site and I’m sorry about that. I haven’t been idle, however, and I thought I’d share some of what I’ve been doing and reviewing since I last posted.
Last week, I finally had a chance to eat at Positive Vibe Cafe here in Richmond. If the site is […]

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That was a lie.
I followed this post at SBB to this site where I encountered these words:
Today, the rights of individuals are being eroded: by government, by corporations, by society itself. This icon — the Individual-i — represents the rights of the individual.
It represents the right to privacy and anonymity in the information age. It […]

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