This is always fun to watch when you are not stuck in the car in the city downtown and have to wait 15 min until all the bikers have passed by. Critical Mass supposedly was started in San Francisco 16 years ago. I think if this helps to get people on bicycles then let’s keep on riding.
Watch the video from the WSJ to see how this works (or how it does not work).
Answer the Riddle:
What do you call a boy born between cannons on a British warship?
Come back in few minutes to participate in a little word game organized by DK. Check out this website for details:
http://www.bodyabcs.com/bwp/word-games/
One of the benefits of living in the Bay Area (if you are interested in the Internet and technology) is the abundant collection of geeks and technology companies around here. You don’t even have to travel much in most cases to feel like you are part of the action since many conferences and talks happen pretty much in your backyard.
On Saturday is the San Francisco WordCamp 2008. I was there last year, but for different reasons, and since I finally started this blog I can obviously not pass on the opportunity to go again. One of the highlights of WordCamp 2007 was Matt Cutts talk about Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers. Follow this link to get all the details, slides, etc.
I am sure there will be exciting new things to learn and I will post some thoughts afterwards.
Once in a while, usually after you have figured out all the missing pieces yourself, you realize that there was a nice collection of information available that would have saved you countless hours. This is what happened to me with this guide-for-new-us-immigrants. This is what I would have liked to have about 11 years ago when I first came to the U.S. to study for a couple of months in Hawaii. How do I find an apartment? How do I open a bank account? What kind of documents do I need? It’s amazing, it’s all there.
Even for a lot of Americans the history part and the part about the political system and election systems would probably be a great refresher for the upcoming elections. For a foreigner who wants to live, work, or study here, this is a great starting document to learn a bit more various aspects of living in the U.S.