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19-April-2009

Irv found an amusing Cleveland tourism video.
(tags: cleveland ohio tourism payphones) (permalink)

08-March-2009

Summit county's sandstone caves host a previously unknown species of crustacean.
(tags: caves ohio reminderville crustaceans) (permalink)

29-January-2009

Brecksville dam: should it stay or go?
(tags: brecksville ohio dam environment river cuyahoga) (permalink)

05-April-2008

Russ informs us that Geauga Lake rides are being auctioned.
(tags: geaugalake cleveland aurora ohio amusementparks auctions) (permalink)

28-March-2008

Corporate espionage! Right here in Northeast Ohio.
(tags: corporate espionage lubrizol ohio) (permalink)

17-January-2008

Cycorp, the company that now maintains the Cyc Project is hiring in Cleveland. Dunno why. Amusingly, they require: Applicants should have experienced first-hand the creation and rollout of a commercial software product, or else should possess a good sense of humor.
(tags: cyc artificialintelligence ai cleveland ohio jobs) (permalink)

28-December-2007

Dalek -- the alternative hip-hop duo, not the insane alien from Doctor Who -- will be in Cleveland February 28.
(tags: dalek music cleveland ohio) (permalink)

30-July-2007

Cell phone pics of my trip to Cincinnati.
(tags: cincinnati ohio ohioriver serpentinewall) (permalink)

21-July-2007

There's a new report out about Ohio's lost backup tape. It says: One of the unfortunate ironies of this theft is that OAKS administrators allowed callow interns to take home backup tapes in order to protect the data in the event of a disaster at the OAKS facility and to save money. Ironies? or stupidities? It's smart to move your backups off-site to protect your data from loss. It's stupid to do it in an insecure way, because that fails to protect it from exposure. Ohioans want their data protected from both loss and exposure. (via Jim.)
(tags: computers ohio data backups) (permalink)

BTW: You can find out if your personal info was on the stolen backup tape on this web page: http://ohio.gov/idprotect/lookup/lookup.aspx. Free identity protection for a year if you are.
(tags: ohio computers fraud) (permalink)

20-June-2007

There are bald eagles nesting in the Cuyahoga Valley.
(tags: ohio wildlife bald eagles) (permalink)

03-June-2007

Ohio comes from an Seneca word meaning "large creek".
(tags: ohio etymology indians) (permalink)

31-January-2007

Flickr photostream: signs in Cleveland. Neat.
(tags: cleveland ohio) (permalink)

01-December-2006

I just finished reading a biography of Eliot Ness. Some parts of it were good, but some were not so well-written. It strikes me as a bit sad that for all his hard rocking, he ended up poor and died young and it was Hollywood that made all the money off his legacy.
(tags: eliot ness chicago cleveland ohio crime biography) (permalink)

15-October-2006

Best politician name ever? Zack Space for congress!
(tags: politics ohio zackspace) (permalink)

09-October-2006

The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History contains much of interest.
(tags: cleveland ohio) (permalink)

10-September-2006

The streets of Boston (Ohio) are jammed with (vintage) cars. There were a bunch of Corvairs there today for some reason.
(tags: autos ohio corvair) (permalink)

07-September-2006