Over the past couple of days I’ve managed to squeeze in two strong 20 mile rides on the backroads of Buckingham, Pa. Lots of hills and little traffic. Today, one of the local club riders latched onto my back tire for the last 4 miles of the ride (which upped the pace a bit). Here’s a look at the out-and-back route (click here to see the whole route):
I was quoted recently in a story on President Obama’s March 19th historic appearance on The Tonight Show (the story was written by my friend, Sarah Prial, a reporter for Sacred Heart University’s Spectrum):
“Mike Maney, a veteran public relations executive at Zer0 to 5ive Communications out of Philadelphia, shared his views from a public relations standpoint.
‘There are some [political] camps who believe Obama’s appearance lessened the office of the President, that it should be above entertainment,’ said Maney. ‘There are other camps who believe that his appearance represents a President who is trying every channel he can to communicate to the American people.’”
I caught a glimpse of the lid of this guy’s MacBook while I was walking through the Austin Convention Center at SXSW this past weekend. Fewer truer words have been said.
What better way to get ready for the flying white stuff than with a few shots of yours truly enjoying the deep and fluffy of Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Me? The best I could do this morning was rank 8th on the all-time list of scorers in Hackettstown High School soccer’s history.
Scientists — explorers, more accurately — fired up the Large Hadron Collider to recreate conditions of the Big Bang. Do they know what they’ll find? They have ideas, but the excitement of what they don’t know they’ll find makes this a brave and important experiment. Teachers from kindergarten to college should take a minute today to highlight this ambitious scientific advancement, to use it as an example of why science is so vital to what makes us human, and to encourage their students to break through the boundaries of the possible to push the boundaries of what might be possible.
As if I needed another reason not to vote for McCain and Palin (courtesty of the Associated Press):
Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the
United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a “task that is
from God.”
When I was a kid I rode a HARO BMX bike. It was cool. Today, HARO is cool for another reason. In the spirit of helping reporters and improving the public relations profession, I encourage everyone to: Get Sourced. Get Quoted. Get Famous: http://www.helpareporter.com – Putting Journalists and Sources together, one quote at a time.
It seems for most of my career I’ve been attracted to technology that, for many, would seem more like science than technology. I’ve been privileged to work with some of the founding father’s of UNIX as they developed the Plan 9 distributed operating system. I’ve worked with smart people like John Patrick and Mike Nelson to promote the next generation Internet and Internet2. I’ve promoted high performance servers at what may rightly be called one of the original server makers, Unisys. And I’ve had the opportunity to be part of the Linux/open source movement through work with OSDL (now The Linux Foundation) and Sourceforge.
It is these complex, advanced technologies that drive the foundation of the services we use today — things like TiVo, portable GPS systems, cell phones, and the powerful backbone that enables us to watch broadcast TV on our laptops. One emerging area to keep an eye on is high performance computing (quote below from a fine article by reporter Jim Romeo in LinuxWorld):
“Today, many more organizations are able to take advantage of High Performance Computing, due to the ready availability of inexpensive compute clusters powered by Linux running on off-the-shelf x86 hardware, as opposed to the proprietary hardware and software of yesterday’s supercomputers,’ says Sam Charrington, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Appistry, Inc.”
For many, convergence is the collision of telephone, television and Internet. For me, convergence is the collision of open source, server farms and F1-level networking.
Mike Maney 