This blog entry is a follow up to the last one: Losing Your Creativity I am sure that Google could serve up a zillion ideas about how to nurture your creativity; I searched my self and found a pretty decent article about creativity in the workplace (you can read it by clicking here). But instead…
Category: Public Works
Control the Snow – Part 3
Although this entry is not a direct synopsis from the recent APWA Snow Show that I attended, it is definitely related. My friend, Martin Brown, has a great blog about new technology being used in England for snow and ice control. You can check it out by visiting his fairsnape/isite blog.
Control the Snow – Part 2
Continuing on with a synopsis of a few of the sessions I recently attended at the APWA Snow Show held in April of this year in Louisville, Kentucky: One of the great benefits of attending a conference is the chance to find out what is new in our industry from others who are already using…
Control the Snow
In today’s world, rapid changes in technology are even reaching into the world of snow and ice control. I just spend three days at the annual APWA Snow Show in Louisville, Kentucky, and learned an incredible amount of new information to take back home. On the first day, Richard Hanneman from the Salt Institute introduced…
Popular Mechanics – Not your father’s magazine anymore
This week I was reading an e-mail with an interesting link that ended up taking me to the Popular Mechanics Magazine Web site. Wow, was I surprised at the content I found there. You have to understand my father was an service manager for an automobile dealer and a loyal subscriber of Popular Mechanics. Therefore,…
Avatars for Web sites
Today I was told about a new application (thanks Mal Burns!) that allows someone to establish a tiny avatar, called a weblin, that is displayed on each Web page that is visited. If anyone else with a weblin is visiting that page at the same time, each person can see the others weblin and chat…
Virtual SCADA – A Real and Virtual World Mashup
Physicist Alfred Hubler, a professor at the University of Illinois, has created the first mixed reality state in a physical system. Hubler and Vadas Gintautas, a graduate student at the school, set up a system that passed data between a virtual pendulum and a real pendulum about the physical state of each. While the real…
Using Second Life to Teach Building Codes
Because I initially joined Second Life as a means of promoting the awesome community that I live and work in, my primary focus was always to find displays or builds that would help our city reach out to the community. One of the ideas I had thought about implementing was a “Code House” – a…
Earth Hour 2008
Just a quick note to call everyone’s attention to the Earth Hour 2008 Web site and movement. Find out more and register your commitment at the Earth Hour 2008 site.
Oh where have all the good consultants gone?
I don’t know what it is with our city, but we have never been able to find an engineering consultant that can actually deliver a design of a treatment system, water or wastewater, that works or that meets our design and operation requirements. With the ever growing number of engineering consultants out there, how can…