The N.C. House Public Utilities Committee meets Wednesday morning to vote on the horrible Time Warner Cable bill “Level Playing Field Act.” also known as H1252/S1004. Please call the Committee members [PDF] and let them know what a horrible bill this is.
April 27, 2009
Google celebrates Samuel Morse
It’s Samuel Morse’s birthday and in tribute Google has replaced its logo with a morse code version.
As a former Navy code jockey, I appreciate the dots and dashes. Thanks, Google!
Annie Louise Wilkerson park
Yesterday morning the kids and set off on a preview of Raleigh’s upcoming Dr. Annie Louise Wilkerson Nature Preserve park. I’d heard about it from my Parks board meeting and wanted to see it for myself, so we all got drinks and snacks, loaded the dog in the car, and headed north.
The park is very much like it was when Dr. Wilkerson bequeathed it to the city. A long, winding driveway leads into the middle of a woodsy expanse of property, with two big meadows at the center. Two homes and a barn stand testament that this was the doctor’s home for over 40 years. Tall grass in the meadows long in need of a cut is the only thing that seems out of place.
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