July 15, 2009

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Seeing the Light: touring Wilson’s municipal Internet system

Greenlight_LobbyI was invited today to tour the City of Wilson’s Greenlight municipal Internet system, so I took the day off and jumped at the chance. I’d helped win the latest battle against the anti-municipal broadband bill and the folks at the City of Wilson wanted to offer a tour to show their appreciation.

I arrived a little after 10 and met Brian Bowman, Public Affairs Manager with the city. He took me around the office and introduced me to other staffers (as a “famous blogger”…ha!) before giving me a ride out to the Greenlight offices in the city’s maintenance services building.
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Big day for a day off

I had a big day today for it being a day off. I started the day with a trip to Wilson to take a tour of the city’s municipal Internet system. After lunch in Wilson, I headed back to Raleigh to meet a friend for coffee and a discussion of local politics. Then I headed home to have dinner with the family before I left again for the Raleigh CAC meeting.

That’s a pretty busy day off, if I do say so myself!

Tour de France

I’ve been enjoying the Internet coverage of the Tour de France, though the local media never covers it enough, in my opinion.

Yesterday’s stage 10 was an agonizingly slow ride, as riders apparently protested a decision by tour organizers to ban radio contact with the riders’ team managers. It was dull-city for the most part except for a few diversions, such as when a bored cameraman showed a group of snails crawling towards the path of the peloton.

A viewer texted to the BBC live text coverage, asking “any snails spotted yet?”

The BBC commentator didn’t miss a beat:

No sign of any snails yet, but I’m sure it won’t be long before they make their move. With a little more luck one of them could have won yesterday’s stage…

How true!