Danbury Whalers

by Adam J. Schmidt on December 30, 2009

The Danbury News Times has all the details and the Federal Hockey League has the press release.  Now it’s just a matter of waiting for DanburyWhalers.com to go live so I can get my $300 season tickets ordered before the Jan 31, 2010 deadline for the $50 discount.  If the team’s real world openness is any indication (the CEO publicized his cell number for fans) they’ll have an innovative and engaging online presence as well.
Looking forward to it.
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Abandoning the iPhone

by Adam J. Schmidt on November 9, 2009

That about sums it up for me.

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Hopeful for game two

by Adam J. Schmidt on October 29, 2009

Heading to Yankee Stadium tonight for game two of the world series – here’s hoping things go better for the Yankees than they did last night.

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New ‘Vintage’ Hartford Whalers Apparel

by Adam J. Schmidt on October 20, 2009

Great news for Hartford Whalers fans!  According to Greg Wyshynski at Yahoo Sports, the recent expiration of the ‘Hartford Whalers’ trademark has paved the way for the NHL to allow the creation of new Whalers apparel as part of their ‘Vintage Hockey Program.’

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Caption Contest

by Adam J. Schmidt on October 8, 2009

And so I said, Irish housing boom?!

And so I said, "Housing boom?! What Irish housing boom?!"

Leave a comment with a possible caption for this touching moment captured between Vice President Joe Biden and embattled Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd during a recent trip to the nutmeg state.

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Remember

by Adam J. Schmidt on September 11, 2009

Rember 9/11

www.national911memorial.org

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Gmail FAIL (but with an improved response)

by Adam J. Schmidt on September 1, 2009

Gmail

Gmail is now a trending topic on Twitter as news of today’s outage spreads.  For a company that aims to “organize the world’s information” I’ve been surprised at their lack of transparency in situations like this in the past.  While I realize they’ve kept Gmail in perpetual ‘beta’ the reality is that people have come to rely on the tools Google provides on a daily basis.

I believe that users can accept delays or outages, but only if they’re respected enough to be kept informed.  That’s why I was glad to see their recent Twitter update announcing the outage with a link to additional information.  Hopefully, this openness is a trend that will continue.

UPDATE: Google has posted a detailed explanation of yesterday’s Gmail outage.

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Get Down

by Adam J. Schmidt on August 18, 2009

Easily my favorite online fund raising appeal of the 2008 cycle was this video promoting an event with Rep. Bob Inglis  of South Carolina.

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Lieberman on a Public Option

by Adam J. Schmidt on July 1, 2009

Senator Lieberman sounds skeptical that a ‘public option’ for health care is the right approach.

With Al Franken declared the winner in Minnesota the Democrats may claim 60 seats in the Senate, but with disagreements like this its going to be difficult for them to effectively exercise the control of a supermajority.

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Jujitsu

by Adam J. Schmidt on June 19, 2009

The RNC is out with a new video exploring one aspect of the heath care debate that Democrats haven’t been too keen on discussing in much detail; how they’re going to pay for it all.  The short answer is “revenue raisers” easily one of my favorite political euphemisms.

In something of a jujitsu move it’s good to see the RNC harnessing Ed Schultz to make their point; particularly after his mean spirited and quite frankly shocking appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe earlier this week where he accused former Vice President Cheney of wanting Americans to die in a terrorist attack in order for conservatives to gain some sort of political advantage.

This is probably the first time I’ve actually seen someone “question the patriotism” of a political opponnent, and  I can only conlcude that Ed Schultz is either deeply disturbed or in the business of creating controversy to garner attention for his televsion show.  I’m just not sure which is worse.

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