There’s a new web site called, Walk Score that gives your neighborhood a “walkability index” based on how many shops, restauants and other amenities are within walking distance. Kind of neat. My neighborhood scores 57 out of 100, Somewhat Walkable. There are some questions regarding the quality of the mapping data they are relying...
Read More »

The idea here at re-burbia is to repair the poor use of space by strip-mall and fast-food architecture with infill buildings and repurpose the original building. We were discussing in a meeting last week the fact that Clinton (like many small towns) after encouraging so much non-downtown development along the highway now has much,...
Read More »

Just got back from the KROS studios in Clinton where I was talking about what options are available to CIS subscribers and businesses. No announcement yet from CIS. The curious thing, which I mentioned on the radio, is that CIS has significant assets both physical and virtual and could very easily sell the business...
Read More »

Robert Kramer III performed a great mitzvah for for the world when he ran down and sued into the ground a number of spammers based in the United States. Although it is unlikely that Bob Kramer, owner of CIS Internet Services ever saw even a tenth part of the more than $10 billion (yes,...
Read More »

Busy as all hell. Not abandoning the blog again. Had a very pleasant and restful Sunday. The first in a few weeks. Took a couple hours to go out on the Mississippi with Turbo and take some pictures. Feel free to share. All images are Creative Commons Licensed Attribution, No Derivitives. All photos: This...
Read More »

It was shocking to hear that City Administrator, Gary Boden was tossed out of City Hall two weeks ago. Not suprising, but a bit shocking. I have worked with Mr. Boden on a number of projects since he took that position in early 2007. He could be very abrasive but he was also a...
Read More »

On Wednesday the 20th, I attended the Chamber of Commerce, Biz After 5, at Ashford University’s call center out on the bypass. The food and drink spread was very nice. Before anything else, let me just say that the facility is great, Ashford made a great decision (albeit with some considerable arm-twisting) to locate...
Read More »