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Back in August, Commissioners’ Court approved a plan by the Astrodome Redevelopment folks to secure financing for their much-touted Dome…

While the city-within-a-city of Balcones Heights has adopted red light cameras, its sister city-within-a-city Alamo Heights has demurred. Police Chief…

We love having feeders in the yard to attract the birds. Cynthia has even gone a step further and buys a cheap loaf of bread so that she can put some out when she gets home from work.

We’ve got tons of sparrows, Ricky and Lucy our mated pair of Cardinals, the occasional Mockingbird, plenty of […]

Councilmember Peter Brown recently took a field trip to Dallas to see how they do planning, vision, and density. He believes they are getting more and better dense residential development than Houston. I’m not so sure. Many high-density projects are…

Note: See second update below Whatever you may think of today’s budget bill, keep this in mind: It’s 100% the…

Today the House will take up the Committee Substitute for House Bill 1 (CSHB1), which is the state budget bill….

I keep getting secret notes that U.S. Senator Barack Obama is appearing on Second Life.

First I receive this, then I hear he is appearing on Podshow’s new island this Saturday.

The debate is, are these two events connected?

From SLNN:

The official campaign of U.S. Senator Barack Obama has authorized a simulcast of a nationwide event in Second Life next week. Forefront Media, a “virtual event and promotions” company which operates in SL, will host the event next Saturday, March 31 at 1:00 PM on their island SoHo.

I emailed Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign about this and never heard back. However they did add my email address to their press release list without permission so I assume they received the inquiry.

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Not surprisingly, the two voter ID bills passed out of committee yesterday on a party line vote. It will, I…

If you thought Gmail was good, wait till you hear this. The old kid on the block is getting some new tricks:

Starting in May, Yahoo Mail plans to offer completely unlimited—and free—e-mail storage. Yahoo’s current limit is one gigabyte.

It’s not as convenient as having all those messages on your hard drive, of course. Or is it?

You can send yourself all the photos and video clips you’d ever want without having to concern yourself with clogging up your hard drive or burning CDs—and you can access any of that content from anywhere you can get an Internet connection.

What’s behind all this data generosity? Simple: Yahoo’s unprecedented deal is designed to win more eyeballs for the advertising that sponsors its mail system.

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(Thanks Murdock)