Archive for August, 2003

Press have arrived

The press just showed up on the risers; I just spent 10 minutes talking with Mark Silva at the Orlando Sentinel who’s been traveling with the tour since Virginia.

More on his observations shortly. The crowd is growing!

Webcast will start around 11:50am central

You can watch it here.

Crowd just started letting in

The music is playing, and the crowd just started showing up. It looks like the predicted thunderstorm will hold off for a while (we may be sleepless, but we prefer to stay dry!) and there’s a nice breeze keeping us cool.

Someone had a great idea and has been handing out “Dean Rags” – just strips […]

Live from the Sleepless Summer Tour!

Greetings from the Terrace Rooftop at Navy Pier in Chicago! Thanks to the guys at SoapBox I’ve got wifi access and can blog the whole event!

I should also thank Mathew Gross and Nicco Mele of the Dean web team, who were generous enough to hook me up with a press pass so I could cover […]

Fundraising goals for Q3

USATODAY.com – Now a player, Dean raises campaign goals

For the three months ending Sept. 30, Dean is setting his sights on $10.3 million — the amount Bill Clinton raised in the same period of 1995, when he was president. That was the best performance by any Democratic presidential candidate in a single quarter the year […]

Hey Ernie!

Check this out:

OmniOutliner Export to iPod 1.0 | iPoding | What’s that in your pocket?

View your OmniOutliner documents on your iPod! Download this disk image file for two different scripts to either export outlines so that they show up in the iPod’s Contacts menu, or in the Notes menu for newer iPods.

I’m not a Mac […]

The Techie prez

I guess this doesn’t come as any surprise:

CNN.com: Bush says he’s ‘not a gadget guy’

But I really would’ve loved it if they’d included this set of photos:

2002: My security profiling suggestion

When the TSA announced they would stop asking those asinine questions at airport check-in, I had a follow-up suggestion to the TSA which has oddly enough not been implemented:

People sitting next to me tend to be a bit odd. Whether they’re a threat to the plane, they’re certainly a threat to me getting anything productive […]

Howard Dean’s Sleepless Summer Rally

If you haven’t been following the Howard Dean phenomenon recently, this week is a good time to check in. There were the simultaneous covers of Time and Newsweek a few weeks ago; the coverage in the same week on Larry King Live, The Today Show, and the continued strength in fundraising (the campaign is well […]

Flash volunteers needed

Do you know how to create Shockwave Flash animations? Do you have an artistic flair? I’m not at liberty to reveal too much about what we’re working on, but we have a fun project in mind that has the potential to be a very high profile deal.

If you want to contribute some time to the […]