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This project seeks to use drones to plant 1bn trees. Reforestation is an important part of climate mitigation and reforestation projects are behind many carbon offset programs. So technology like this could make all of that a lot more efficient. Read more

As I prepare to write my annual year end posts (what happened and what will happen), I have been reading similar posts by others. This part one of two posts by Alex Danco is good. I am waiting for the [...]  Read more

I really like Stevie Wonder’s song from the late 60s written by Anna Gordy Gaye, George “Horgay” Gordy and Allen Story. The song lays out what Christmas means; candles burning low, mistletoe, snow and ice, carols right outside my door. [...]  Read more

Our dog Ollie is eleven today. Here is a photo of him on the beach with a tennis ball, pretty much his favorite place to be and thing to do. Read more

As is my tradition, I made a playlist of songs that stayed with me in 2019. This year, I focused on songs that mostly flew below the radar and aren’t likely to be heard on everyone else’s top tracks playlists. [...]  Read more

My brother in law Jerry is working on a project to collect all of his family’s digital subscriptions; subscriptions to streaming video services, music services, subscriptions to online news and other publications, subscriptions to software services, subscriptions to education services, [...]  Read more

USV’s portfolio company Recount Media produces excellent short (5 mins or less) videos about political news and related topics. They also produce the Shift series of events . In November, Recount did a Shift event about Antitrust policy and my [...]  Read more

You all know that I have a huge soft spot for anything that helps kids learn to program computers and other things and this project does exactly that. I backed it today and am sharing it with all of you. Read more

Yesterday, Apple, Google, and Amazon annonuced that they are teaming up with Zigbee and creating a working group called Project Connected Home Over IP . The Verge has a good post on what is going on here and why . [...]  Read more