Events

The Wednesday schedule for this work conference is always the fullest, so I don't have a lot of time to post. One of the teams I manage started the day at Nashville's best breakfast spot, Biscuit Love, which means I don't have to eat again until April. And since we met in the hotel lobby just 15 minutes after sunrise, I got to wake up to this: Again, kudos to the conference organization staff and the hotel for giving me exactly the room that I wanted. Meanwhile, Cassie seems to be doing all right: I am...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who you should remember as a Fox News presenter with no knowledge of the military, added Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat on the only-kind-of-secure messaging app Signal: On Tuesday, March 11, I received a connection request on Signal from a user identified as Michael Waltz. Signal is an open-source encrypted messaging service popular with journalists and others who seek more privacy than other text-messaging services are capable of delivering. I...

Having the morning free, and having a lot of cool air and sun, I took a quick stroll around Nashville. I'll have more later, but for now, here's the Tennessee State Capitol, apparently under construction: Of course, since the Tennessee General Assembly has a well-Gerrymandered 75-24 Republican majority, I would expect they're actually deconstructing the Capitol. But whatever. I also passed by Riverfront Station, the downtown terminus of Nashville's adorable little 6-times-a-day toy commuter train: It...

Kudos to our conference team and the hotel for getting me exactly the room I hoped for, a high floor with an east view: I've got some free time this morning, so after I finish reading the news (argh!) I'm going to take a walk. Updates as conditions warrant.

Business travel on Sunday evening brings some good, some not so good. For starters, I got from the curb through security to the terminal in 12 minutes, because there aren't a lot of business travelers. On the other hand, getting to the G Concourse lounge involved a lot of near-collisions as the leisure travelers shuffled around without looking where they were going. I'm impressed with what they've done to the lounge, though. I haven't been in G Concourse since August 2016, so I was pleasantly surprised....

I've added a bunch of small but useful features to Weather Now: Users can now set their preferred measurement system (metric, Imperial, default) and time/date formats. On Nearby Weather and Nearby Places, users can double-click the map to re-center and load new info. Moved the Weather Score column on lists to increase usability. Tweaked the Weather Score formula. Several other bug fixes and feature tweaks. So if you set up a profile, which you can do simply by logging in with any Microsoft ID, you can...

Workers have started demolishing three historic buildings along Sheffield Ave just north of Addison, including Cubs Rooftops building at 3631, the location of the annual reminder of the Chicago Cubs' dismal record: One of the most iconic buildings in Wrigleyville is being torn down just weeks before Opening Day. Demolition is underway at 3631 N. Sheffield Ave., one of three historic Wrigley Field rooftop buildings slated to be torn down and replaced with a 29-unit apartment building. A contractor at the...

Leading the hit parade of horrors this morning, London's Heathrow Airport completely shut down after an electric transformer caught fire yesterday, leading to over 1,100 flight cancellations so far. Flight operations have resumed, sort of, but Europe's busiest airport going offline will cause rippling failures throughout world aviation for a few more days at least. Speaking of massive transport failures, we have yet more evidence that the Clown Prince of X knows dick about cars (or rockets or software...

As predicted, none of yesterday's snow stuck around. Here's (a new edit of) yesterday's photo: And the same spot just over 24 hours later: In fact, the temperature at Inner Drive Technology WHQ has remained above freezing since just before 9am Monday, though it did scrape along at 0.1°C for a couple of hours last night. Today's forecast predicts a high of 14°C, and this weekend's Garmin challenge predicts Cassie will get a 5 kilometer walk this afternoon.

Before getting to the weather, I don't anticipate any quiet news days for the next couple of years, do you? Someone who owns at least 16 rooms and condos in the OAFPOTUS's Wabash Ave. building in downtown Chicago has sued, alleging that—wait for it—the organization running the building is bilking investors. I mean, how preposterous! Speaking of corruption flowing from the OAFPOTUS like toxic waste from a Union Carbide plant, Molly White mourns the end of SEC oversight of the crypto industry. Former US...