Norman Rockwell is pretty literal -- he's from right around there.
My boyfriend's sister and niece are both schoolteachers in Connecticut and we spent a few anxious moments that Friday morning trying to figure out *which* town in Connecticut was getting its schools shot up.
It will be interesting, she said, dragging this back to IT, to see what sort of effect this has on things like homeschooling and other ways to teach kids that don't concentrate them into such a big vulnerable population.
Great thoughts, Todd. And, Jennifer, I can tell you it is the same. I do not live there but my niece and her young family do. In fact, their home is 2 miles from Sandy Hook.
What I am observing is that the townspeople are there for one another. They are supporting each other with love and comfort as a town. I think Newtown is showing us the dignity and caring that represents the best of America. The evil represented by this horrendous act can happen anywhere. The people are blessed with a special community.
I hope they can resume their quality of life and be restored. My prayers are with them.
Turning on the television to news coverage of something this atrocious.. it's truly heartbreaking. They were all just babies who still had so much to see and experience in this world.
It's a sad, sad day for humanity. It's also unfortunate that Newtown has become a media circus with reporters contacting families of the victims (even on Twitter!) for interviews.
This is such a tragedy. I grew up in Newtown. Everything you are hearing about the closeness of the people, the Norman Rockwell quality of its structures, the inherent goodness of it -- is true. Because of my wonderful memories, I moved my own family to a nearby town, to give them a similar experience. I was fortunate to grow up in Newtown. Yesterday, social media was lit up, and was full of comments from people like me: People who grew up in this wonderful place, who have a pit in their stomachs, aching for the babies and adults murdered by a madman. I am heartbroken, and can only imagine the intense grief and disbelief of the families impacted by this horror. The town and its people are strong, and they will recover, but they will be scarred.
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Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
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