Are Your Kids Active Online?

If so, here is a nice short post by Seth Godin that makes for some excellent family dinner table reading and conversation. Kids (and some parents) really need to wrap their heads around the consequences of a permanent digital record...

Getting Personal with 42 Billion Dollars (or lack thereof...)

Thought this was really cool. A buddy (thanks Chris) sent me a link to this little calculator published by the Sacramento Bee. It shows the estimated personal impact of the proposed California budget package. (Those are the default values in there on the right - pop in your own to see your personal story).

OK, the results of the calculation are not cool, but the idea of making the impact of obscure legislation available to the general public in real time in an interactive/personal fashion is a great use of the Internet.

Man, I knew we shouldn't have had all thosee kids - ouch!

Ode to Troublemakers

As part of an extended family project, I have been helping my Uncle Bob, a (semi) retired reverend, put his sermons on-line. In honor of Martin Luther King day and the inauguration tomorrow, he wrote and delivered one this weekend entitled "Ode to Troublemakers". Wonderful food for thought - check it out.

If you are like me (or not!), I suspect you will enjoy reading his other pieces as well. He has a delightful, casual, witty style - not your usual intimidating sermons. His messages are very accessible and relevant even to folks like me who are not, err, ummm, shall we say "regular" church goers...