Jul 29 2008

Hailofaday.com UPDATE: Reply to others’ comments

Tag: Web — Kevin Hail @ 5:11 pm

There has been a tremendous public outcry for the ability to reply to other users’ comments on this site (1 or 2 people said something).  So I was able to add this feature.  Here’s how it works:  If you see a comment from another user that gets your goat, or you think you can outwit them, click the Reply button in the Grey Box of their comment and reply away. 

Now, you will be able to engage other users in comments in a thread format.  This is the first step for our community towards a real forum which will be here before you know it.  Of course, you can still create your own new comment thread on each post by just typing in the big white “Leave a Reply” box at the bottom.  if you have any questions, send me an email at kevin@hailofaday.com.

Let the witty banter begin!



Jul 29 2008

NYPY Officer tackles bike rider in Times Square

Tag: Marketing, Videos — Kevin Hail @ 3:47 pm

A New York City police officer was stripped of his gun and badge after a video posted on YouTube showed him body-checking a bicyclist during Friday’s Critical Mass bicycle ride.

The video (see below), which was shot by a tourist and posted on the video-sharing site Sunday, shows bicyclists whizzing past uniformed officers during the Times Square protest. One officer begins to stride across the street, picking up speed and violently tackling a bicyclist into a crowded sidewalk.

The video sparked an immediate public outcry and led the department to place the officer, identified by several news agencies as Patrick Pogan, 22, on desk duty pending the outcome of an internal investigation.

The bicyclist, Christopher Long, 29, was charged with blocking traffic, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and assault, prosecutors said.

Critical Mass is a leaderless mass bicycle ride typically held on the last Friday of each month in cities around the world. The event, which originated in San Francisco in 1992, is alternately referred to as a celebration and a protest against automobile-choked streets.

Jul 29 2008

Wind Power Superhighway for West Texas

Tag: Business — Kevin Hail @ 2:18 pm

If you live in Texas you might find this interesting…

Wind Power Superhighway for West Texas
Written by Jaymi Heimbuch
Monday, 28 July 2008

Texas likes to do everything big, including wind farms and investing in clean energy. The states has been given the thumbs up for a $4.9 billion plan to set up transmission lines to carry the wind power generated in West Texas to surrounding urban areas.

The plan will account for enough lines to carry 18,000 MW – a serious amount of electricity. The state currently generates 5,000 MW, so these lines will leave plenty of room for growth, which T Boone Pickens will help to fill with this own wind plan.

The plan’s funding is coming (in part) from the people who will benefit from the electricity – citizens will pay and extra $3 to $4 each month on their electricity bills for he next few years, which is a pretty small price to pay for getting clean energy delivered to your home. The rest of the funding will come from other investors. Oncor, for example, filed with the Public Utility Commission to show it has its wallet on the table to help with a big chunk of the project. The lines would be up and running somewhere in the next 3 to 5 years, and after that, users would likely see some savings in their energy bills.

Since electricity costs are high, partly because of clogged transmission lines, the project really is practical, and will help out with energy costs as well as reducing pollution. Yet, the one person on the Texas Public Utilities Commission voting against the project, Julie Caruthers Parsley, said she worries this will delay other projects like the building of nuclear power plants. There’s always at least one…

Let’s just hope this project does exactly that. Should this plan come to fruition, Texas will without a doubt be the biggest contributor to wind energy, creating and distributing more than the next 14 states combined. The plan would also be the biggest investment in clean energy in US history. Everything’s bigger in Texas. With luck, more near-future investments in clean energy may soon overshadow even this project. With an investment like this comes more jobs, more trial-and-error knowledge, and much more public awareness for the need and potential of clean energy investments.
Wind Power Superhighway for West Texas | EcoGeek