One of my dear friends has a brave brother who works in rescue other emergency situations. He was at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan on 9/11 and took some of the best photos I have seen while working hard. He was more recently involve in the salvage of the wreckage left in the Hudson River when US Airways Flight 1549 landed on the river on January 15th, 2009. With his permission, I am sharing some of the photos David Daoust took during the operation.

After banging my head against my desk to try to come up with a replacement for Hydra Project (its too slow and two non-intuitive for non-tech folks) I finally gave up on the idea of creating a single solution to handle both task management and document/link management.

I, like many people in the United States, had to work yesterday during the swearing in of Barak Obama. Despite permission from on high, or at least from the head of Human Resources, employees were given permission to use their work PC’s to tune in and watch the event, it just didn’t happen. I ended up listening instead of watching.

This is a nice effort on the part of folks at Microsoft and Novell. They managed to roll out a Silverlight/Moonlight player for Linux and PowerPC Macs. The official streaming feed of Barak Obama’s Presidential Inauguration Committee will be using Silverlight 2.

The MLB video system will be working tomorrow, January 20th, to stream a morning long program of footage from prior inaugurations beginning Tuesday morning at 9:00am EST. I love seeing expensive infrastructure put to good use.