Not much to say.  Day three since sending off e-mails to local gov’ts with no response.

Well it’s been a little more than 24 hours since I dropped an e-mail off to the City of Erie via their website, Erie Regional Chamber, and e-mails to every Millcreek Supervisor.

Local Gov’t: 0

Erie Regional Chamber: 1

Kudos to the Erie Regional Chamber who responded within minutes and informed me that they’ve done their part and submitted a response as an organization/group..!  This is great!

Boo and hiss’s to both the City of Erie and Millcreek, haven’t heard a word from either of them.

We aren’t doing enough obviously….

I’ve written to the Mayor’s Office and Millcreek Township supervisors to see if any action has been taken at the local government level to submit an application.  We’ll see how long it might take to get a response (if any).

If you haven’t done your part yet please fill out the residents portion available here.

Update 1: Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership is on the ball!  Matt over there wrote back to me quickly and informed me that they went ahead and filed their request as an organization!

We’re still not sure on local governments… I’ll update this post if I hear more.

Update 2: I’ve gone ahead and created a Facebook group to try and capture some momentum up and gauge if we can get more than a few dozen members to show some support!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=336279869369&ref=nf

You can show your support by placing this code somewhere on your own website:

<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=336279869369&ref=nf”><img src=”http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object2/1361/55/n336279869369_581.jpg” /></a>

It will make one of these:

Much like JohnR whose blog I’ve linked to I had no idea that Sharepoint had such kickass integration into Visio for their built in Task list.

With literally 3 clicks you get beautifully visualized information about your workflows and tasks assigned.  How did I not notice this earlier?!

IIS6 doens’t know what to do with Office 2007 documents until you inform it of the proper MIME types… that’s fine, understandable.

It gets interesting though if you fat finger your copy and pastes and tell it that docx == powerpoint!

Given that under the hood all these files are XML it will go ahead and start rendering all your hosted .docx files as PowerPoint presentations, slides and all.  Pretty wild!

Took about two seconds for me to realize what had happened once I got my first call from a user!

This looks like it could be fun.  Especially the used tackle…!  I also have had a desire to learn more about S.O.N.S., looks like $5 for a year membership.

I’m always a sucker for cheap lures… you should see me at wal-mart when the stuff hits the clearance isle, I’m like gollum as I seek the good stuff in the racks… “my precious…powerbait…”

From: http://www.epsfa.com/events.php

Too Cold To Go Fishing????

Join Us for E.P.S.F.A. 2010 Tackle Swap & Meet

Hosted by The Erie Pennsylvania Sport Fishing Association

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Lincoln School
831 East 31st Street, Erie, PA 16504

The following activities and vendors will be available from 11:00am til close:

• Used tackle tables
• New tackle tables
• Tackle Shops
• Manufacturer Reps

• Kids dart throwing contest
• Kids casting contest
• Arts & Crafts 101
• Food & Beverages

• S.O.N.S membership table
• 3-C-U membership table
• EPSFA membership and tournament table
• and more…

Google wants to get into the broadband game, offering “high speed fiber” (1-gigabit per second!) at competitive prices.

Erie should get on this, talk about high tech!  A joint venture with google would be fantaboulous!

Use the link above to nominate Erie (done!) and maybe some other bigger blogs will see this post and also work to spread the word!

If you look at this article and it’s comments you’ll see that St. Louis residents started a facebook group to start some support, not a bad idea, what else can we do to raise Erie awareness?

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2010/02/google_fiber_for_communities.php

Anyone else have intermittent problems with YourErie.com?

This is a mindblowing tool out of MIT for “visual scripting”.

You can mash code with “screenshots” of buttons, text areas, etc. where you want the actions to happen.  It’s written in Jython (like Python but java-ier) so it understands anything you could throw at Python too.  I don’t know any Python but could still figure this thing out.

Mainly something developers will appreciate but what a fantastic idea.  This might not be practical for everyone and every task but I’m already considering abusing it for some unit testing of our applications against Windows 7 at work.

Watch this video to really get an idea of what it’s doing, hopefully you can survive the somewhat annoying voice on the video:

Whoa.  Pretty damn exciting!