"The State Unveils a Cancer Map" - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

Let's see one of these for Chapelboroham, too!

"A ‘Solar Map’ of New York City" - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

Do we have a solar map of Chapelboroham?

Wi-Fi use?

I noted the other day that the Town was promoting the free Wi-Fi service in various places downtown. I think I saw this on the Town's cable channel.
What statistics are available to show actual use of that capability?

"UNC-Chapel Hill Continuing Education: What's the Big Idea?"

I was planning to attend a couple of these programs, as they looked really interesting. Alas, that will not be possible as the entire program has been canceled due to lack of participation (which I learned from the Friday Center staff person responsible for this program).
Something is wrong with this picture, I think, given the importance of this subject to all of us in North Carolina. Why would this slip so far down the priority lists of so many potential participants?

"Education - Uruguay's Plan Ceibal: What Happens When *all* Students and Teachers Have Their Own Laptops"

What's the gap between the number of students in Chapelboroham and the number who have ample access to an internet-connected computer?

The Nature Conservancy in North Carolina - North Carolina Home Page

Some comments that I passed on to the Nature Conservancy this week about their website:

"For what it’s worth, I took a look at your website again just now. Here’s a suggestion --- I think it would benefit immensely from a short item of 3-500 words on the first page for the NC chapter that sums up who you are, what you do, and why it’s important. 300 words would be better than 500, but what the site lacks for me as a visitor is a first stop that pulls together the various pieces scattered about from the menu choices on the left. Without overdoing the suggestion, I’d also make sure that someone there was in charge of those words and that they include text that could be updated with new developments so that the piece does not look like something someone wrote years ago and then forgot about it."

Sidewalks

When I went to the Carrboro Farmers' Market on Saturday, I parked on the opposite side of the firehouse and walked back to the Market. A sidewalk is being built along the street more or less on the western side of the firehouse.

Normally, I would say just bravo!

But look at it, and ask yourself who came first and who should have priority - people or cars? I defy anyone to predict that people will actually walk this serpentine route.

Imagine if the sidewalk were put in place first, and the cars and parking had to work their way around it! That's where I think the priority ought to be!