"How's your blog doing?"
. . . a friend of mine asked me that question recently and I winced when I heard it. The truth is that I've been really busy with a whole host of things in the last couple months that have kept me from focusing much energy on the site . . . and yet, I can't help but feel that there's been alot of changes recently that will make an official launch of the site much more likely in the very near future . . . the very near distant future (to be on the safe side) . . .
I have moved to California (the whole state) and am currently attending TCS 21. It's only the end of Day One, and already I've met a great group of folks and sat in on some pretty interesting sessions. Dr. Geraldine Knatz kicked off the conference with a really great talk about some of the innovative approaches that the Port of Los Angeles is taking to make their operations (and the whole of the LA basin) a bit greener. . . no, make that a whole lot greener. Some of their projects seemed pretty darn innovative, and certainly readjusted my understanding of just how "green" ports could be.
With that as a kick off, it was easy to be in a hopeful mood heading into the rest of the day. Due to the fact that I have to be back in the fray in another eight hours I'm not going to get into the rest of Day One right now. But I'll definitely be posting more about the conference in the next couple of days . . .
. . . In contrast to last year, my name badge now reads Coastopolis.com at the bottom of it and quite a few folks have mentioned that the idea seems like a good one. I'm still looking for a good tag line to describe the whole thing but if you're reading this I might have explained the concept to you already. Anyway, what I wanted to say, to anybody that I've discussed the idea with (or for anybody that I speak to in the near future), is that your ideas and/or encouragement are invaluable. The more I hear that it seems like a good idea, and the more ideas that I receive for its growth, the more likely that the product in the future will become a useful resource for varied sectors of the coastal equation . . . hmm, I like that. That's mine. I just googled it and didn't find anything pertinent so I'm officially coining the phrase and there's my tagline . . . Coastopolis.com - providing an online portal for varied sectors of the coastal equation.
. . . or something to the effect. See you at Day Two.
I have moved to California (the whole state) and am currently attending TCS 21. It's only the end of Day One, and already I've met a great group of folks and sat in on some pretty interesting sessions. Dr. Geraldine Knatz kicked off the conference with a really great talk about some of the innovative approaches that the Port of Los Angeles is taking to make their operations (and the whole of the LA basin) a bit greener. . . no, make that a whole lot greener. Some of their projects seemed pretty darn innovative, and certainly readjusted my understanding of just how "green" ports could be.
With that as a kick off, it was easy to be in a hopeful mood heading into the rest of the day. Due to the fact that I have to be back in the fray in another eight hours I'm not going to get into the rest of Day One right now. But I'll definitely be posting more about the conference in the next couple of days . . .
. . . In contrast to last year, my name badge now reads Coastopolis.com at the bottom of it and quite a few folks have mentioned that the idea seems like a good one. I'm still looking for a good tag line to describe the whole thing but if you're reading this I might have explained the concept to you already. Anyway, what I wanted to say, to anybody that I've discussed the idea with (or for anybody that I speak to in the near future), is that your ideas and/or encouragement are invaluable. The more I hear that it seems like a good idea, and the more ideas that I receive for its growth, the more likely that the product in the future will become a useful resource for varied sectors of the coastal equation . . . hmm, I like that. That's mine. I just googled it and didn't find anything pertinent so I'm officially coining the phrase and there's my tagline . . . Coastopolis.com - providing an online portal for varied sectors of the coastal equation.
. . . or something to the effect. See you at Day Two.
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