Luke Gedeon

How’s it going? No, I am not just saying, “Hello”…. For real, how are things going in your life?
I am so busy right now that I can’t see straight, but life is great and I am blessed far beyond what I deserve. I just ate some very delicious egg-rolls and all is right in the [...]

I gave up on Scoble’s blog about the time he started using FriendFeed cause most of the interesting conversations moved over there and I still have not learned to like FF, but I am still subscribed to his shared items feed in Google Reader.
A few minutes ago Robert Scoble shared a post that bragged on [...]

Okay, so these pictures are a bit dated, but I thought you might enjoy them I enjoyed rediscovering them as I went back through a bunch of old pictures.

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Freedom is the Highest Value of Human Life
Speech in Rhode Island at “Democracy Day at the State House” April 27, 2004
Xu Wenli
Respected Speaker of the House
Ladies, gentlemen
Fellow friends,
I am very honored to speak at the State House today.  I thank you for your calling this event, “Democracy Day at the State House.”
Rhode Island [...]

This is my first attempt at live blogging, so things might look really weird for the next hour.
Bio info here soon
[Note: For the rest of the post "I" refers to Mr. Haass]
It is a pleasure to be here. This is like a fulfillment of a lifelong dream. It is an opportunity to speak at universities [...]

Wow, BatchBlue.com has done a bit of growing up since last time I checked. Adam Darowski was twittering about his site today and so I took a second look. The site is just about perfect for a small business, but the software is not Batch Blue’s competitive advantage.
The strongest feature is their people. I have [...]

Calling all New England bloggers and technology lovers (geeks). I am putting together a directory of anyone, and any company that is involved in technology, and all of the bloggers in the area. Not all blogs are about technology, you know. My wife is a geek, but does not talk tech on her blog. She [...]

China Care Brown, a student organization at Brown University, is holding a benefit dinner to raise money for orphans in China. The dinner will be this Friday at 7pm. Visit their website for details.
Xu Wenli, head of the Caring for China Center, of which I am part, is donating some of his Chinese calligraphy that [...]

Traffic to my site nearly doubled today with people looking for Super Bowl results. Unfortunately my earlier posts were written with the assumption that anyone bothering to read would already know how things turned out.
To make amends here is what happened last night:
The New York Giants beat the New England (near Boston) Patriots, 17 to [...]

As usual the four-year-old wins. For a couple years Peter was the youngest person in the family to pick winners for the Super Bowl, NCAA Basketball, and World Series, and during that time he did really well. He either won or came very close every time. Even after Phillip started Peter held on for a [...]

Caring for China Center has an immediate need for a bookkeeper/accountant in Providence, RI. We need someone who is familiar with the paperwork required of a publicly supported 509(a) not-for-profit corporation 501(c)3.
This will hopefully become a paid position very soon but at this point we are looking for someone willing to volunteer their time for [...]

The Google Maps street-view has come in handy on recent trips to NYC. I like it better than Google Earth for looking for land-marks ahead of time. Both are useful for different things.
The challenge with street-view is that they have to take pictures city-by-city, street-by-street. This slows down the process of getting images online. They [...]

Okay, round three…. funny I did not mean to, but I think I may have saved the best for last.
Adam Darowski works with BatchBlue of Rhode Island. They make a customizable online contact manager for small businesses. I was impressed with his blog, darowski.com. I have barely had time to scratch the surface and already [...]

I met some really interesting folks last night. Here are a few of them in no particular order.
Stephen Warley is founder of BostonKnows, a cool, new, almost released site all about Boston. It is a cross between Digg and del.icio.us with a nicer looking interface. He also pointed me to xconomy a site covering news [...]

I just met quite a few New England bloggers at the Boston Blogger Dinner! We seem to be a bit difficult to find. I am going to do what I can to remedy that. I am up against a fairly significant challenge though. Steven Warley tells me that New Englanders like to keep their private [...]

Is there any geek group in the area? Any meet-ups south of Providence? We have a lot of stuff going on up in Providence and Boston, but I have not seen anything in South County yet. So if you are in North Kingstown, South Kingstown, Exeter, East Greenwich, Narragansett, Westerly, or URI lets talk. I [...]

This is a new production from Enrico Garzilli. Enrico’s works, at least to me, seem to be similar to Andrew Lloyd Webber – only not so dark. I have listened to some of his music and am friends with one of his brothers. I am looking forward to the premier of this new musical. For [...]