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Our Cyberplace – Another Twilight Moment

Once again, around 6:00 a.m., another twilight moment occurred before I was fully awake. It centered on our community and how knowledgeable its citizens are about all the "good deed" activities, events, and projects that take place throughout the year that enhance and improve the quality of life in "Our [...]

By | July 31st, 2014|0 Comments

Our River Town Continues to Celebrate Its Place in Cyberspace

Can you believe it? Today, March 11, 2014 is the 8th anniversary of Our River Town blog on what is now known as the Argus-Courier's Petaluma360. To date, this volunteer blogger has posted 540 blogs, organized in 14 various categories. ((Look for these categories in the column to the right.) [...]

By | March 11th, 2014|0 Comments

The WWW Celebrates it’s 20th Anniversary

Petaluma's first community-wide web site was called PEN (Petaluma Electronic Network), and designed 17 years ago by a high school student, Eric Silverberg (August 28, 1996.) This new information and communication application was made possible with the invention of the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, about [...]

By | May 16th, 2013|0 Comments

The “Spirit” of PetalumaNet is Still Alive

How many readers remember that two of the very first categories of this Petaluma360 blog site in March 2006 were titled, Our Cyberplace and Our Information Highway. They reported what was happening with the pilot projects sponsored by PetalumaNet, founded in 1995. Over the ten year period, 1995-2005, PN expanded [...]

By | October 15th, 2011|0 Comments

Don’t waste your time reading this blog …

Unless you are interested in "rolling the dice" and seeing whether the numbers that come up make you a winner. Now that I have your attention, here are the latest "crazy" thoughts I had earlier this morning around 3:30 a.m. (Stop now, if you wish; my feelings won't be hurt.) [...]

By | June 8th, 2011|1 Comment

My … How time flies in the ICT World

 It's 2011 and you know whose garage hasn't been cleaned out, yet, after all these years. We won't mention any names, but long-time readers know about this local "disaster." (They have even seen photos.) Why are we starting out the New Year with such bad news? Wait! It ends up [...]

By | January 5th, 2011|0 Comments

One box at a time

Unlike the the response made by “Dagwood Bumstead” and quoted in the comment section of Bill's Blog #81 - “All the Things We Collect” (bottom of the blog for 6-10-10), The Trio made a decision not to watch the History Channel as Dagwood did, until the “Clean Up the Garage” [...]

By | June 12th, 2010|0 Comments

Another Anniversary to Celebrate

Last month, I posted my 40th “Then & Now” blog using next year’s Centennial Celebration of Fred J. Wiseman’a first airmail flight on February 17-18, 1911, as the subject matter. When I woke up this morning, it dawned on me that tomorrow, March 11, will be the fourth anniversary of [...]

By | March 10th, 2010|0 Comments

“Will We Get Google Internet?”

My favorite “river town” was destined to become the hub for Telecom Valley when Don Green, founder of Digital Telephone Systems (1969) conceived of Optilink and moved to Petaluma in 1987, after leaving DTS. He then went on to manage DCS (1990) and Alcatel (1998), before establishing Advanced Fibre Communications [...]

By | March 3rd, 2010|3 Comments

Revisiting Our Information Highway – 1995-96 Accomplishments

Our PetalumaNet Scrapbook contains the following list of accomplishments for the 1995-96 academic year as the result of various activities and events: * Two Computer Tech Fairs for 60 Teachers were held at Grant & Penngrove Schools * School site workshops for 35 teachers at McDowell & Dunham Elementary Schools [...]

By | January 8th, 2010|0 Comments