by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog
Green Mountain Power, the main utility in Vermont, plans to take an entire state park off the grid and power it with solar panels and Tesla batteries. They aren’t doing it because it cool and Vermont-y, although it is. They’re doing it because the power...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog
True video game geeks know Ralph Baer, who led development of what became Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game, while working at Sanders Associates (now BAE Systems) in Nashua. I wrote several stories about him while working at the Nashua Telegraph, which is...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog
NHPR has an interesting piece today (read or listen to it here) about efforts by the New England Wildflower Society to collect seeds from local plants, in case they become endangered because, say, a huge storm destroys the coastal area where they thrive. the key, says...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog
The Valley News reports (here) that the Kilton Public Library in West Lebanon, NH, has turned back on its Tor server, which was shut after police raised questions. It sounds like it was a polite, intelligent discussion – a rarity these days: The U.S. Department...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog
I created a standing desk at the Nashua Telegraph by nailing together three boards into a keyboard support that I could put under my desk when I wanted to sit down (ergonomic variety is key). The keyboard and monitor weren’t really at the right heights, but it...
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