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...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2015 | Blog
A publication called EnergyPost has an interesting interview with the CEO of National Grid, which provides electricity and natural gas in parts of New Hampshire (as well as throughout the Northeast, and in the United Kingdom). He says that using large power plants for...
by David Brooks | Sep 14, 2015 | Blog
The boring business of generating and transmitting electricity isn’t very boring any more, as technology (distributed solar and digital communication) is, in that fave phrase of the techno-biz folks, being disrupted. New Hampshire is looking for suggestions...
by David Brooks | Sep 14, 2015 | Blog
The Facebook group Free State Bitcoin Consortium has a post today from somebody named Bill McGonigle that shows the Bruins logo accompanied by the comment “anybody else have a wrong first guess? (seen on a t-shirt yesterday)”. It took me a minute to figure...
by David Brooks | Sep 11, 2015 | Blog
The Secretary of the Interior is in New Hampshire today, partly to announce that the New England cottontail won’t be put on the endangered-species list because restoration efforts here and in other parts of New England have stemmed its population decline. The...
by David Brooks | Sep 10, 2015 | Blog
UPDATE: I have more details in today’s story. In July the Kilton Library in West Lebanon, NH, became part of Tor, the anonymous network – indicative of how librarians have long been advocates for personal privacy. It was the first public library in the...