As I sat in the Bloomington Bagel Company Tuesday morning waiting for people to earn their $5 gift certificates by participating in a painless user study, I received a tweet from Ben Fulton:
Local paper is liveblogging the Monroe County Budget meeting. Pretty cool, too bad you have to be a subscriber though.
In that little splash from my personal information stream, I saw a glimpse of the future. Among other things, it involves more Twitter.
I still can’t gather my thoughts- searching for something deep and meaningful to capture last week- so I guess I’ll rely on pictures to do the job for me, at least temporarily. Last week we got to introduce our kids to each other- either for the first time, or getting reacquainted.

“Hey dude, when did you get so fat and happy?”
Since AltSearchEngines announced their essay contest last week, I had spent some time thinking about what it would take to raise the next 100 search engines on the market collectively into fourth place in a market dominated by Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Two percent of market translates into about $2 billion, so that would be no small feat. My entry did get a mention, but the designerly images didn’t make the cut. So, I’ve reproduced them here.