http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVKo-vqaeuo

MassCann/NORML Benefit event on Sat. April 19th, 2008.

Be there with us as we countdown to 420!

With Robby Roadsteamer, The AndWutz, Graveyard BBQ, Prospect Hill, Hektik and Aztech.

We'll also be celebrating my birthday and Tony and Former Jenn Spanks 420 Wedding Anniversary.

Robby Roadsteamer is on WBCN 104.1 FM (the #1 rock station in Boston) on Wed. and Friday Nights. He recently appeared on a telecast of the Boston Red Sox with Jerry Remy as well as the NESN dating show, Sox Appeal and VH-1's Best Week Ever.

Play "Fuzzwords" at http://masscrosswords.com

I attended last night's Board of Selectmen meeting and blog here at http://westwoodblog.org/node/37 about the creation of a committee to promote energy efficiency in the town and to move forward with consideration of the Community Preservation Act adoption at May town meeting...

OK, so there's a new Boston.com. To me it looks flatter and more crowded, and it's harder to find stuff (though that will probably go away as I get used to it). Here's part of what they say:

The result will be a new Boston.com that is easier, fresher, and more useful than ever before. Among the changes that you will notice beginning today on the home page, article pages, and soon throughout the site:
* Our pages are wider, less cluttered, and designed with more breathing room.
* The type is easier to read, and directions around the site are more straightforward.

Anyone know what kind of user feedback they used to guide the new site?

Probably because we ride the same train nearly every day, rail commuters seem friendlier than subway commuters. In addition to "train buddies," we also see the same conductors each day, and they see us, so there gets to be a bit more of a bond there.

This morning on our way in to South Station, the conductor came down the aisle as usual. He paused at the seat in front of mine, and looked carefully at the man slouched in it. The passenger was napping. The conductor gently reached down and adjusted something; to me it looked like he dog-eared a page in the rider's book, so he wouldn't lose his place during the nap.

I was touched, not just by the gesture, but the expression of caring on the conductor's face. Train 804, front car--you know who you are, and thanks.

I found some wicked classic Randolph High School videos (circa 1985) on Youtube... and I posted a couple of 'em on the Globe's FlipSide blog:

I love the clip of RHS students singing "Do They Know It's Christmas" at the school talent show....love it.

And there are plenty more where that came from...take a look:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=RHSClassOf1985

lately I've been trying to produce videos to accompany the articles I write for the Globe.
so far Boston.com has posted three of my self-produced videos in the past couple o' weeks. I'm hoping to do more...when you get a chance, pls check 'em out, I'd love to hear what ya think:

1.) this is my latest one, about prom season (and the
dangers of drinking and driving.....scroll down the story to get to the video link)

www.boston.com/.../a_night_to_remember/

2.) this one ran a couple weeks ago....kinda like my personal

Below Boston is for all your South Shore liberal needs:

Shining a progressive light on the political landscape from Quincy to the Cape.

Via Blue Mass. Group.

South Shore Congressman Bill Delahunt apparently admitted during a hearing on the Patriot Act yesterday that he doesn't know how to turn on a computer, let alone use e-mail. This worries Carpundit:

... Does it trouble anyone else that among the men who are deciding whether to renew the Patriot Act is one so helplessly unsophisticated that he can't use email?

Send Bill Delahunt some e-mail to test the theory.

His Web site could use some help, too.