Posey is expected to be recovered enough to be able to come home tonight. She should be as restricted in her movements as possible since she has a lot of stitches and a drainage tube. She is a little trooper!

Posey had surgery today to remove a cancerous tumor that we discovered last week. Thankfully, Dr. Philip Pacchiana, the surgeon who conducted the procedure at Fifth Avenue Veterinary Specialists, cared for her throughout the day. She should be able to come home tomorrow. 

Speedy recovery, Posey!

So, I suppose the New York Times saw my blog post yesterday and wrote their own article on the new Greek and Roman galleries. While they probably had their story already written and in-press before my post last night. They agreed with my asessment and, with interactive images on the NYTimes website, they seem to agree that the 15 year, $220 million renovation was worth the effort.

This past Tuesday I was fortunate enough to have a member's preview of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's New Greek and Roman Galleries. These galleries have been closed for a number of years, and they did a wonderful job converting the former restaurant to an open sculpture court. Click the image to see the other photos I took while visiting on the first day the galleries were open.  

So, there has been a lot of discussion about the bullying policy regarding the Kathy Sierra situation, and it seems to be dying down now. Now that she is back to blogging to some extent, and others, like Tim O'Reilly, are considering a code of conduct. I am amazed how much anger there seems to be about it. So much discussion about censorship on his post, almost like people want an anything goes frontier. I suspect many people censor their comments and do not allow anonymous posts or those that are almost savage in their language, but I am surprised there is seemingly so much anger about this.

I wonder if blog users think anonymous bullying is ok?

Granted, those who engage in the hate and anonymous behavior may want to hide behind their words or fake names or whatever else to be somebody else online (like perhaps Second Life?), but those who would want to do this behavior would never sport such a a badge. Perhaps blogging is like porn or illegal drugs or discreet sex or smoking or drinking–people want them but do not always want to readily admit that they engage in them. What I learned in all this, isthat this issue has really touched a nerve, so I am sure that we are not hearing the end of it.

Well, after having one of the first generation iPod Nano's (it never worked well, the battery did not take a full charge, the volume always had to be to the highest, it was too small for my fingers to easily use, etc.), I finally replaced it this week. I got a new video iPod in black. Wonderful speed and amount of memory (do I have enough media for the 30GB I have?), especially since I decided to give podcasts a chance now that I am still excited from PodCampNYC. Wow, I have been missing a lot!

This is one of the reasons I left full-time IT work. Click the image to make it bigger.

Seems protests work when they are organized and really get going. Imus' show was just canceled by CBS.

I wonder if this punishment backlash fits the "crime?"

I find it interesting how the issue around the racial remarks Don Imus used during his morning show has snowballed to the point that he has now lost sponsors and distributors. Using race and derogatory comments is not new for shock-jocks, but it appears something has changed in what is or is not acceptable as humor. Perhaps it is just because of changing levels of taste? Perhaps these victims of the remarks? Perhaps the language used? Perhaps the persistence of Reverend Al? Or, as I am starting to think, perhaps all of this happened because the vision of equality is starting to take hold?

It will be interesting to see what will happen with future reactions of gays, Hispanics, Asians, the disabled, women, war veterans, those at the lower end of the socioeconomic status, etc., as perhaps it may become more in-vogue to challenge inappropriate comments by shock-jocks. Whether groups have or do not have protected status, that may or may not have much significance when acid-tongued personalities kick down those who are different from them. After all, taste cannot be legislated.