Category: Philadelphia
July 28, 2005
Wireless Philly
The Philadelphia Business Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Philadelphia Daily News all have articles on the latest wireless pilot project launched Tuesday which gives a free year of wireless internet access to (one square mile of) Philadelphia’s Olney neighborhood. Basically, the City of Philadelphia has formed a non-profit organization (Philadelphia Wireless) which will seek funding, review bids, and coordinate the implementation… 
October 26, 2004
Clinton and Kerry in Philadelphia
This was the scene outside my office on Monday. (I work in the white building in the upper-right corner, behind the orange crane.) Several of my co-workers and I were looking down from a conference room. I counted over a dozen satellite trucks, but we were unable to find any local coverage of the event on television (I’m told there…
September 20, 2004
Speak English
Read an article in the New York Times on the pronunciation of Italian words in New York and New Jersey and went off on a tangent. Found a “guide to Philadelphia English” from the City Paper. Also a more technical discussion of the Philadelphia Dialect. I also discovered a very interesting Harvard dialect survey with maps of the results. Among…