Purely by accident, I happened to run into Rick Turoczy (@turoczy) of Silicon Florist fame on the day Steve Woodward (@oregoniansteve), the Oregonian reporter, was interviewing Rick about Twitter.

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After my first 1,000 tweets on twitter, I've generated this tweetcloud:

Not so long ago, someone (Chris O'Rourke? Scott Kveton?) coined the term portvangelist and spawned a not-your-grandpa's Chamber of Commerce movement to match the term.

Some joker posted an absurd, spurious and probably apocryphal profile of me on Portland on Fire.

If I find out who it is, I'll flood their twitterstream ;)

I just attended the first meeting of a parent/teacher/student group at my daughter's public, science/math/technology magnet school—Winterhaven. The group was formed to deal with a mandate from Portland Public Schools to grow the school's student body, and then necessarily move, or renovate, because the school's current building can only serve about 360 students.