What were they thinking?

Yes, Boston was a mess for periods most of the day today. The "incident" even interrupted my train ride home. We were on the train 5 minutes away from departure time when the announcement came to disembark. "There was a change in schedule for this train. Please return to the station platform."

As we did get off, a squad of transit police with a dog team arrived and proceed to go through the train. Other T personnel were around somewhat ineffectively letting those near them know that when the sweep of the train was complete, the train would be allowed to leave.

I say ineffectively as those near them got the word and it spread second hand down the line. The announcements for other commuter train departures continued uninterrupted. Something was up with our Franklin line train but that was not announced on the main speaker system.

We did leave 20 minutes late after the sweep completed successfully.

Only after I got home did I find out about the rest of the story. The news will continue to cover the latest updates on this marketing stunt that in today's environment, should not have started and seriously took a wrong turn in Boston today.

boston mooninites

Might work late Feb 9th

Heard this afternoon that Jewel will be doing a FREE concert in Boston at South Station on Friday, February 9th.

Gee, I might need to work late or just hang around to catch this one.

Via the Starts & Stops blog.

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Fast Company's Top Jobs for 2007

With my parent hat on, I find and review the outlook provided by Fast Company on the Top Jobs for 2007 with a keen interest. Not that I am looking, but I do have two fine young ladies in college who will be looking soon.

I find it interesting that by my count 7 of the top 10 are design related.

Experience designer, web designer, security systems engineer, urban planners, viral marketers and media promoters, talent agents, and art directors.

(1) Medical researchers, (2) buyers and purchasing agents, and (3) news analysts, reports, and bloggers are the other three in the top ten.

What's that? Bloggers in the top ten. Wowza!

You can read their full listing here. They also have this in a slide show format.

Design certainly is a common item across the seven. I think that communication skills, project management, and internet savvy will also be good skills to have.

What else would you add to the list of skills needed for the future?

Rabbit tracks

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Originally uploaded by shersteve.

With the little dusting over night, we were able to wake up and find that there are other creatures that live in our neighborhood.

They left their mark as they crossed into the stand of trees.