Tag Archives: Nashville

Information Security and You

Recently in Nashville there was one of those major security breeches that happened as the result of too much information being on a portable computer drive. In this specific case a laptop was stolen from the Nashville Election Commission with what I think was the entire voter registration database (social security numbers and all). There [...]

Hyper Local Tagging

I wrote yesterday about the location-based tagging app I would like to see come to mobile phones. Today I saw Rex posted about Google Maps having a new collaborative editing feature for custom maps. I decided to create an East Nashville map showing all the local businesses. I got the map started [...]

Brackish E-Commerce

There is an article in today’s Tennessean about how the lines of local retail and e-commerce are getting further blurred. It is this neat retail ecosystem similar to the brackish water where a river meets the ocean.
The article talks about how the three local malls owned by CBL Properties (Cool Springs, Hickory Hollow, and [...]

OMG Me 2!!!

So, last weekend there was a wedding. I have no idea who was getting married since I wasn’t there. I am pretty sure it was a beautiful couple and that they will be happy for a long time. I would even bet someone cried tears of joy.
Well, at the reception for this [...]

An Important Part of Nashville Culture

Nashville has changed a lot since I was born here in 1977. Just yesterday someone was asking me why the hell people call it “NashVegas”. Without the neon and flashing lights on Demonbreun and without the strip clubs and pawn shops on Lower Broad, the term no longer makes much sense. We are [...]