Doctor Who

DMB in Concord

Amazing show! Some great slow jams. Sadly, no Everyday/#36 or Ants, but great. I hadn't heard Black Jack before so that was a real treat...



Proudest Monkey
Satellite
Stay or Leave
Seven
Crush
Lying in the Hands of God
Gravedigger
Sweet Up and Down
Funny the Way It Is
Write a Song
You & Me
Stay (Wasting Time)
Shake Me Like a Monkey
Black Jack
Lie in Our Graves
Grey Street
Encore:
Baby Blue
#40
Time Bomb
Stefan solo
All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover)

Should out of state companies be able to bank-roll in-state initiatives?

http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitolalertlatest/2010/03/the-war-to-dera.html


So I was reading about the movement to repeal AB 32 from today's SacBee (see the link above), and while the article semi-asks the question, it led me to more openly wonder: should out of state funds be used to bank-roll an in-state initiative?

Why should any other state have a say in how CA regulates its environment (or anything else for that matter?) This isn't the only instance - Prop 8 received significant funding from non-CA citizens... isn't the point of the initiative system to have a vehicle for CA residents to embody in law something that the legislature can't or won't do because it is not in the legislature's best interests? I think of campaign finance reform or term limits or gerrymandering - we the people might want this but the lawmakers won't act on it because it limits their own power. So we have a way to do it - the ballot initiative system.

But is our vehicle being driven by someone else? And why should we let Texas or Utah or any other state have a major say in how we run our state?

The Developer Guide to Home Energy Management Apps

What happens when the bright minds that make up Google’s and Microsoft’s developer communities get their hands on open software tools focused on energy?: the hope, by many, is some much-needed innovation in the energy industry. This week Google officially opened up the API (application programming interface) of its web energy tool PowerMeter, and Microsoft recently told us it has just released a software developer kit for its energy tool Hohm to a select number of gadget makers.

These moves by the web giants show that the era of open energy information is slowing coming. But will that lead to innovation, which can deliver applications and hardware that can convince consumers to curb their energy consumption? One crucial aspect will be how the developer community responds — on GigaOM Pro I looked at some of the important aspects that developers need to consider when looking to create applications and gadgets based on home energy management platforms (subscription required).
At the top of the list are: how to get the energy information to input into your application (with patience and creativity), how to deal with privacy and security concerns, and how to deal with standards issues.

Clearly it’s still very early days for energy information and the consumer. Mainstream consumers are largely not yet interested in buying home energy management gadgets, and PowerMeter has only signed up a couple thousand users.

And the landscape is also changing for energy information. The California Public Utilities Commission has said that it wants California’s investor-owned utilities to give their customers and approved third parties — which could include Google, Microsoft or other makers of energy data portals — access to the smart meter data collected in utilities’ back office servers by the end of 2010. By the end of 2011, the CPUC wants the utilities to provide customers and approved third parties with “near real-time” data from smart meters. This is still under development and the CPUC is holding a workshop later this month.

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Capitol Alert: Chiang provides dose of good news on state revenues

Capitol Alert: Chiang provides dose of good news on state revenues

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LA Times article on suspending AB 32

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ballot-warming6-2010feb06,0,5959308.story