• “Let’s say you were given a year to kill Hewlett-Packard.” — This pretty much sums up everything wrong with HP. The McDonald’s analogy is perfect.

Peter J. Danielson

Peter J. Danielson, age 66, of 2918 40th Street, Two Rivers, died on Wednesday, March 11, 2009, at his residence.

Peter was born on July 14, 1942, in Manitowoc, son of the late John C. and Gretchen (Fuechsel) Danielson. He attended schools in Manitowoc and was a graduate of Lincoln High School, Manitowoc, class of 1960. He married the former Kathleen Farrell on March 21, 1968.

Survivors include his wife: Kathleen Danielson, Two Rivers; two sons and one daughter-in-law: Mark and Lisa (Michalski) Danielson, Minneapolis, Minn.; Michael Danielson, Oklahoma City, Okla.; one grandson: Mathias Danielson, Minneapolis, Minn.; two brothers and one sister-in-law: Eric Danielson, Fla.; John (JoAnn Duffy) Danielson, Racine; one sister and two brothers-in-law: Margaret “Margi” (David) Kindig, Madison; Patrick “Pat” Farrell, Green Bay. Nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends also survive. He was preceded in death by his parents.

Private family services were held on Saturday, March 14, 2009, at the Jens Family Funeral Home & Crematory. Cremation followed.

Memorials may be made to the National Diabetes Foundation.

Rummaging about online tonight in search of data to sufficiently frighten me before me latest class project (the web 25 years from now), I stumbled upon an updated version of the presentation my ops professor launched his ops management class with just over a year ago.

It’s interesting to see how it compares to the original version. Some things have changed even faster than expected.

Here’s to embracing the future in all of its wonderfully gory glory…

• 9/11 (with Allen Ginsberg in mind), by Andrei Codrescu. I’ve linked to this before, but it still seems appropriate  whenever this anniversary rolls around.

• Gustav prompts talk of altering RNC agenda — “A senior McCain source said Saturday that officials are considering turning the convention into a service event, a massive telethon to raise money for the Red Cross and other agencies to help with the hurricane.”

Via Animated Gifs from del.icio.us.

• Flickr set of first-hand photos from the tragedy up in Hugo

• A guide to today’s primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, including a link to Keith Olberman’s excellent dissection of Hillary Clinton’s metrics for success.  (Via Stephen Hero’s Twitter stream.)

• The New Republic: The Audacity of Data: Barack Obama’s surprisingly non-ideological policy shop.
• NYT Op-Ed: A Card-Carrying Civil Libertarian
• Lessig: 20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack

• Twitter Increasing Server Capacity In Runup To SXSW