http://spfldbloggers.com/ A news aggregator for local Springfield Illinois blogs. en-us http://spfldbloggers.com/feed.php Another sunrise last week from the usual spot.* We love Mesker sheet metal building fronts and still hold out hope for finding an as yet discovered one. Maybe even in Springfield.* A reporter gets tased, goes down, gets up, and begins reciting from Hamle... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53085/rss 2012-02-04 22:17:45 FloppingOut » Blog Archive » BREAKING NEWS: BILL BELICHICK HAS NO SOUL http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53084/rss 2012-02-04 21:38:26 Our little guy is 4 months old. Like they say - it goes quick. Really it goes with too many bottles to clean, spit up on your clothes, 3am feedings... But in the end, it's worth it to make this little guy happy.  His hands grasp everything now. He loves ... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53083/rss 2012-02-04 20:47:21 By: Fahmida Y. Rashid, eWeek McAfee’s latest Mobile Security 2.0 enables remote data wipes, tracking and locks, as well as the ability to tell when applications are accessing personal data. McAfee introduced a new version of Mobile Security to prote... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53080/rss 2012-02-04 17:25:35 By Darryl K. Taft, eWeek Storage is being looked at with new eyes as CIOs and CEOs see that storage is a critical component of managing big data, the Internet-of-things, cloud and analytics. Smarter storage is necessary for businesses to stay ahead as dat... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53081/rss 2012-02-04 17:19:52 By: Don Reisinger, eWeek So, what happened And why is the enterprise suddenly resisting the purchase of RIM devices when over the years it had a dramatically different view on things Unfortunately for RIM, the reasons are numerous. By the look of things... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53082/rss 2012-02-04 17:15:32 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Too many days with the grayness of winter had me heading for a color infusion. I ... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53079/rss 2012-02-04 16:13:00 wednesday, the first day of the last winter month, i took lester for a walk because it was warm and wonderful but mostly because he REALLY REALLY INSISTED that he DESPERATELY NEEDED TO GO FOR A WALK. we went all the way down to the little beach area betwe... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53078/rss 2012-02-04 08:48:51 Same clouds as before from a different place.* They're getting rid of the things that make us better people:Illinois’s economy is so bad that virtually nothing is sacred: even historic sites connected to Abraham Lincoln could face significant cuts i... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53077/rss 2012-02-03 21:31:54 The other night I was telling my mom about a cooking class I'm orchestrating for Food Fantasies at the Pasfield House. I started to write a big long thing about it, but it's 10 pm on Friday night, tomorrow is my only day off and I'm trying to relax a bit.... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53076/rss 2012-02-03 21:01:00 by the BBC A crackdown on “phishing” scams has been announced by 15 of the top technology companies. Email providers such as Google and Microsoft will work with companies like Paypal and the Bank of America to improve authentication. Phishing ... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53073/rss 2012-02-03 17:25:33 By Dave Lee, BBC Israel handles over 1,000 attacks every minute, government advisors said. Israel, Finland and Sweden are seen as leading the way in “cyber-readiness”, according to a major new security report. The McAfee-backed cyberdefence su... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53074/rss 2012-02-03 17:20:41 by the White House The public asked the questions, and President Obama answered in the first-ever completely virtual interview from the White House, presented by YouTube and Google+. This may open the door to further interactions using this technology. ht... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53075/rss 2012-02-03 17:15:06 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I almost passed this image opportunity up. After taking a morning walk in Riversi... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53072/rss 2012-02-03 16:29:38 By Ashley GriffinDuring his State of the State address on Wednesday, Gov. Pat Quinn proposed a new initiative to restore vacant foreclosed properties in the Chicago area. On Friday, he was joined by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and six Coo... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53071/rss 2012-02-03 15:53:44 * Alabama Shakes is now one of my favorite new bands, thanks to my buddy Anders Lindall. When he’s not flacking for AFSCME, Anders is a musical guru. With a soul that’ll make you think of Big Mama Thornton, the power of a Janis Joplin, the ... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53070/rss 2012-02-03 14:03:39 I normally would not put up a rant against alternative forms of energy which I believe are the energies of the future. But I love how they all make the same mistake. We as a society must use the CHEAPEST forms of energy. Yet we as a society get to SAY wha... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53069/rss 2012-02-03 12:37:23 * As we’ll soon see, Gov. Pat Quinn took the “Cinnamon Challenge” today. Yeah, I had no idea what that was, either, until I Googled it. Oh, these kids today… The Cinnamon Challenge is a popular dare game in which a person attem... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53068/rss 2012-02-03 12:08:51 * Two Republican legislators held an angry press conference yesterday about a proposed Medicaid expansion for Cook County… Two Republican state lawmakers on Thursday said it would be hypocritical for Gov. Pat Quinn to seek expansion of a health insu... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53067/rss 2012-02-03 10:35:39 * I wrote about this candidate a couple of months ago. But there’s a bunch missing from this story…Michele Piszczor stood in her Southwest Side driveway, pointing to the rusted dent in her car’s driver-side door. To her, it’s a battle sca... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/53066/rss 2012-02-03 09:03:57