Although this entry is not a direct synopsis from the recent APWA Snow Show that I attended, it is definitely related. My friend, Martin Brown, has a great blog about new technology being used in England for snow and ice control. You can check it out by visiting his fairsnape/isite blog.
Archive for April, 2008
Control the Snow – Part 2
April 26th, 2008 
Pam Broviak Continuing on with a synopsis of a few of the sessions I recently attended at the APWA Snow Show held in April of this year in Louisville, Kentucky: One of the great benefits of attending a conference is the chance to find out what is new in our industry from others who are already using [...]
Posted in Public Works, Transportation 
Tags: APWA, conference, Public Works, snow removal, Snow Show, training 
1 Comment »Science Conference to be Held in World of Warcraft
April 20th, 2008 Pam Broviak In May of this year the World of Warcraft (WoW) will host its first Scientific Conference. Although I am a frequent visitor to the virtual world of Second Life and have even ventured into a few other virtual worlds, I have yet to visit WoW. However, after hearing about this conference, my curiosity was stirred [...]
Control the Snow
April 16th, 2008 Pam Broviak In today’s world, rapid changes in technology are even reaching into the world of snow and ice control. I just spend three days at the annual APWA Snow Show in Louisville, Kentucky, and learned an incredible amount of new information to take back home. On the first day, Richard Hanneman from the Salt Institute introduced [...]
Posted in Public Works, Transportation Tags: APWA, Public Works, Salt Institute, snow removal Comments OffPopular Mechanics – Not your father’s magazine anymore
April 13th, 2008 Pam Broviak This week I was reading an e-mail with an interesting link that ended up taking me to the Popular Mechanics Magazine Web site. Wow, was I surprised at the content I found there. You have to understand my father was an service manager for an automobile dealer and a loyal subscriber of Popular Mechanics. Therefore, [...]
Avatars for Web sites
April 8th, 2008 Pam Broviak Today I was told about a new application (thanks Mal Burns!) that allows someone to establish a tiny avatar, called a weblin, that is displayed on each Web page that is visited. If anyone else with a weblin is visiting that page at the same time, each person can see the others weblin and chat [...]
