powerrow YouTube is one of the most influential platforms in modern media, but its origin story is surprisingly simple: a small team wanted an easier way to share video online. In the early 2000s, uploading and sending video files was slow, formats were inconsistent, and most websites weren’t built for smooth playback. YouTube’s founders focused on removing … Read more
London Callers, I have been sitting on my hands for a couple of days in relative silence. Not because I was afraid to face my supporters (and distractors), but because I didn’t know what to say. I had my last Hail Mary this morning with Garmin. Their office hours are M-F 7-7 (some office hours … Read more
We had a fabulous send-off and will post in detail to thank all the people involved. But first we wanted to share what’s been happening. It starts with this – you may have noticed on the tracker that we’ve headed back to land and done a bit of circling. Things have not gone according to … Read more
London Callers, I spent so much of my youth just trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life. It’s so ubiquitous in our culture today that it’s almost second nature to ask anyone in their teens what they want they are going to be. As if such a profound question … Read more
London Callers, Some of you have reached out and asked me questions, many are comical, many are savvy. I thought I would share a few with you. 1) What are you looking forward to?Leaving Boston Harbor and passing Cape Cod. All of the rocks and islands will be behind us and we won’t have to be … Read more
Champion Rower and Mother of Four Ready to Take on the Atlantic Ocean Just a year ago, Elizabeth Gilmore was learning sweep rowing with Capital Rowing Club, while working full-time managing a data science team and raising a family with her husband. Now, she’s preparing for the journey of a lifetime.In June, Elizabeth plans to … Read more
Hello all and thank you for last Sunday to everyone who came out and even the ones who didn’t come out but gave us their support. It was a big success and I think everyone had a good time checking out the boat and getting some swag. If you didn’t know, Channel 7 was on … Read more
Last Monday was the 128th running of the Boston Marathon, the oldest continually run marathon in the world. The first Boston Marathon came in 1897, a year after the re-emergence of the Olympic Games in 1896 held in Athens, Greece. Of all of the Olympic events, none was more historic than the Marathon won by … Read more
A year ago, John Lowry was going to work and looking forward to another year that was just like the one he’d lived through and the one before that and the one before that. This year, he’s looking forward to something entirely different. In June, the doctor who wanted to be a novelist and a … Read more
London Calling Rowers, During our weekly team zoom meeting, my first mate confessed to me ‘this won’t seem real until we are down to the number of days left equal to the number of days we will be gone’. So, using his math, the illusion that this isn’t reality can persist for another three weeks … Read more