Web/Tech

  • We’re Wired

    A big shout-out to Jen from Gothamist, who received a Rave Award from Wired Magazine.  I’m really proud to be part of the Gothamist team, and Jen truly deserves this honor!

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  • I Hear Ya

    I think she’s on to something: "I started online dating at age 35, hoping to meet a few suitors in my new city. But all I met were frantic older men who were more concerned with the state of my womb than with wooing me."  Note to men over the age of 50: you are

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  • Debut

    It’s the debut of the new camera!  I took it to Morandi the other night.  Didn’t take very many pictures, as I only bought the 1G card last night.  Unfortunately, this burrata was ice cold and we had to keep it at the table for a while before it got remotely oozy.  See the rest

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  • Upgrade

    My new digi-cam arrived last night!  Pics to come as soon as I figure out how to use the thing . . . I remember when Mom and Stephen offered to buy me a digital camera in 2003; at the time, I couldn’t imagine that I’d use it all that much.  I used my regular

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  • Just Catchin’ Up

    First of all, in case anyone was wondering what was up with yesterday’s post, Vox is a new blogging system that’s in previews right now.  I’ve been playing around with it — let me know if you’d like an invitation.  Not sure I like the way it displays here on TypePad when you cross-post, though.

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  • Technology — A Love/Hate Relationship

    Last weekend I purchased an iPod nano to replace the antique 4G iPod I’ve had for years.  I fell in love immediately; I could hardly believe that this teeny thing held the same amount of music as my old iPod, which suddenly seemed like a brick.  We got along swimmingly for a few days, until

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  • Feed Me

    So some of you may have been getting sporadic email updates from Bloglet at times when I updated this site.  As you probably know, Bloglet has been incredibly unreliable lately; I’ve gotten comments from friends that they hadn’t gotten an update in weeks and they were worried that I had cut them off.  It wasn’t

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  • From 700 to Zero

    in . . . oh, about a week.  I’m using 43 Folders Inbox Zero series on how to keep your inbox empty.  Given that for the past five years I have used my email inbox at work as a giant repository rather than a useful tool, this is a huge step for me.  Since I

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  • Panic

    Some of you may have noticed that if you tried to get here without typing www, you got an error from TypePad.  Well, now having followed their directions to fix it, this problem is solved.  I now, however, can’t access my sweetblogomine email, or my Gothamist email, which is linked up to it.  I am

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  • Nerd Alert

    I got my hot new laptop this weekend.  I’ve had my previous computer for about six years — it was time for it to go, but it has served me well.  With my return to the corporate world came a return of a lovely phenomenon which I had all but forgotten — the end-of-the-year bonus. 

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