Next week, Steve and I will be packing up our place in DC, moving our furniture into storage and heading to Southern California to live for three months as part of a pact we made in December to split our time between DC (where I’m from) and California (where he’s from). We have no grand …
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Entrepreneurs Taking on Cabs
A few years ago I was in New York chatting with a cabby. The fellow was dirty, smelly, and overweight but fun to talk to. Especially since we were asking him about the black sedans that were all over the city. You can get in one, trade cell phone numbers with the driver, and have …
Getting Starting with Wikipedia: Seven Essential Steps
This weekend, something special happened. And I’m not referring to the fact that Steve and I got up before 9AM on a weekend. A group of women (and a couple men) came together voluntarily on their own time to teach and learn how to edit Wikipedia. For 4 hours, 20 of us sat in the kitchen …
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Top 50 Los Angeles homegrown bands!
This is awesome! The LA Times magazine released the 50 best Los Angeles bands. Each with a YouTube video and open voting for the best LA band. I’m viewing it on the iPad app, which is awesome (LA Times Magazine App), but you can also view it at latimesmagazine.com. The cover everything from the Beach …
The glory of M&M’s
*This is a cross post from a new 1X57 project – OmuthituSchool.com* — Have you ever been away from home so long that you start missing the strangest things? For me it’s always hometown doughnuts and Mexican food. For Spence, who has been in Africa for 16 months, it’s M&M’s. Here’s a message I just received from him: …
The glory of M&M's
*This is a cross post from a new 1X57 project – OmuthituSchool.com* — Have you ever been away from home so long that you start missing the strangest things? For me it’s always hometown doughnuts and Mexican food. For Spence, who has been in Africa for 16 months, it’s M&M’s. Here’s a message I just received from him: …
Funny business, a woman’s career
Funny business, a woman’s career – the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you’ll need them again when you get back to being a woman. That’s one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, …
Funny business, a woman's career
Funny business, a woman’s career – the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you’ll need them again when you get back to being a woman. That’s one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, …
What happened to the iPhone 5?
Between all the hype about iCloud, OSX Lion, and Apple’s WWDC 2011, something went missing. The next version of the iPhone, rumored to be called iPhone 5. So what happened to the iPhone 5? I’ve been crawling the internet everyday (see picture at right) for news and everything is mum. Not my Mom, she is …
Web vs Internet: The Future of Going Online
Here is an interesting debate between Josh Topolsky and MG Siegler talking about Apple’s new iCloud strategy. Josh is making the case that Apple is completely ditching the Internet, and MG is countering that Josh is missing the App revolution. — Josh: “When it comes to Apple, it feels to me like the company views …
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