The Office

So, I’ve never really worked in an office, per say. I have had several “business-related” jobs and even been an actual manager once for a whole year. Well, a Property Manager of this complex, which, by the way, is the worst job ever (but I did have a pretty sweet office with a balcony and [...]

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Speaking of Reading…

I found this really cool website:

that allows you to keep a virtual library of your books. You can view them by covers or by title. I love it! I’m trying to figure out how to get the “recent reads” widget to work somewhere in my blog. I’m going to test it here to see what [...]

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Ka-boom

I’ve checked my Apple PowerBook G4 battery serial number about 15 times since I got the dreaded e-mail from Apple a few weeks ago. Each time I am relieved to note that my battery is not one of the millions of “affected” batteries that Sony produced. But the daily updates on engadget about laptops exploding [...]

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This one’s for Jabiz

Those of you that know me, know I can often get over-excited about technology. In a completely dorky way. Well, here I go again…
I was recently discussing the wonders of RSS with Jabiz. I actually said: “Jabiz, you are not truly harnessing the power of the web unless you’re utilizing RSS.” Yes, I said “harnessing [...]

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Read

I just bought this book:

based on the recommendation from my wonderful friend Tammy (who I just spent the whole weekend with at ISKL for a Jay McTighe Understanding By Design workshop).
Here’s the review from Amazon:
“Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and [...]

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Travel Plans for 2006/07

As usual we’ve been working away to set up our travel plans for the year. Here’s how it’s all going to play out:
Redang Island for a long weekend in early October (you remember our pictures from our trip there last year)
Bali for one week in late October
Vietnam for two weeks in December/January
Thailand – Chang Mai [...]

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Google takes over the universe (one map at a time)

I know I’ve been mocking Alex for his deep deep love of Google Earth, but have you seen Google Mars?
 
Wow! Talk about mapping the universe. That Google really is one amazing company…

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Elmo to the max

I am so getting one of these. I mean the old Toss & Tickle Me Elmo doll was good (and I had one, so I know), but eXtreme is always better, right? And, as a matter of fact, my 29th birthday is next week… Alex?

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Fascist States

A friend of mine sent me the following e-mail and I thought I’d reproduce it here (I hope you don’t mind Chris!) since I found it so interesting:
Make your own connections…
Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt:
Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all [...]

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Appreciation

One of the most interesting places we’ve been since we’ve been here (maybe the most interesting place I’ve ever been) was Cambodia.

We went to see Angkor, but while we were there we got to talk to some very friendly and open locals about Cambodia’s recent history. No matter how much I hear about the Khmer [...]

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