Entries from August 2006

Happy Blog Day 2006

August 31st, 2006 · 2 Comments

[Music] – I am really loving Juliet’s – Avalon – a dance/electronic song that is hypnotizing. Thought she was foreign, she’s from Philly. Go phigure.
CNet picks the Top 10 Google apps.
For my stepdad Howard – Survival kit in an Altoids tin

It’s Blog Day 2006 – the day you should be posting 5 blogs new to [...]

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Tags: Italy

Eating humble pie

August 29th, 2006 · 4 Comments

Music: British Lily Allen’s “Smile” – very singable. You can hear other songs from her album on the site. A better use of pop reggae than that blond heiress.
Really interesting graph about McDonald’s and Starbuck’s world diffusion and domination – Notice the lack of Starbucks in Italy

I wrote in a previous blog post about combinations [...]

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Tags: Culture · Food · Italy

9 Times the Charm: Venice

August 22nd, 2006 · 4 Comments

You can also now reach my blog by using www.msadventuresinitaly.com !!
Cool site: Following in Wikipedia’s footsteps, Wiki Travel, an free, editable travel guide is going strong. The Italian language version just launched.

Some Italian city guides (English): Milan – Rome – Venice – Florence – Naples

I just can’t look at Fergie (aka Stacey Ferguson from the [...]

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Tags: Food · Italy · Venice

Moving from Blogger to Wordpress

August 20th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Only about 27% of my visitors are using Firefox for a browser. Make the switch! Two cool plugins I really like and am using:

A weather forecast at the bottom of your browser toolbar.
Now you don’t have to open IE for that one pesky site that wants IE. Open a site in IE from within your [...]

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Tags: Tech Talk

Ferragosto, Il Palio, The Quiet

August 17th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Folks, I’m changing from Blogger to Wordpress, so bear with me. A few inconsistencies will show up! :) This post was written yesterday.

Feel like dating yourself? How many of these GUI Desktop evolutions have you used?
We all need a Captain James Kirk pick-me-up: Star Trek Inspirational Posters – my favorite is probably this one, [...]

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Tags: Holiday · Italy · Tuscany