[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 [...]
Entries from August 2006
Happy Blog Day 2006
August 31st, 2006 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]






