{"id":935,"date":"2009-01-19T08:12:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T08:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/?p=935"},"modified":"2011-11-13T17:23:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T15:23:19","slug":"2008-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/19\/2008-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A yearly tradition, you can check my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/04\/how-i-conquered-the-world-and-how-you-can-too\/\">2006<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/2007-year-in-review\/\">2007<\/a> Years in Review if you are interested. I like to use the Year in Review to reflect not only on activity regarding this blog, but my personal trends and activity as well.<\/p>\n<h3>Social Networking<\/h3>\n<p>A new category for this year&#8217;s roundup, it&#8217;s always been present for me, but since so many people are joining the different networks, you can find me somewhere. I&#8217;ve also begun a new rule: for every new site I sign up for, I delete one of my old accounts somewhere else.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Social Networks using:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/rosso\"><strong>@rosso<\/strong> on Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sara.rosso\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sararosso\">LinkedIn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/msadventuresinitaly\/\">Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asmallworld.net\/\">ASmallWorld<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendfeed.com\/rosso\">FriendFeed<\/a>. In 2008 I became an organizer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlgeekdinnersmilano.com\/\">Girl Geek Dinners in Milan<\/a> as well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Biggest resource of 2008<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/rosso\">Twitter<\/a>. It&#8217;s a sounding board, it&#8217;s my news alerts, it&#8217;s my friends. You can check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sararosso.com\/twitter\/\">Twitter Landing Page<\/a> to find out more about how I use Twitter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Biggest &#8220;sell-out&#8221; of 2008<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sara.rosso\">Facebook<\/a>. I can say that everbody and MY mother <strong>are<\/strong> on Facebook, so you know it&#8217;s mainstream. I&#8217;m the Grinch who blocks applications on Facebook.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Biggest Time-sucker of 2008<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendfeed.com\/rosso\">FriendFeed<\/a>. Some people love it, some people hate it, but I think it&#8217;s going to take more organization and time for groups to settle down to get some real value out of FriendFeed. For now, it&#8217;s too much information, and I&#8217;m straddling the Italian and English groups which can be difficult.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Working with causes, powered by Social Networks and Bloggers:<\/strong> In October we did a fundraiser re: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/03\/o-foods-for-ovarian-cancer-awareness-month-round-up-part-1\/\">Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month<\/a> and raised over $400. It doesn&#8217;t sound like much but we were happy to have helped! In December I participated in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/14\/menu-for-hope-v-your-europe-regional-host\/\">3rd Menu for Hope benefiting the World Food Program<\/a>, this time as the Regional Host for Europe. We raised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstgiving.com\/menuforhope5\"><strong>over $60,000<\/strong><\/a> which is really an achievement in this economic downtime. Thanks to everyone!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Blogging, Photography and Computing<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Most popular 2008 blog posts: <\/strong>Laduree Macarons and Finding the Perfect Macaron Recipe, An Introduction to Italian Candy &#8211; Caramelle, World Nutella Day Recipes: Clusters, Mousse and Cupcakes!, and The Guide to Italian Aperitivo and Drinks in Italy<\/li>\n<li><strong>RSS feeds following:<\/strong> <strong>211 <\/strong>(only up 1 from last year) in 13 categories, with <a href=\"http:\/\/reader.google.com\">Google Reader<\/a>. I use the Trends feature quite often on Google Reader to clean up my subscriptions. I&#8217;m sharing things I read via Google Reader in this blog&#8217;s sidebar as well as you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/shared\/03302212787813482432\">subscribe to my shared items here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>My most popular <\/strong><strong>2008 <\/strong><strong>Flickr pictures:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/msadventuresinitaly\/2208150315\/\">My beautiful friend gets married in India<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/msadventuresinitaly\/2227360217\/\">Pear &amp; Nutella for World Nutella Day <\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera equipment:<\/strong> Still using my <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/msadventuresinitaly-20\/detail\/B000I1ZWRC\">10MP Canon Digital Rebel XTi<\/a>, and my <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/msadventuresinitaly-20\/detail\/B000NK6INU\">Canon PowerShot SD750 7.1MP<\/a> for quick shots and video. This year I bought a new <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/msadventuresinitaly-20\/detail\/B00009XVCZ\">Canon 50mm f1.4 lens<\/a> which I love(d) until I broke it this month in Istanbul. I&#8217;m already looking for a replacement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Backing up Data &amp; External drives:<\/strong> I bought a <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/msadventuresinitaly-20\/detail\/B000RY2PLQ\">Western Digital 250GB Passport<\/a> in January 2008 and then this fall I got a <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/msadventuresinitaly-20\/detail\/B000WGQ68C\">Western Digital MyBook 750GB<\/a> to back up my backups and have another repository for the enormous amounts of data I&#8217;m creating and consuming. I&#8217;m also using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozy.com\">Mozy<\/a> (a Pro account) to do a further backup online of my photos and other critical files.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bloggers met (in person) in 2008:<\/strong> This was a big year for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/22\/5-things-i-love-about-san-francisco\/\">meeting food bloggers as I attended my first BlogHer in July in San Francisco<\/a>. I also met blogger 1.0, Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp in Milan in May and tons of Italian bloggers through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.girlgeekdinnersmilano.com\/\">Girl Geek Dinners<\/a> and other events.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Password Security:<\/strong> After resisting for so long, I&#8217;ve finally decided to start storing my numerous numerous passwords for all my sites and memberships online. Thankfully, a service exists that is run not only by an expat in Italy, but by a friend and fellow Girl Geek. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.passpack.com\"><strong>Passpack.com<\/strong><\/a> is the service &#8211; I definitely encourage you to try it out! It&#8217;s FREE! I&#8217;m loving it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Reading and eBooks<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Books (new) read in 2008<\/strong>: 69 (100% were ebooks). These are only new books for this year &#8211; I tend to re-read from my library as well. My digital library is almost as big as my shelf library was back in the States.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ebook Advocate<\/strong>: I have been digital for 3 years now and I&#8217;ve never regretted it. This year I&#8217;m going to try and calculate how much money I&#8217;ve saved (will be a lot since I&#8217;d have to pay Amazon shipping or Euro prices here in Italy).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Biggest reading month:<\/strong> December &#8211; 9 books.<\/li>\n<li><strong>eBook readers used:<\/strong> <strong>HP iPaq<\/strong> and luckily retired that in July for the <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/msadventuresinitaly-20\/detail\/B0012JCZYM\">Apple iTouch 16GB (1st gen)<\/a> which is easily my favorite gadget of the year. Because of the iTouch and the apps available for it, I&#8217;m reading mostly<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ereader.com\"> eReader format<\/a>, and hoping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobipocket.com\">Mobipocket<\/a> will come out with an app, too, but not holding my breath (they are owned by Amazon!) I also tested the iRex Iliad for 2 weeks and played with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device\/dp\/B000FI73MA\">Kindle<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Open Source Software<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Advocacy:<\/strong> I made a presentation at the Girl Geek Dinner in Milan in October talking about advocacy and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenihavetime.com\/getting-involved-in-open-source-software\/\">getting involved in Open Source Software<\/a> (English). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/girlgeekdinnersitalia\/open-source-e-le-girl-geek-presentation?type=powerpoint\">Italian version is here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Software I&#8217;m Using:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> for websites\/blogs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firefox.com\/\">Firefox<\/a> web browser, <a href=\"http:\/\/filezilla-project.org\/\">FileZilla<\/a> for FTP, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/\">VLC<\/a> media player, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">Open Office<\/a> docs and spreadsheets, <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/pdfcreator\">PDFCreator<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/synkron.sourceforge.net\/\">Synkron<\/a> synchronization software, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7-zip.org\/\">7 Zip<\/a> zip files.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Saying Goodbye to Microsoft Office<\/strong>: I officially uninstalled Microsoft Office from my home computer and I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\">Open Office<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\">Google Docs<\/a> for all my document needs outside of work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Still Dependent on non-OS:<\/strong> Adobe Photoshop. I&#8217;ve been using it for about 12 years now and I feel comfortable in it. I&#8217;ve been trying out Open Source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\">GIMP<\/a> for some simple operations in the meantime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Food, Cooking &amp; Eating<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best New Discoveries:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/better-than-nutella-deanocciola-chocolate-hazelnut-creams\/\">Organic Nutella<\/a>, homemade macarons, Ferrero&#8217;s Rondnoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/07\/taos-pueblo-native-americans-adobe-indian-fry-bread\/\">Indian fry bread<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/28\/how-to-love-granita-siciliana-with-a-briochefor-breakfast\/\">Sicilian granita for breakfast<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/chinese-ice-cream-street-food-in-india\/\">Indian street food<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Food Trends in 2008: <\/strong>eating local \/ locavores, BACON everything, cupcakes still hung on this year.<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/2008\/12\/the-year-that-was-time-magazines-2008-food-tr.html\">Time Magazine looks back on 2008 trends<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trends in 2009 I see coming up: <\/strong>more bacon, urban gardening and farming, and a return to comfort foods as haute cuisine. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/articlesguides\/blogs\/editor\/2008\/12\/epicurious-pred.html?mbid=rss_epilog\">Epicurious predicts their 2009 trends<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>First, let&#8217;s look back: How did I do on my <strong>\u201cI Dare\u201d cooking challenges for 2008<\/strong>? Not as well as I&#8217;d hoped.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Macarons<\/strong> &#8211; I made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/19\/chocolate-macarons\/\">macarons<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/12\/dark-mint-chocolate-french-macarons-recipe\/\">several<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/14\/colorful-cinnamon-easter-egg-macarons-recipe\/\">times<\/a> this year and love making them! I expect to make several more varities this year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roast<\/strong> &#8211; Left over from 2007&#8217;s goals, though I didn&#8217;t blog about it, I went on a roast-making rampage in the autumn and I now feel like a certified roast maker.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Orecchiette and Ravioli<\/strong> &#8211; I had an orecchiette-making lesson in December that I haven&#8217;t blogged about yet. But my raviolis definitely need some more attention.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bread<\/strong> &#8211; Not much excuse here, I didn&#8217;t make much bread.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Indian<\/strong> &#8211; I also spent more time eating than cooking Indian.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So what&#8217;s in store for <strong>&#8220;I Dare&#8221; cooking goals of 2009<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Cake, cupcake, cookie decorating<\/strong> &#8211; I got a good piping set this summer but I haven&#8217;t had much practice with it. There&#8217;s a pretty impressive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilton.com\/decorating\/\">decorating section on the Wilton site to get me started<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>12 Fresh Pastas<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m going to dedicate myself to fresh pasta this year, at least one new type a month. Orecchiette and ravioli will definitely play a part.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alternative flours, grains and legumes <\/strong>&#8211; I played with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/19\/quinoa-and-salted-ricotta-for-livestrong-day\/\">quinoa<\/a> this year, but I want to delve more into wheatberries, lentils, millet, barley, etc. and use alternative flours like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/chestnut-flour-chocolate-chunk-muffin-recipe\/\">chestnut flour<\/a> and chickpea flour in my cooking.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Playing with Flavored Liquor<\/strong> &#8211; after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/23\/basilcello-basil-liquor-recipe\/\">making my own Basicello liquor<\/a> in 2007, my appetite has been whetted for more. Italy is a great place to be if you love flavored liquors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Croissants<\/strong> &#8211; Since I love a good croissant, and Italy&#8217;s &#8220;cornetti&#8221; or &#8220;brioche&#8221; on average are mediocre, I&#8217;d like to try my own hand at them. Luckily the <strong>Daring Bakers<\/strong> have left a ton of tutorials for me to follow!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Can you come up with 5 &#8220;I Dare&#8221; cooking goals for 2009?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Travel and Moving Around<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cities lived in:<\/strong> 1 &#8211; Milan, Italy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Countries visited:<\/strong> 2 &#8211; U.S., India (Jan 2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Years without a car:<\/strong> 5.5 and counting. I thought for sure we&#8217;d buy a car in 2008 but it hasn&#8217;t happened yet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carbon:<\/strong> According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dopplr.com\">Dopplr<\/a>, a service I used to track my travels, I Total:           <span class=\"total\">2,227 kg CO<sub>2<\/sub><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>New Year\u2019s Resolutions<\/h3>\n<p>I would like to say I don&#8217;t believe in New Year&#8217;s resolutions, but I do. Someone who loves lists and goal-setting as much as me? I have a few, but I&#8217;m not publishing them online this year.<\/p>\n<p>How was 2008 for you? Did you make New Year\u2019s Resolutions? Do you hate them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A yearly tradition, you can check my 2006 and 2007 Years in Review if you are interested. I like to use the Year in Review to reflect not only on activity regarding this blog, but my personal trends and activity as well. Social Networking A new category for this year&#8217;s roundup, it&#8217;s always been present&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/19\/2008-year-in-review\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[82,21,22,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-me","category-random","category-tech-talk","category-tips","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uB1-f5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2833,"url":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/2010-year-in-review-sites-tools-statistics-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":935,"position":0},"title":"2010 Year in Review: Sites, Tools &#038; Statistics","author":"Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy","date":"January 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Past editions of my year in tools, sites & statistics: 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006. 2010 was a difficult and great year for me - I did a lot of freelance projects in addition to my fulltime job, which meant I blogged less frequently but one of those opportunities turned into\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Me&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Me","link":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/category\/me\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2252,"url":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/08\/2009-year-in-review-my-tools-sites-and-statistics\/","url_meta":{"origin":935,"position":1},"title":"2009 Year in Review: My Tools, Sites and Statistics","author":"Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy","date":"January 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's that time of year when I geek out over what has happened in 2009, in terms of social networking, blogging, my photography, travel, and food! 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