August 2001

Pitigliano

August 30, 2001

Pitigliano in Tuscany; I think this trip took place in the summer of 2001.

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Funny Sign: Gas Station

August 29, 2001
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How to Eat Like an Italian: Fundamentals of the Mediterranean Diet

August 19, 2001

You’ve probably heard about the “Mediterranean diet,” and know that it involves a lot of carbohydrates, olive oil, tomatoes, and other fresh vegetables, as well as lots of good red wine. So what does a typical Italian meal look like? A restaurant meal may involve up to four courses: an antipasto, primo (first course), secondo [...]

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Website Content & Management

August 16, 2001

Some of my work on the Adaptec/Roxio sites can still be seen, courtesy of the Wayback Machine (not quite in their original form – graphics may be missing – but you can get the gist). I personally wrote most of the material for these sites, except for the marketing brochure-type pages (product datasheets, etc.). The [...]

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Fanmail (I’m Blushing)

August 16, 2001

8 Nov 1997 – There are heaps of useful information on the Adaptec web site, though if you start out at the main home page it’s hard to find the CD-R/CD-RW stuff. If you want to look at it, try this URL: http://www.adaptec.com/support/cdrec [link no longer works] It gives you rundowns (not always complete or [...]

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EMail Encounters: Anecdotes of a Professional Life Online

August 16, 2001

I’ve spent probably half of my working life answering email. And therein lie a number of tales… Some people were convinced I had to be mailbot, because I answered so quickly. As I told them: “If we had a mailbot this good, we’d be selling that instead of CD-R!” The Unexpected Response It seems that [...]

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Discussion List: Early Experiences in Online Customer Communications

August 16, 2001

“People want to discuss your product or service online. If you don’t give them a way to do it, someone else will.” User to User Support by Derek M. Powazek – on WebTechniques The Adaptec discussion list was created in about 1996 as a way for users of Adaptec CD-R software to help each other. [...]

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Volterra: An Ancient Town in Tuscany

August 15, 2001

The old Roman roads still serve, though they’ve been repaved a few times in the last few millennia. We left Rome on the Via Aurelia (which goes up the west coast from Rome to Genoa), heading for a friend’s summer house in Marina di Bibbona in the Maremma region of Tuscany. Marina di Bibbona is [...]

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Volterra: An Ancient Town in Tuscan

August 4, 2001

August, 2001 The old Roman roads still serve, though they’ve been repaved a few times in the last few millennia. We left Rome on the Via Aurelia (which goes up the west coast from Rome to Genoa), heading for a friend’s summer house in Marina di Bibbona in the Maremma region of Tuscany. Marina di [...]

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Castelli: Traditional Ceramics from the Hills of Abruzzo

August 1, 2001

Castelli is a small town in the hills of Abruzzo (the region on the east coast of central Italy, on the Adriatic sea), famous for its hand-painted ceramics – a centuries-old tradition in the area thanks to its local deposits of clay. You start to see shops along the road kilometers before you get there, [...]

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