September 2008

Portrait of a Videoblogger

September 28, 2008

One of the activities at the Open Storage Summit party was to have our portraits drawn by talented caricature artist Doug Shannon. I’ve been thinking lately about the differences between videoblogging and professional video.

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Professional Videography vs. Videoblogging

September 25, 2008

^ filming at the Open Storage Summit after-party I don’t claim to be a professional videographer (for one thing, I’m entirely self-taught). I do videoblogging, which is fundamentally different. From my (very limited) experience, it seems that professional corporate video is, usually: thoroughly planned (and likely scripted) in advance; involves quite a lot of large, [...]

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There's No Place Like Home

September 14, 2008
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"Why So Serious?"

September 13, 2008

E` tutto il giorno che si sente parlare dell’uragano Ike. Secondo le previsioni Austin dovrebbe ricevere solo un po` di piogga che dopo l’afa di questi ultimi mesi puo` farci solo bene. Una folla di persone spaventate o forse speranzose che arrivi la fine del mondo, riempie i supermercati svuotando scaffalate di cibo creando una [...]

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La Verita`

September 11, 2008

e` che non so COSA voglio. Mi ritrovo catapultata da una parte all’altra del mondo in un arco di tempo troppo breve per rendermene conto. In ogni posto il mio comportamento e` modificato dalle circostanze e non riconoscere me stessa mi fa sentire ancora piu` persa. Mi aggrappo alle piccole cose che sanno di stabilita` [...]

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Batman

September 7, 2008

and Blonde Fox

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The Twitter Diaries – July, 2008, part 2

September 2, 2008

continued from here July 16: !@#$@# can’t do a CO driver’s test in a rented car. Can’t get a car loan without a CO driver’s license. WTF am I supposed to do? I let my California driver’s license lapse a couple of years ago, because they kept trying to get me to do jury duty [...]

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Si, e` da tanto che non scrivo

September 1, 2008

…certe cose mi piace viverle e basta

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The Bi-Professional Couple: A Conundrum Close to the Bone

September 1, 2008

My life is lived in multiples.

I’ve read books, articles, and blogs about multicultural marriage, living, and child-raising. I have written about being a third-culture kid, raising a bilingual child, and living and trying to work in a foreign country.

But this is the big question, more difficult than any of the above: how can a marriage survive being made up of two people whose careers are equally important to each?

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The Twitter Diaries: August, 2008, part 2

September 1, 2008

15: trying to start Girl Geek Dinners in CO Front Range. Don’t know when I’ll actually be around to attend… On the road again. I suspect I live to travel Made a surprise trip to California to help out at an all-hands meeting (Solaris Software) in Sun’s Menlo Park (MPK) office. Met with colleagues about [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: August, 2008

September 1, 2008

Rocky Mountain National Park, August 2008 1: having a very irritating day. I shouldn’t be pre-menstrual right now, but sure could kill somebody. will have to get a Tivo. Can’t bear the political ads, and they will mess up my fall viewing worked out my frustrations at the gym. Last song to come up on [...]

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