April 2009

Gallery: Hauz Khas, Delhi

April 28, 2009

Hauz Khas is a quiet green spot in the madness which is Delhi, with tourist appeal and historical significance. These photos are from my 2004 visit. Or was it 2005? ps There are some nice boutique shops and at least one great restaurant nearby.

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Video: Shooting Presentations

April 28, 2009

The formal presentation accompanied by slides and followed by Q&A is standard fare at conferences and other corporate settings. It makes sense to capture these on video whenever possible, so that you can re-use the material and get greater returns on the investment that the presenter (and the company) have made in developing the presentation, [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-04-26: CO

April 26, 2009

contemplating 25 (now 27) years online: http://tinyurl.com/c2dund # @timfoster sorry to miss you in MPK this week. Will you be back for C1? in reply to timfoster # @ElaineEllis how to start on Doors Open Denver? Not clear on the site. in reply to ElaineEllis # @davewiner I suspect Twitter is so short-staffed they don’t [...]

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Cosmic Ray

April 26, 2009

Garden of the Gods, Colorado

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Capturing Good Sound for Video

April 22, 2009

Disclaimers: I am not a video or audio professional, and am entirely self-taught in this field. What I’m about to tell you is based purely on my experience. Comments, critiques, and amplifications from people who know more than I do are very welcome! The advice below is based on the equipment I am currently using. [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-04-19: CO

April 19, 2009

my memories of Easter: being forced to attend mass with my step-grandparents, half in Latin, half in Slovak, wholly incomprehensible. # RT @billstreeter What The International Media Isn’t Telling You About Somalia Pirates http://ff.im/-24nT9 # @IgorMinar I wondered about that, but the people doing the dumping are not the same ones doing the fishing. in [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-04-12

April 12, 2009

boss off to St Petersburg (Russia) today. Kinda wish I was going, kinda glad I’m not. # @lskrocki – did you know that you’re my BFF? ; ) http://twitter.mailana.com/profile.php?person=deirdres& # Twitter search finds what’s being said about Sun, but not what people from Sun are saying (which may not contain “Sun”). This could be fixed [...]

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St. Patrick’s Day Parade, NYC

April 11, 2009

Ross and I arrived in New York the morning of St. Patrick’s Day – a mistake I will never make again. Our taxi had to drop us two blocks from the Roosevelt hotel because the streets were already blocked off. We then had to fight our way through the crowds (with our suitcases) to reach [...]

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Ellard Roush on Zone Clusters

April 10, 2009

To be recovered Ellard Roush on Zone Clusters. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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It’s Owl Time Again!

April 6, 2009

It’s spring again (although, as you can see, it’s been snowing) and that means baby owls on the BRM campus. Last year’s owl movie

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-04-05: CO

April 5, 2009

@emmabird Clooney actually seems as if he’d be fun to know, but I don’t move in those circles even when I’m at the lake in reply to emmabird # @martinwake he’s got that all wrong, Snoop Dogg is Kinng. A Bollywood film said so. in reply to martinwake # dreamed I got the audience at [...]

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Famous TCKs: Third-Culture Kids in the News and in History

April 5, 2009

Barack Obama: The world’s most famous TCK right now, and maybe that’s a good sign (perhaps it’s fortunate that few American voters recognized the term). …and some of his cabinet. Other Famous TCKs Santiago Cabrera – actor, Hero Julie Christie, actress – “Julie’s father ran a tea plantation in India, where she grew up.” Richard [...]

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Party Animal

April 4, 2009

I never planned to be an event planner, but I do have a lifelong history of entertaining in a big way. This was bred into me during my childhood as an expatriate in places like Dhaka, Bangladesh, where (in 1977) there wasn’t a lot for foreigners to do except invite each other to dinner parties, [...]

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Learn Italian in Song: La Casetta in Canada

April 2, 2009

The Little House in Canada (Panzeri / Mascheroni, performed by Carla Boni and Gino Latilla Rossella’s great-grandmother used to sing this phrase to her. It never made any sense to me then and, now that I’ve heard the whole song, it makes even less sense! But it apparently was very popular in 1960. Quando Martin [...]

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