December 2005

Airport wifi still kinda sucks

Recently written in Atlanta’s airport God bless Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International airport for at last offering wifi. But with a catch! You’ve three options: a) a Boingo 2-for-one (two day pass) for $9.95. b) Wifi Zone’s 24 hour pass for $7.95 c) or, use an existing Sprint WiFi account. All well and good for a blogger with a longass layover. But what [...]

December 27th, 2005

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Atlanta + Rants & Raves

Missy & Me on vacation

To get the full effect … Visit the Flickr slideshow (sometimes you’ll need to refresh the page) Select speed of 1 second Press Play!

December 26th, 2005

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About Me

Chorizo con papas, Lulu’s Bakery, San Antonio, Texas

Cross off item number one on the vacation scavenger list … I have eaten a giant chorizo taco.

December 20th, 2005

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Food

LauraFries.com vacation scavenger hunt

I’m actually on vacation! This is my first vacation in a loooonng time … it’s nice. I’m rocking it in San Antonio and Phoenix over the next few weeks. Here’s my to-do list. Making Christmas dinner for the fam, Phoenix, Arizona My garlic butter turkey (no blowdryer this year), mac and cheese, spinach dip, pumpkin cheesecake and veggies [...]

December 20th, 2005

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About Me

AJC.com’s branded newsreader

It’s called ajc4me.com … but who is it for? Several weeks ago, the AJC launched a branded newsreader — AJC4me.com. It comes preloaded with AJC top headlines, and a selection of feeds from the paper and other major news sources like CNN and New York Times. It’s a reasonable strategy against the gains of the other aggregators [...]

December 20th, 2005

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Journalism & the Media

View from the 6th Floor, Tampa Rocky Point Radisson

traveling for business can be ok sometimes plus, i’m wearing a tank top right now

December 14th, 2005

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Images

Visiting the Weekly Planet

It’s good to be back in Tampa, if only for a night. And how charmed was I to see my Stella glass still in circulation in the kitchen? I share with you this: my official Weekly Planet breakfast. Totally excited for the Planet holiday party tonight. Are we drinking scotch again? Or was it whiskey? Joe and [...]

December 14th, 2005

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Quoted: Beautiful defense of the personality that lives alone

Salon.com’s Cary Tennis responding to a 43-year-old newly married woman who was having trouble cohabitating: [... M]any people have the same problem: Identity, or consciousness, or well-being, can be a delicate crystalline structure as well; any interruption and the identity crashes. Consciousness becomes muddled. There are people who are not writers who nonetheless live [...]

December 8th, 2005

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Quoted

Spot the 75 bands: Viral Marketing Works!

How’s this for a bit of smart viral marketing? There are 75 - 0r 74 band names in this image. Can you find them all? I was first sent this image via MySpace, but a quick goog-goog reveals that it’s all over everything. It’s part of a Virgin Digital contest, but it quickly traveled beyond that [...]

December 5th, 2005

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Interweb + Things I Find