Personal

I will be traveling abroad starting tomorrow and will not be blogging until early April. However, feel free to email me if need be. Thanks.

I have a bunch of postcards of San Francisco that I bought for cheap from Cody’s moving sale yesterday. Want me to send you one? Email me your mailing address.

It’s less than a year old, and if you buy it before March 20, you can extend the AppleCare on it. Specs are here. I’ll drop the price $40 if you’re a blog reader/friend. Update: It’s been sold, thanks!

Here’s what I’m reading today: Iranian fundamentalists preach in cyberspace (The Guardian Newsblog) DC’s Best Embassies (Washingtonian) The Legend of Barack Obama (Washingtonian) The Demise of Hyphy (SF Weekly) Oops: Columbia j-school dean sends self-evaluation to class (Romenesko) Here’s what I did today: Cover the GDC for the CBC.

Turned out my flight was delayed almost three hours. That, plus bags, plus BARTing home — it was a 15 hour travel day. It’s good to be home.

Readers of this blog will note that most of my posts (like the ones from earlier today) are largely lengthy pull quotes from articles that I’ve been reading as of late. It’s not often that I sit back and reflect on what’s going on in my life. But this year has brought a lot of change to my life both personally and professionally. I began a book project and my career as a full-time freelancer in January 2007, and it’s…

From Sarmad Ali’s new blog, Baghdad Life: I celebrated my first Christmas in 2004, after I had moved to the U.S. to attend Columbia University. One of my classmates, who became one of my best friends here, invited me first for Thanksgiving and then for Christmas. We went to Berkeley, Calif., where his grandparents lived. It was a welcome break from the hectic pace of New York, and it was nice to be with a family again, several months after…

So there’s a really important phone interview that I’ve been trying to set up for months now, and I just missed it. Fuck. He’s in another country, and usually when I schedule interviews across time zones, I just figure out when the interview will be, my time, and input that into iCal with an alarm. However, the time difference between California (ok, plus the other 49) and the rest of the world changed last weekend — and while that normally…

As usual, blog readers get a 10% discount. Email me if you’re interested. Plantronics 500A Base station + Bluetooth headset – $100 Star Trek: The Next Generation TNG DVD Season 1-7 – $300 UNLOCKED Treo 650 + EXTRAS – $200