June 2005 Archives
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
Unbelieveable. As many of you dear readers know, I don't sleep well. I haven't slept well in years. I'm not talking a bit of stress and I can't fall asleep for awhile. Or some days I wake up too early. I'm talking about every single fucking night, I don't sleep. I fall asleep, wake up around 1 and then toss and turn, stuck between awake and asleep until 6ish. On the bad days I'm wide awake from 1 AM on. And then the alarm goes off at 7:15. I have been massively sleep deprived for at least the past 3
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
I am so tired today. But this time, I have a good excuse for being tired. I spent the weekend here: We camped outside of the park and wandered inside Sat and Sun for hiking, and photographing, and general wandering around. There were so many people in the Valley (no surprise, I know). But since it was the first time that B and I had been there, we wanted to be sure to see it. We then wandered out of the valley, up to Tuolumne Meadows. It was farther away than I realized, but it was so gorgeous. There was
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"This is a general social survey of the greater weblog community being conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our goal is to help understand the way that weblogs are affecting the way we communicate with each other. Specifically we are interested in issues of demographics, communication behaviors, experience with weblogs and other technology, and the meaning of various types of social links within the blogosphere." If you have a blog, you should take the survey. It's fun!
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Adaptive Path is headed to Washington D.C. August 22-25 for our annual User Experience Week. This year, we've put together all new material including several in-depth case studies and invited guest speakers such as Jared Spool and Marc Rettig to join us. Please feel free to use, or pass along to friends, colleagues, or clients, my 15% discount promotional code: FOCF. If your friends or colleagues register for the workshop, tell them to let us know during registration and we'll buy you an iTunes album to say thanks for the referral. Here's the link to the workshop info: http://www.adaptivepath.com/events/2005/august We're
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
Like a lot of people, I played around with A9.com, the search engine from Amazon.com, when it first came out. It was neat, but I quickly forgot about it since I use Google pretty exclusively for web searching. Then Goggle Maps came out, and wow! I played with that one too. But I keep using Google Maps, unlike A9. Though, I must admit, I think I confused the fuctionality in A9 with what is available on Google Maps. Well, I was just looking at my Amazon.com shopping cart, and I see that they have started a clever little marketing ploy
Posted by Chiara | Category books
Cane River
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
I'm home. Again. I was in Vancouver, Canada from late Tuesday night until late last night. I didn't get home from the airport until 12:30 AM. I was in Vancouver working with a client. The project was great fun and I think we did some really good work. I hope they are able to implement it as easily as they think they can. It will be so wonderfully cool if they do. It was so nice to sleep in my bed last night. Not that the hotel bed wasn't nice - it was. But I had Freeisa curled up next
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
This swarm of flies has taken up residence in the Adaptive Path kitchen. You walk in and there they are, swirling above you as you fill your water bottle. They make my skin crawl. And my hair itch. It reminds me of when I was in Egypt, and how the flies were everywhere. ICK! Well, today I decided to take matters into my own hands. As I waited for my potato to be baked in the microwave, I got out a broom and began swatting flies. I rather felt like the brave little tailor. And I managed to take out
Posted by Chiara | Category main_page
I have a living room! A very nice couple came by last night and relieved me of the 65+ moving boxes and piles of packing paper that have been occupying the corner of my living room since mid-April. Smudge is rather disappointed to have the boxes gone - he keeps walking over there and crying - since he really liked climbing and scratching on them. I can't believe how much bigger the room looks now. There's still something not quite right with the flow. But it could just be that my furniture is just too honking big for the size
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I spent the long Memorial Day holiday weekend in Sun City Center, FL with my grandmother, Aunt Anita, and her boyfriend Frank. It was a good trip. I got there late Thursday afternoon and didn't leave until Monday morning. My grandmother cracks me up. She is so cute and so funny. Everytime I see her she is tinier and tinier. But she's still a pistol, even though she has Alzheimers. She'll curse at you in Italian "fata fata tuie" (I know that's not how you spell it, but that's how it sounds) which is essentially "mind your own business."
