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VOIP Still Kinda Sucks

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Maybe it’s just been a bad week, but VOIP feels like a rare Concorde-esque backward step in technology. In the past week, I’ve had three separate conversations (all, coincidentally, with software startups) interrupted by lousy phone service. In each case, the person I was speaking to blamed their dodgy VOIP service.
We were reasonably happy with […]

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“Rendition” is an Exotic Thriller

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

After arriving in Chicago, we spent a quiet evening in at the swish and oddly-gothic Hotel Sax (”Monsieurs Lestat and Impaler, your table is ready in the Crimson Lounge”). We watched a movie in our room (reasonably priced at $10): “Rendition”. I’m going to borrow a plot summary from Roger Ebert’s very positive (and highly […]

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The Mystery of Henna Hands

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Before Julie came home from Morocco (she stayed on a couple of weeks to host a family member), she had henna applied to her hands. You can see it here moments after she had it done:

It was applied to both the front and back of her hands. It’s lasted at least two weeks. I’ve been […]

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Additional items in this category:
In Praise of Furnished Apartments
Rethinking Poverty (and Getting Nowhere)
How Living Abroad Limits Choice
My Perfect Trip Home
Songlines, or Tracking Music’s Movement
Uneaten By Camels
Tomorrow, We Go to the Sahara Desert

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