My phone battery died before the actual meetup started, partly because of some entertaining all-day e-mail exchanges. So enjoy random things that I thought needed to have pictures taken of them over the course of the day while I was traveling down to New York, and looking for sweaters.
Don’t ask. I need sweaters.
The strangest spam I’ve received…well, today, anyway.
Stupid fascist Flickr. Won’t let me do my job properly. And by “properly” I mean “with pictures of hamsters.”
It is unbelievably weird to see a story that we broke at Consumerist on Monday as a “details at eleven” teaser on the local news before “Lost,” complete with exterior shot of the restaurant where it happened.
I finally have a decently-formatted virtual clips page online. I’m linking to my author pages at the various sites I write (or used to write) for, and direct links to some of my favorite work. For Consumerist and AOA, I list everything, since I don’t have enough pieces for either to bother picking out favorites. …
On Tuesday, I made my first Consumerist post, which is somehow now pushing 300,000 pageviews.
Today, I made my second All Over Albany post, which doesn’t have quite as much traffic, but my photos were still met with controversy.
I’m tired of being e-famous. I think I’m going to shut up for the rest of the week.
Wait, no, …
I distracted myself too much and gave in, setting up separate user accounts on my Mac for personal things and for my freelance work. I don’t even have my business e-mail running in a client on my personal account. I’m that hardcore.
If I’m living in my house and using my personal computer for personal things, …
I’m experimenting with the iGoogle start page instead of Google News when I start up my browser. Frankly, news hurt me recently and we need some time apart.
One of the options is a horoscope, and I clicked sort of idly.
Today’s Horoscope for Taurus
Although you may have a flurry of good ideas today, make sure that you pick …
TU likely to charge Web users
None of this is a surprise, of course, and is part of the broader free-fall of the newspaper business, including at the bankrupt Journal Register Co. (owner of papers in Troy and Saratoga) and the Schenectady Gazette (which has had wave after wave of layoffs, and like the TU recently raised prices for …
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