Posted on February 5th, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
It’s the fastest five minutes I’ve ever spent on YouTube, interestingly, and really cheered me up. I’d love to show this (via Guido) to all of the people who love to tell me how there’s nothing especially interesting or earth-shattering about what we are now doing online. Oh, really?
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Posted on December 7th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
I think this, via Hugh, goes a long way towards explaining why I tend to avoid ‘networking’ events like Britney avoids underwear, and why I take the same approach as Fredd:
I don’t bother “networking” anymore, instead, I try to build relationships with people I find interesting, and who I think are doing interesting things. And […]
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Posted on November 26th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
This was my first Liberty conference, but will definitely not be my last. Five things I loved about it:
1) The conversational feel to the event was wonderful - as both a presenter and as an ‘audience member’. Considering it was a traditional conference format, those lines were admirably blurred.
2) The variety of speakers and […]
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Posted on November 8th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
I’m going to be hosting the next meeting of the Social Media Club’s London chapter, coming up next Wednesday on the 15th. We are pretty close to capacity for this event, but if you’d like to be there, email me (dynamist AT gmail DOT com) and I will make sure you get a place at […]
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Posted on October 29th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Antoine is always trying to convince me to learn how to play bridge, which he enjoys (the legendary Acol Bridge Club is a five minute walk from our house). It sounds boring to me, especially since you can’t talk while you play. Now I find out that, far from being a sedate card game, it […]
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Posted on October 29th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
I was all excited about the Open University course I’m taking (a nutrition course), but then found out (from one of my favourite beauty blog commenters) that the Open University’s teachings about nutrition are all based on the food pyramid. Like my commenter/correspondent, I think the food pyramid is pretty flawed, so am disappointed that […]
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Posted on October 28th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Our Christmas trip to Ohio was only supposed to last three days. For complicated reasons relating to my best friend’s wedding at the end of January, I’ve changed my ticket to stay there for two weeks. Which meant that I had a perfect excuse to surprise Antoine with a New Year’s meet-up somewhere cool (last […]
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Posted on October 28th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
I bought a couple of these Snap Cams for the holiday season - one for Antoine’s 5-year-old nephew (it’ll be a fun project for him to do with his dad or grandfather) and one for a yet-to-be-determined child. It’s a 35mm camera that you build yourself; everything snaps into place, no glue necessary. I’m tempted […]
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Posted on October 24th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
When he was in London this summer, I had the pleasure of throwing a party for Ben Casnocha, the teenage entrepreneur, author, and blogger. Ben’s now taking his gap year travels to Japan, China, and India, and writes from Shanghai:
Once in Shanghai I made my way to a blog reader’s house. It was one of […]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
I wanted to write a round-up review of our trip to Egypt, because I keep telling everyone I see since returning that it was superb, and it seems a waste not to say it here. Sorry, it’s rather lengthy.
First of all, we will go back. And we will stay at the same hotel, Le Méridien […]
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Posted on October 21st, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Sphinx at Giza
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
I finally finished uploading to Flickr all of our photos from the trip to Egypt last week. (Well, there are a couple I took in the airport which are still sitting on the camera.) You may also enjoy this video, which displays a fraction of the terror one feels as […]
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Posted on October 8th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Intellectuals by Paul Johnson (I’m enjoying this immensely, probably because it’s just enough like an issue of Heat or Us Weekly to keep me hooked. Johnson explores the lives of various intellectuals in order to determine their “moral and judgmental credentials to give advice to humanity on how to conduct its affairs”. So far my […]
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Posted on October 1st, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
When I decided to give up salaried work for the freelance and non-profit life, one of my goals was to read more books. I’m doing fine on that. My favourite of late has been Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld, which I loved and did not want to end. Sittenfeld is only a year older than me, […]
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Posted on September 27th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
ME [slamming shut the tiny dictionary Antoine’s had since he was at the Lycée]: Man, I can’t believe douchebag isn’t in there! Grrr!
ANTOINE: Well, you can’t make it anyway.
ME: No kidding.
ANTOINE: I believe it is not a compound word.
ME: Uh, yeah it is…I think. And also, I was JOKING.
One of my favourite things to do […]
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