Monthly Archives: May 2009

Google Wave coming this year …

Here is what Google says about it: What is a wave? A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point...

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Worldwide Photowalk …

There is not much to be explained. It is Scott Kelby’s Second Annual Worldwide Photo Walk. The idea is that, on July 18th 2009, folks from all around the world with partake in a photo walk organized by the leaders in their city. The leaders are not paid, there is no fee to take part,...

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It’s Chili Time!

So, I know we’ve been talking about this chili madness for a couple of months.  We finally participated  in the cook-off this weekend.  Totally unique experience, totally fun! Anyway, we woke up at the you know what of dawn, ready to take on our competitors.  We had packed the car two days before.  Apparently, we...

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Amateur Astronomer makes my head spin …

Amateur Astronomer Thierry Legault took these mind blowing and humbling pictures of Hubble and Atlantis. The setup included Takahashi TOA-130 refractor (diameter 130mm, final focal 2200mm), Baader solar prism and Canon 5D mark II. Exposure of 1/8000s at 100 ISO, extracted from a series of 16 images (4 images/s) started 2s before the predicted time....

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Short Track in Richmond, VA!

It’s been about 5 years since I went to my first and only Nascar race in Bristol, TN.  Being a city girl with a constant need to indulge in the urban, the chic, and anything and everything global, I’ve never been a huge fan of the sport.  BUT because we love sporting events in general,...

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TripIt – Organize your travel

Last week I wrote about PackWhiz. I was happy with what PackWhiz was offering and i even starting using it to plan for our summer vacation. I was still not excited to keep track of airline confirmation emails and totel reservations. To put the final piece of the puzzle together I came across TripIt. The...

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Kindle DX out today …

Jeff Bezos is still delivering his keynote in NYC as I am writing this. I was keeping an eye on the Amazon site and voila I see the new Kindle DX there appearing just a few minutes ago. It is priced at $489. Features include: Size – 10.4″ x 7.2″ x 0.38″ PDF Support Storage...

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