Best of the Web 2007
Here they are. These are the best and brightest web sites out there right now. What do they win? Nothing… but maybe they’ll get a few new visitors when this hits the presses. Check them out, and leave comments!
Netvibes has become my homepage of choice as of late. It competes with iGoogle and PageFlakes in the personalized homepage space. Netvibes wins out because it looks cooler (I’m into visuals) and it has a ton of useful widgets to choose from. Some of my favorites are Google Calendar, Facebook, Weather, Twitter, and Gmail. You will begin to see that everything is connected on the web these days… netvibes does a pretty good job of pulling it all together.
Facebook is a major game changer. Never has a social network been so useful or prolific. Everyone shook their heads in amazement (including me) when Mark Zuckerberg was reportedly turning down $2 Billion offers to sell. Now the company has a valuation of $15 Billion!! It’s worth so much because it has so many users. It has so many users because it’s so addicting and useful. Yes, it will waste your time – a lot of your time. But it will also allow you to stay connected (even if minimally) with many, many people (which can be bad too). It’s become a one stop shop for checking in on everyone, and letting your friends see what you’ve been up to.
Say what you will about Wikipedia. It’s an encyclopedia that literally anyone can edit. The results could be disastrous right? Poor information could get spread all over the web… I look at it like this. Even though there’s a high probability that everything on there isn’t correct, it gets me a hell of a lot closer to the truth than I’d be without it (and quickly too). If nothing else, it points me in the right direction. One thing I always keep in mind when searching Wikipedia is how polarizing is the topic? If you’re looking up Hillary Clinton, or the Iraq War for example, who the heck knows what you’re going to get… This is a case where you’ve got passionate people on two sides of a topic (conservative and liberal), and they’ll be constantly overwriting each other on Wikipedia.
I’ve been a huge fan of Flickr for about two years now. I use Flickr so much, that some of my friends even call me Flickr. There are plenty of photo sharing sites out there and people often ask me what makes Flickr the best. I think if you love, photography (and I do), the community is what makes Flickr so good. You get to see amazing photos by people from all around the world. You can ask them what they did to get the shot. You can even see what camera they took the picture with in most cases. Flickr is the gold standard right now if you’re interested in photography.
Google knows what’s up when it comes to web applications. They either build the best or buy the best. I’m pretty sure they built Gmail from the ground up. Gmail is so smooth and easy to use, I almost hate using it because I have to use an alternative at work. It’s easy to search (Google is pretty good at that by now), and it’s easy to set up automatic rules. Even though it’s the best, they are still rolling out improvements. Google probably knows everything about me by now (since their computers are crawling my email)…should I be worried? I’m not.
Meebo is a problem solver. I’ve got friends that use multiple instant messaging clients, and it would be a huge pain to sign into all of them at once. That’s where Meebo comes in. It let’s me sign into Google Talk, AIM, and MSN all from one spot. It’s also completely web based, which means I don’t need to download anything to use it. They’ve even announced video chat for up to 6 people at once. I’ll probably never use that…but I could.
Popurls is where I go daily to find Interesting stuff on the web. I used to go to Digg for this, but I’m not impressed with the quality of info on Digg lately. Popurls (think popular urls) brings in the top stories from a ton of sources (like Google New, Del.icio.us, Digg…). I get to see it all in one place and the interface is very clean.
I wasn’t sold on the value of del.icio.us when it first came out a couple years ago. It’s a website that lets you store your bookmarks online. Now I use it as my repository for anything new and interesting. Every time I find a new site that I like, I plug it into del.icio.us and tag it with meaningful key words — this makes it easy to find later with a simple search. I’m also a big fan of the way it can separate your tags into different RSS feeds/pages. For example, here are all of my bookmarks that have been tagged “Belgium”
Simple GTD is all about Getting Things Done. And that’s what I like. It’s an online To-do list tool with everything you need and nothing you don’t. You can easily create multiple lists and drag items from list to list. I usually have this open all day at work and it keeps me on track. If you want something a little more robust, try basecamp. If you want something a little less robust, try pen and paper.
Google Reader is, hands-down the best RSS reader I’ve ever used. If you don’t know what RSS is, or why it’s important, click here for an explanation. Google reader lets me quickly browse top stories from all of my favorite sites in one place. If I find something good, I can “star it” and it becomes easy to find at a later date. It also has a slick e-mail sharing feature that lets me send stories to people quickly. The interface with my Gmail account automatically brings in my contacts, so I only need to type the first few letters of someone’s name and it finds their email address. I also really like the shared RSS feed feature. This allows me to share my favorite stories with whoever wants to subscribe to them.
Honorable Mention:
Mint is a great tool for managing your finances in one place. It would be a top site if it was better at categorizing my expenditures.
Deezer let’s you make music playlists that you can post all over the web (like this one).
Meetup is a great tool for finding people with common interests around you. It helps you find events in your area, and it will even export the even calendar automatically to Google Calendar, iCal, etc.
Mango offers a ton of free foreign language courses on the Internet. Nothing beats learning a language one on one with another person, but this is about as good as it gets on the web.
Geni is a great Family tree building site. It let’s you post photos of family members and will send you email reminders when someone’s birthday is coming up.
Sketchcast is a tool that let’s you draw out diagrams and record your voice at the same time. It’s great for creating lessons on something, or explaining material over the web. After you create a sketchcast, you can post it on your blog, etc.
- Amazon’s Kindle: Huge Potential, Not Where You Think
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December 9th, 2009
In September of this year, Mashable proclaimed “Apple’s Tablet Will Eat Kindle’s Lunch“. The article went on to criticise the Kindle device on a number of levels, such as the fact that it’s not in color, and that it doesn’t have fancy multitouch functionality. While I agree the device will soon be left in the [...]
- Lollapalooza 2009 #FollowFriday…
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August 7th, 2009
This weekend, Lollapalooza is finally upon us in Chicago.
And for anyone keeping score, this marks the first summer where fans can connect directly with the vast majority of artists, in real-time, using Twitter. Here is a list of all the Lolla acts and their Twitter names
- Web Video : Step-by-Step to Create, Share & Track
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July 29th, 2009
This week I was asked to speak at the Social Media University conference in Milwaukee about “viral video” on the web. I don’t believe there’s a special formula to follow that magically equals viral distribution, but I think there are many things you can do to set yourself up for success.
In the slide deck [...]
- A Taste of the Spreenkler Community
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July 24th, 2009
The Spreenkler group in Milwaukee is one of the more creative, driven sets of people that I’ve ever met. In this video, Brian Artka gives a little taste of what the crowd is like. Great work Brian.
- Introducing blakeju.mp – my life online
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July 18th, 2009
As you may have noticed, the activity on my blog tends to wax and wane. If you’d like to get some more frequent updates, you should check out blakeju.mp. The site aggregates most of my online activity into one place.
In other words:
This blog + ActionsTalk + Twitter + Posterous + Flickr [...]
- The iPhone Continues to Amaze…
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May 26th, 2009
I saw two videos today that made me think we’re only beginning to see the raw potential that lies in the iPhone. When Apple decided to open the platform up to developers, it was such a brilliant idea! Building a platform and letting others take it and run is a very compelling business model. [...]
- Entrepreneurs Can Change the World.
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May 14th, 2009
Here’s a great video I found that really speaks to the entrepreneurial spirit. I highly recommend it.
Even if you don’t work for yourself, you can think and act like an entrepreneur. How are you changing your company, your community, your world for the better?
- $5K in 5 Days Campaign This Week!
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April 28th, 2009
Friends and Family,
I’d like to bring to your attention a fantastic charity opportunity that is being organized by two of my close friends, Allen Burt and Ryan Graves. This week (beginning April 27, 2009) marks the beginning of their $5K in 5 Days campaign. The goal is to raise money to buy books for school [...]
- Panography at Yerkes Observatory
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April 6th, 2009
Over the weekend, Erica and I visited the Yerkes Obervatory, near Lake Geneva, WI.
Yerkes Observatory, which calls itself “the birthplace of modern astrophysics,”[1], is an astronomical observatory operated by the University of Chicago in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. It was created in 1897 by George Ellery Hale and financed by Charles T. Yerkes. The observatory represented [...]
- Twitter Focus: Solving The “Groups” Dilema
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March 2nd, 2009
File this one away with my series of posts focused on Information Overload…
One major gripe I’ve had with Twitter for some time now (and I know I’m not alone here) is the inability to group the people you follow into certain categories. Let me explain. Currently I’m following (receiving updates from) upwards of 600 people [...]
- Twitter Mug
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February 28th, 2009
How’s this for a pop-culture, sign of the times item? A coffee mug with all the people you’re following on Twitter. You can pick one up for $12.95, at sxoop.com.
- My View of Milwaukee
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February 11th, 2009
Panography using 100+ photos.
Click on the image to view it BIG.
- Fonts Based on Your Handwriting From YourFonts.com
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February 7th, 2009
Do it at YourFonts.com
- FollowBack? A Twitter App Idea
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February 4th, 2009
“Subject: ‘______’ is now following you on Twitter!”
Are you sick of the Twitter follow back process? You know, the one where you get a dozen emails from Twitter and you have to go into each one to figure out if all these people are worth following? The process is pretty inefficient if you think about [...]
- Teecycle Photo Shoot with Valo Photography
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February 3rd, 2009
Over the weekend, I joined a few friends at Bucketworks to model T-shirts for Teecycle.org. Teecycle sells used shirts and gives a portion of the proceeds to charity.
Simon and Jake from Valo photography shot the whole thing, and they are extremely talented as you can see below. Well a good model doesn’t hurt of course [...]
- Bubbling Up the Communication that Matters Most
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February 1st, 2009
In this day in age, those of us that have chosen to dive head first into the social web are bombarded with communication from every angle. Information overload is a very real thing, and I believe the need for software to help us filter and prioritize this information will grow exponentially in the coming years.
So [...]
- Alterra Morning Wallpaper
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January 21st, 2009
Check out the wallpaper I just made on Flickr:
- Experimenting with Cross-Processing in Photoshop
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November 3rd, 2008
Tonight I’m trying some cross processing techniques that I first saw in a tutorial from Layers Magazine.
“Cross processing (sometimes abbreviated to xpro) is the procedure of deliberately processing photographic film in a chemical solution intended for a different type of film” – Wikipedia
It’s a fairly simple process in Photoshop, achieved with a new curves adjustment [...]
- The World Today: Most Popular Social Networks
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October 19th, 2008
I saw an interesting graphic this morning, depicting the popularity of various social networks all over the world. Some items of interest:
* Myspace still looks to be the world leader with Facebook close behind. I’d expect this gap to grow with the announcement of the Myspace Music platform.
* Google owned “Orkut” is the leader in [...]
- Declutter Projects
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October 7th, 2008
After doing my six month stint in Europe, I came home to a mess. I’ve been systematically checking off different areas of my place to get everything de-cluttered and organized.
Some of these before pictures are down-right embarrassing, but I think they really illustrate how far some zip ties and a shelf can go for your [...]
- iTunes “Genius” is a Hit
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September 19th, 2008
I recently upgraded to the latest version of iTunes and noticed that they’ve implemented a new feature, Genius Playlists. Now I can select a song in my library that I’m in the mood for and iTunes will suggest a whole playlist based on certain qualities of that song. Granted, this is just like Pandora for [...]
- Nokia Nseries Commercial Makes You Think
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September 12th, 2008
That’s a damn good ad.
- My Best Photos from the Last Year
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September 10th, 2008
“Grand Place”
I like this photo because it abstracts the incredible structures of the Grand Place (Brussels, Belgium) and focuses on the cobble stones below. It’s always good to look at things from a different perspective.
“Pudong (Shanghai) from The Bund”
Well, how often does one travel to China? For most people, not very often. [...]
- Incredible Photos From Flickr’s Finest
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September 8th, 2008
One of the greatest things about Flickr is the phenomenal photography from the community. Here is a slide show of my favorite photos. These are a great inspiration to a hobbyist like myself.
- Finding Value: Social Network Recommendations
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September 4th, 2008
My camera mysteriously stopped working a few weeks ago. After sending it back to Casio and having them not honor my warranty (I won’t get into it here, but if you want the details, I’ll tell you), I have decided that I’ll probably have to buy a new camera. My hand feels lost without one.
With [...]
- weapon of choice
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September 3rd, 2008
An awesome photo I found tonight on Flickr
weapon of choice, originally uploaded by aperitive.
- Complete Blog Redesign Tonight
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August 31st, 2008
Time check: 2:41AM … and I just finished a complete overhaul of this site’s design. What do you think?
Old design:
New design:
- Mozilla’s Ubiquity – Bringing the Web Together
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August 27th, 2008
Mozilla, the same company that brought you the phenomenal Firefox web browser, has just announced their Ubiquity prototype today. It’s a technology that lets you bring aspects of the web together without opening different sites. For example, if you’re typing an email to a friend about dinner plans at a restaurant, you can [...]
- Communication Segmentation with the iPhone
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August 24th, 2008
Everyday we’re getting slammed with information from every angle, so I’m always looking for better, more efficient ways to make sense of it all. Last week I found myself deleting dozens of email alerts and notifications from Facebook, Twitter, and various banks. While this information is arguably important, I’ve decided that it’s clogging up my [...]
- I love Nike commercials
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August 18th, 2008
Nike (or whoever does their marketing) has been making inspiring commercials for as long as I can remember. I just found a site that lets you check out many of their new ones (Videos – Nike ).
You know you’re doing something right when people search out your ads instead of fast-forwarding through them…
- Lollapalooza 2008 in Photos
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August 5th, 2008
- ActionsTalk – A New Direction
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July 2nd, 2008
As some of you may know, ActionsTalk has been evolving. Two months ago, we set out to create a conference in the Milwaukee area that brought together three key pieces of successful tech companies: 1. Tech saavy developers/engineers, 2. business minded entrepreneurs, and 3. venture capital. Ryan Graves and I saw the potential for the [...]
- New Bike!
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June 11th, 2008
The summer in MKE will now truly be that much sweeter. Check out my new ride… I went with the Specialized “Allez” (French for “Go!”). I’m counting on a lot less of this.
- Milwaukee Sunset – After the Storm
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June 10th, 2008
- Severe Weather: Milwaukee Gets Slammed!
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June 8th, 2008
Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms ripped through Milwaukee this weekend…
- Brilliant Time Lapse Video by Ross Ching
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June 7th, 2008
Do yourself a favor and watch Eclectic 2.0 by Ross Ching. What a great thing to wake up to! And if you’re interested, here’s how he made it. I’m already looking for this equipment…
- Highlights from Europe 2007 – 2008
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May 29th, 2008
- Random Spring 2008 Photos
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May 29th, 2008
- World’s Largest Self Portrait
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May 26th, 2008
- Why I’m buying a bike
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May 12th, 2008
aside from the obvious health benefits, of course…
Update: I got one!
- What if Real Life Was Like Facebook?
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April 30th, 2008
I laughed out loud.
- 6th Street Bridge
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April 29th, 2008
A photo from last night’s walk in Milwaukee
- Sunday Afternoon Film Project
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April 28th, 2008
I did a little stop-action film project with my friend Tad today. I’m mostly behind the camera and only make a short cameo as a stunt double — can you see where? And now, without further ado, I give you the Brady Street Skate vid…
- Do More With Your Photos – Two New Apps
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April 17th, 2008
Two new applications I’ve been impressed with are Piclens and Animoto.
Piclens is a plugin for Firefox that lets you view photos on the web in a new, completely immersive way. Once you have it installed, it integrates with all the major photo sharing sites: Flickr, Facebook, Google Images, Smugmug, etc. With [...]
- Hilarious Harlem Globe Trotters Spoof
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April 16th, 2008
Having just seen the Harlem Globe Trotters on ESPN last week, I can’t stop laughing at this spoof from rejectedjokes.com.
“That’s not etiquette. That’s not the basketball I know.”
- Improved saynoradio.com
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April 15th, 2008
If you haven’t yet, check out the new, improved saynoradio.com — Saynoradio is a site I’ve started with some friends, dedicated to the Indie Music scene.
- Light emitting wallpaper
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April 14th, 2008
Check out this cool light emitting wallpaper on Inhabitat.com
- An Interesting Ad About Awareness
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April 12th, 2008
I found this video today over at the Creative Cooler blog. It’s a clever way to get the message across…
- Lollapalooza 2007 Clip
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March 23rd, 2008
I put this little diddy together today with Animoto (which is an awesome site)
- Winter…Not Over Yet
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March 21st, 2008
I’ve been back in MKE now for two weeks, and it looked like the weather was turning for the best…Until today
- How to Light Paint
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February 16th, 2008
Light painting is brand new to me, but I saw a few examples scattered about the Internet, and decided to try it last night.
Here are a couple of the better pictures:
And here’s how you do it:
Ingredients:
1. Camera that can be set to have a long shutter
2. Flashlight
3. Pitch Black Room
That’s it…
Ok, so if you’ve [...]
- Griff Visits Belgium
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February 5th, 2008
The Grizzle makes the trek across the ocean for a weekend in Europe. Hilarity ensues…
Note: This is in reverse chronological order for some reason.
- Europe Travel 2007-2008
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January 24th, 2008
I’ve been traveling, and traveling, and traveling lately…
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- How to Learn Online for Free
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January 22nd, 2008
You can find almost anything for free on the Internet these days, including education. So if you’re a motivated self learner, and it’s the actual knowledge you’re after (not a paper to hang on your wall), here is a round up of sites to get you started.
Business Courses
* Medical Product Quality System- [...]
- Picture Seen Around the World
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January 5th, 2008
This photo we took at the Hofbrauhaus, Munich has now been viewed over 390,000 times now!
Stats for the photo:
Comments on Digg.com…
Comments on Reddit.com…
- Super Euro Trip
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December 13th, 2007
Tonight I stumbled across the blog we put together when we were backpacking all over Europe two years ago. We hit 15 cities in 30 days… obviously too much, but we got to see a lot. Since then, I’m much more likely to go to only one (and max 2) places on a [...]
- Photos: Latest Trip to Paris
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December 2nd, 2007
The photo above has received more comments and views than any other picture I have ever put on Flickr, so I thought that I should post it here. What do you think? I’m a big fan of night photography like this. I’ll post more of an update soon. I’m in London [...]
- O$LO, Norway
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November 23rd, 2007
Oslo, Norway…where a McDonald’s combo meal will cost you $18 USD and even the airport looks like a ski lodge.
- Best of the Web 2007
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November 23rd, 2007
Here they are. These are the best and brightest web sites out there right now. What do they win? Nothing… but maybe they’ll get a few new visitors when this hits the presses. Check them out, and leave comments!
Netvibes has become my homepage of choice as of late. It competes [...]
- Paris last week… UK this week
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November 11th, 2007
Here are a few pics from my trip last week to Paris (more, as usual, on Flickr):
Tomorrow is a holiday here, and I’m heading to Manchester, England for the night. Then I have two days of work in Leeds, England on Tuesday and Wednesday. So when I’m not pent up in an office [...]
- I know what you’re thinking…
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November 10th, 2007
I know this looks pretty sad… don’t worry though, I’m OK. Malnourished, but OK.
- Upcoming Travel Dates
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October 30th, 2007
I just added a calendar showing some of my confirmed travel dates. Check out the right side of this page.
- A Night In Paris
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October 30th, 2007
No, I’m not talking about the bootleg film… I’m talking about the second half of this week (and actually it’s two nights). That’s right, I’m heading to Paris tomorrow night. It’s a Belgian holiday here on Thursday so I’m taking the opportunity to travel.
I’m pretty bad, in general, about planning my trips in [...]
- Laundry Day
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October 28th, 2007
- I’m still alive
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October 21st, 2007
More posts, more frequently now – I promise. I now have Internet at home, so I have no excuse.
Since I last wrote, a lot has happened here. I moved into a new apartment and out of the hotel. All of my clothes are permanently suitcase-creased, but it was worth the wait. [...]
- A Post — Just for You
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October 3rd, 2007
Don’t you love checking websites daily when they only get updated every other week?? I know I do.
Seriously though, sorry for the delay between posts. I originally wanted to wait until I had good news about my apartment search here in Brussels… and I’ve had two weeks of bad news…UNTIL TODAY! I’m [...]
- Where I Want to Visit
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September 23rd, 2007
Here is my initial brain-storm of places I’d like to visit while I’m here for the next 5 and a half months. Obviously, I may have to strike some from the list if time isn’t permitting. What am I forgetting? Let’s talk about it in the comments section.
Paris
London
Budapest
Munich
Madrid
Copenhagen
Switzerland
French Alps
Greece
Cannes
Amsterdam
Brugge
Antwerp
Prague
Barcelona
- Google Translator
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September 22nd, 2007
I’ve been using the Google Translator this morning, and I am extremely impressed. It let’s you plug in statements in English, and it spits back the translation in almost any language you would want. But even more useful is the ability to translate entire websites. For example, today I’m looking for sport leagues/clubs to join [...]
- Apartment Searching…
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September 22nd, 2007
Over the last couple days I’ve been working with a relocation company to find an apartment for my stay in Brussels (I’m still in the tragically located hotel). I think I’m close to securing the the one place that really interested me out of the 8 that I saw. It’s in the Sablon area of [...]
- Brussels Days 1 and 2
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September 16th, 2007
I finally made it to Brussels, Belgium yesterday morning at 8 AM. It seems like a long time coming since I knew I was going to be moving here (look for a future post regarding that whole process – and why it took so long).
Day 1
The first day was pretty uneventful really. I made [...]
- New Blog Name?
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September 10th, 2007
I’ve decided that I want to choose a new name for this blog, so that I can reserve blakesamic.com for something a little more professional. I’m having trouble thinking of a name, so I’m looking for your help! If you can think of something good, just respond with a comment on this post.
This blog will [...]
- Beijing Time
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August 29th, 2007
I just got back from Beijing a few days ago — very cool trip. It all started when we met up with our tour guide Ricky on Saturday morning:
Ricky was a cool guy, and answered most of our questions. He definitely learned as much about the U.S. as we did about Beijing though. [...]
- Off to Beijing
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August 24th, 2007
We’re about to hop on a plane tonight and head to Beijing for the weekend. Hopefully I’ll get some awesome pics of The Great Wall, etc.
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- Chinese Knock-off Markets
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August 22nd, 2007
Last week we decided to hop in a van and take a trip over to some Chinese markets. Within 2 minutes of hopping out of the van we had 3 or 4 new “best friends” that wanted to show us the best shops. Some of them even had catalogs for us to flip [...]
- Chinese Exercise
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August 20th, 2007
The playgrounds here have some interesting equipment. This lady for example uses something that resembles the Gazelle in America.
- A Chinese Beer Truck
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August 20th, 2007
- Photo of Pudong from “The Bund” at Night
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August 19th, 2007
I walked down to “The Bund” tonight and snapped this photo of Pudong from across the Huangpu river
- Senior Bootcamp Week One Comes to an End
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August 19th, 2007
As you may know, the real reason I’m here in Shanghai is for work. I’m here for three weeks of training actually. Our first week of class is over and it went pretty well. Here’s a photo of my awesome team burning the midnight oil before our final project presentation on Friday:
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- Excuses, Excuses, Excuses
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August 19th, 2007
So if you’re one of the 4 readers of this blog, you probably noticed that haven’t posted in a while. These are some excuses:
Internet in my hotel room isn’t free (and I’m too lazy to walk down to the 4th floor where it is free)
We’re in class on computers all day – and I don’t [...]
- Coolio Comes Out of Hiding
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August 19th, 2007
Coolio resurfaced last night in Shanghai at a club called BonBon. The Grammy award winning rapper that brought us such favorites as “Fantastic Voyage” and “Gangster’s Paradise” captivated a crowd of Shanghainese and expats with such phrases as:
“I’m 44, but this ain’t your daddy’s stomach” (while lifting shirt to show abs)
“If I was your [...]
- View from Bar Rouge
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August 16th, 2007
- An Evening at the Ice Bar
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August 15th, 2007
A couple nights ago a bunch of us went to the Shanghai Ice Bar. This place was a complete novelty (we were the only people there, and I’m sure the locals laugh at it). Basically you get a huge parka, with gloves attached, when you walk in, and everything in the bar is [...]
- Lots of Overcast Days
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August 14th, 2007
The weather in Shanghai has been pretty bad for the most part so far. Everyday but one has been overcast and extremely humid. It looks like Saturday should be pretty nice, though, which is good because we’ll be touring the city all day.
- Electrical Catastrophe Causes Room Upgrade
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August 14th, 2007
You would think that the Circuits classes I took in college would have resulted in a little real world electrical knowledge – but you would be wrong.
The first night here I asked the front desk for a power transformer (to account for the difference between American AC and Chinese AC), and they gave me [...]
- 3 Weeks in Shanghai
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August 13th, 2007
I’m in Shanghai, China now, and I will be for the next 3 weeks. Already, the experience has been unbelievable. I’ve done more traveling than most, including a couple trips to Europe — but I’ve never felt so completely foreign (or tall).
(flying over Alaska)
The flight over from Chicago (direct to Shanghai) took about [...]
