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Ways to Start a Biography
Monday, January 31st, 2005
Whilst filling out an application for college scholarships, one of the questions was to give a brief biographical description of yourself (300 words or less). “Not too shabby, I can talk about all of the different countries I’ve lived in,” I thought. But how to start it…
You just know that every applicant in the [...]
Bloggie Finalists for 2005
Monday, January 24th, 2005
As you know, I was a Bloggie Awards Panelist for 2005, and after spending a few hours a day for a 3 days, I was able to finally come up with my five votes in each of the ten assigned categories. As a result of my labors, here are my nominations for 2005:
Bloggies: Asian
http://noodlepie.typepad.com/
http://popagandhi.com/
http://glutter.typepad.com/
http://tokyotimes.org/
http://blog.codefront.net/
European
http://elastico.net/
http://viewropa.com/
http://www.binarybonsai.com/
http://www.petiteanglaise.com/
American:
http://photomatt.net/
http://kottke.org/
http://atrios.blogspot.com/
http://chicagoist.com/
http://justwatchthesky.com/
Photography:
http://sh1ft.org/shutterbug
http://overshadowed.com/
http://sensitivelight.com/
http://adampolselli.com/
http://snowsuit.net/
Food:
http://tastingmenu.com/
http://theredkitchen.net/
http://chezpim.typepad.com/
http://becksposhnosh.blogspot.com/
http://101cookbooks.com/
http://thefoodsection.com/
Politics:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog
http://powerlineblog.com/
http://andrewsullivan.com/
http://watchblog.com/
http://washingtonmonthly.com/
Computers or [...]
The Romantic Adventurer in Me
Monday, January 24th, 2005
I am a few months away from graduating from high school, breaking out on my own, and starting to form my life as I begin college. Not many months after I start college, I will go to somewhere that I most likely have never been before to spend two years with people I have never [...]
Category General | Tags: adventures, dreams,
I’m a Criminal
Friday, January 21st, 2005
Our school, being the controlling body that it is, feels the need to notify parents of a student’s absence, no matter what the class or how many times. A kind automated message is sent home so that your parents can take the appropriate grounding action. In my case, yesterday I picked up the phone to [...]
I’m a Bloggie Panelist
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
What a surprise! I have been selected as one of the 150 panelists that will decide the Weblog Awards for 2004! What a (random) honor! Not only do I get to feel important, but I also get to discover tons of new blogs that I have never seen before, at a time in which that [...]
Indian Ocean Tsunami Imagery – Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia
Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
Pictures and video clips on the news give you an up-close view of the destruction caused by these terrible tsunamis, but for a much larger view on the amount change and destruction these catastrophies have caused, the following satellite images are simply the most revealing.
Indian Ocean Tsunami Imagery – Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia