ugh

12.5 hours is a stupid time difference. wtf is up with the .5?

Long distance love in the age of blogging

My best friend is in Bangalore or BLR as he's been writing it lately. It's been less than a week and we've been talking a bunch - sometimes more than we do when we're in the same city.

The technology has drastically changed since my college boyfriend moved to Japan just under a decade ago. Back in the old days, int'l phone calls were very expensive. Skype didn't exist and eyeball cams were really rare, let alone built-in cameras like the ones on the Macs. I've been using my computer to broadcast the living room via Skype and Y! messenger. I saw the inside of the Singapore airport from Ash's computer. I showed off my new haircut today using Skype.

The world is getting smaller and smaller.

From the "Why is this News?" file

CNET has an article up this morning about a former MSFT employee's blog post stating that he's considering the switch to LinuxMCE to avoid DRM issues with Windows Media Player.

Why is this news?

If I write a blog post saying that I'm considering eating an apple for breakfast instead of my usual banana, will CNET cover that?

Sometimes the right-click journalism thing goes a little too far. For this hard-hitting investigative bit of reporting, the journalist read a blog post and then wrote a story that recapped the blog post. That's metablogging. That's not reporting. Just wanted to clarify.

Geeky girlz

So, a few months ago I found out about a cool conference going on right here in Mountain View, CA - really close to the Mozilla offices. It's called She's Geeky: A Women's Tech (un)conference.

I've been working at Mozilla for almost 6 months now. I often get asked about what it's like to be a woman in a largely male office. It's actually quite funny. I started my career working in the IT department, wearing jeans to work and crawling under desks to sort out cables. Then I started working in a PR firm and started wearing skirts and suits and calling the IT guy whenever things broke. Now I wear jeans, crawl under my desk and still manage to bug the IT guy a fair amount.

Anyway, I think this should be an interesting event and look forward to connecting with other women in open source.

She's Geeky: A Women's Tech (un)Conference
October 22-23 in Mountain View, CA
http://www.shesgeeky.org

Happy birthday to my blog

It's been a year since I started this blog. Today, I officially got syndicated via planet.mozilla.org. I've been using this blog largely for personal musings so when I decided to start blogging for work, I wondered if I should start an entirely new blog. I decided not to. So now, presumably, there are people beyond my friends and family who are checking out my blog.

Hello world.

MSFT PR uses Firefox

My PR team sent me this article today.

Interestingly enough, there are several shortcuts available for PR professionals using Firefox (both built-in and via add-ons). For PR pro's using Firefox as your primary browser, which features and/or add-ons are you using on a regular basis?

belated blogging

haven't been in one place for long enough to blog in some time. figured i better get something up before my blog dies from lack of content oxygen. it's been quite a few weeks.

travel went something like sf>portugal>spain>france>uk>oregon>nevada>sf. i have some blog notes from my europe trip that i never managed to post while i was traveling. i'll try to get caught up soon.

it's good to be home. really good. sf is such a nice place to call home. of the places i traveled over the past few weeks, there isn't one that compares to san francisco.

there's no place like home...