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10/27/07 I got a phone

I’m now communicated during my stay in the US, courtesy of Virgin Mobile (well, I did have to pay them…). Reach me at

(617) 304-5543

I also get Twitter direct messages there.

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10/27/07 Podcamp!!

Podcamp Boston 2 is underway!!

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10/23/07 Buses, planes and trains

Thursday at around 10:30 am the shuttle picks me up to take me to the airport. I’ll arrive there at 3pm, check in, and get on board by 6pm when my flight takes off. Friday at 8am (which would be 9am at home) is when the flight arrives in NY. I’ll get my bags and go straight to catch the first shuttle to Penn Station. Once there I’ll get on the first train to Boston. There’s one at 2pm but hopefully I’ll make it to an earlier one. I should be arriving in Boston around 6pm at the latest, 32 hours after leaving home. Then I have to go straight to the hotel, hop in the shower quickly and head down to the convention center for the Podcamp kick-off.

But you know what’s the worst? I actually like this shit…

Edit: I couldn’t make a train reservation because stupid Amtrak refused to take my card. I booked a flight instead. Not much more expensive, no dragging my bags through half of NY, free wi-fi at JFK courtesy of JetBlue and the total travel time goes down to a tad uder 30 hours. Not bad at all.

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10/22/07 I’m going to Podcamp!

Yes! Thanks to all the airmiles I racked up during the year I was able to find a flight to NY for a really low price. It had been a race between my decision to go and airfare. I decided to go, then the flights had gone up a bit, so I thought about it a bit more and decided it was still worh it, then the prices were even higher, and so on till it was just too expensive. But this sunday I found that tiny little link on the airline site. “Buy airmiles”. It had been hiding from me all this time, I swear. I clicked on it, entered the number of miles I needed and felt my eyes grow big as I saw the price. I can afford that!. In 12 hours I had all the arrangements made and the ticket bough.

This is going to rock so hard. See you at Podcamp Boston!

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10/04/07 Found

Cleaning old drawers can be an interesting experience. That’s what I did yesterday. Among the guzillion things I tossed out (I clearly have a problem with letting go…), I found the following:

• 4 US Dollars, 2 brazilian Reais and 25 Uruguayan pesos.
• Several old photos of me. Around 1999-2000 I was F*@%ING THIN!!
• A reciept for a Walkman I bought for my birthday in 2000. I paid $99 for it. The exchange rate then was $1 ARG = $1 USD. Now it’s $3.10 ARG = $1 USD.
• A reciept and some bills from my first cell phone (photo 1). I remember I had to carry two batteries if I wanted to keep it running for a whole day. Not that it mattered, no one ever called me anyway.
• A photo I took in photo school, with a pinhole camera I built out of a shoe box. I tossed out a whole bunch of photos from then, but I had to keep this one. (photo 2)
• Several 1.44″ disks. I own two computers (one of them 5 years old) and none of them has a 1.44″ drive.
• The user manual for Need For Speed 1. They recommended a 90MHz computer. The Mac Mini I got recently is 40 times faster than that.
• Two old pair of glasses. Including my first pair. Way way bigger and nerdier than I remembered (nope, no photos of this).
• Two letters from one of my friends from photo school. Reading them now it was pretty obvious she was into me. But of course, being the big dork I am I didn’t realize at the time. *facepalm*.
• A “Give me coffee and no one gets hurt!” sticker. Now on my laptop. (photo 3)

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10/02/07 Vote!

My friend Chris submitted an awesome shirt design to Threadless and it got accepted, so now he needs some votes to get it printed. You need to go vote for his design. It’s totally awesome and I totally want one.

And I know, I totally sound like a valley girl. What-ever…

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10/01/07 Do you know where your photos are?

I just came across this story about how Virgin Mobile Australia is using flickr photos on some of their ads, and how they are now facing a law suit. From the article:

On the billboard, Alison’s friend has vanished and so has the Adidas logo on her hat. Her image is accompanied by a mocking slogan — according to the ad, Alison is the kind of loser “pen friend” (pen pal) whom subscribers will finally be able to “dump” when they get a cellphone.

Someone saw this ad on the street, took a photo and uploaded it to flickr. As he points out, the ad rightfully credits the photographer with a link, as the Creative Common license requires, but the problem now is the agency would have also needed a model release.
(Well, turns out the photographer had a non-commercial license after all, but that’s another story)

But the law suit isn’t what caught my attention. It was the reaction of the photographer to this. While the model was obviously concerned about the use of her image in a demeaning way, the photographer asked:

“where was this? do you think virgin mobile will give me stuff?”

Give me a break. How about worrying how your stuff is being used instead of trying to get free stuff? And how about making sure you choose the right license type for your online content? All my online stuff is under a Creative Commons non-commercial non-deriv license. That means that, if you give me credit, you can use my images as long as it’s not for a commercial purpose, and you can’t modify them.

Are you sure you know where your photos are?

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