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A ROFLcon, I has it. Day two liveblogging, updates

Saturday, April 26th, 2008 Tags: , , , , , , , ,

A ROFLcon, I has it. Day two liveblogging, updates

Day two at ROFLcon!

As with yesterday, newest posts are at the top.

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ROFLCon–you can has. Day one liveblogging, updates

Friday, April 25th, 2008 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

ROFLCon–you can has. Day one liveblogging, updates

I’m heading over to ROFLcon in Cambridge now — bringing my laptop and camera, of course! Check back here for entries and pics throughout the day.

New entries will appear at the top of the page with events in reverse chronological order.

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My name is “file photo”?

Friday, March 21st, 2008 Tags: , , , ,

My name is “file photo”?

[edit2] Final update: All’s well that ends well I guess—after posting some messages on UniversalHub, I got an email from the Globe that something got mixed up in the back-end, and they apologized for the error. That’s a very fast response, I have to say! Really appreciate all the help and feedback I got on this.

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The internets! It knows me!

Monday, June 11th, 2007 Tags: , , ,

The internets! It knows me!

The flickr greeting I received today was both unintentionally quite funny and a bit unnerving at the same time:

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Reaction #1 (too-cool-for-this neo-geek-hipster wanna-be snark): O RLY?

Reaction #2 (cripplingly self-conscious): is my greek so bad that flickr assumes i don’t even know how to say hello?

Reaction I should have had: How many Greeks wrote emails to flickr to get “yasou” on the international greetings banner? And how long will it take for a counter-reaction of Turks to mobilize and demand “merhaba”? ;)