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Livy Reading Spanish Newspaper

Livy Reading Spanish Newspaper
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There were an unusual amount of Starbucks coffee shops in Seville. We stopped in one for latte de soja—soy lattes!

Google Terrain

Neat, I just came across this thread about the new Google Terrain feature on maps via Adam Rugel of 71miles fame.

Buy A Domain for Your Blog?

I just noticed this nifty little bit of e-commerce in my Blogger settings. Maybe it's been there a while and I didn't notice it.

Back to Europe

I'm speaking at Evento Blog España at the end of next week. I'm headed to Sevilla Spain via Oxford, England where I'll be participating in Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford. At Oxford, I'll be teaching a "Master Class" which is a fancy way of describing an informal talk—I hope! Things have been so busy at Twitter that I haven't had time to stop and think what I might talk about at these events. (Although I have a pretty good idea.)

The best part is that Livia will be joining me. We're heading out tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully we'll find time to explore a bit and enjoy Europe. When we went to Amsterdam in September, I was kept too busy and we only had one day to explore together and one really great dinner. Also, it was raining and Livy discovered a hole in the bottom of her shoe. But that won't happen this time. We've seen to it that new shoes were procured.

Rackspace Outage

Twitter / Chris Wetherell: 37signals, LaughingSquid, o...: "37signals, LaughingSquid, others down due to a transformer problem affecting a Rackspace datacenter"

But We Only Have One

[Politics of Health]: "According to the Ecological Footprint Campaign, if every one on the planet were to consume as many resources as the average citizen from the U.S., it would take 5 earths to sustain them."

San Francisco Bay Oil Spill and WIldlife

This Oil Spill is bad stuff, "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Friday for the San Francisco Bay Area as an oil spill continued to coat some of the state's most storied coastline and imperil marine wildlife."

The International Bird Rescue research Center is known worldwide in their field and they are based here in the Bay Area. Check out their blog for updates from the front lines regarding the effects of this disaster on wildlife.

Tracking 'Literally'

Check out this English language grammar blog tracking abuse of the word "literally." For example, this quote about Timmy the Energy Bear, "A brand new concept for the naturally healthy household,‘Timmy’ is a delightful cuddly, soft toy who is literally ‘alive’."

John's Unnatural Brilliance

John Hiler blogs about The Power of Delusional Thinking. I derive much of my genius from the same source that John's unnatural brilliance stems from.

Beer and Twitter

I found this craft brewery called flyingdog on Twitter while browsing Foamee. Neat!

Strike Blog!

United Hollywood: "This is an unofficial blog started by a group of strike captains. The contributors are both writers and non-writers."

IAC is Breaking Up into 5 Companies

Bloomberg.com: U.S.: "IAC/InterActiveCorp, whose shares have dropped 20 percent this year, will split into five publicly traded companies, dismantling a media and Internet conglomerate Barry Diller spent more than a decade assembling."

Mexico's Katrina

Mexicans Appalled by Scenes From Flooded State - New York Times: "President Felipe Calderón, who has visited Villahermosa twice this week, said that Mexico was facing one of the worst natural disasters in its recent history. But it was hard to gauge how widespread the damage was."

Vegan Society

Hey, it's 'World Vegan Day' today. Happy World Vegan Day to you and yours.