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From the monthly archives:
Keeping data safe and organized while on the road is a big part of my job. Failing to retrieve a file often means redoing/recoding it, or worse, getting guilt-tripped or going unpaid by a client.
With my laptop being powered-on and plugged into outlets in a different countries almost monthly, how can I possibly be sure [...]
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When I told the girl I met on the bus that I had lost my notebook, she gasped “Oh NO!”. I was confused.
“How much was it!?” she exclaimed with the typical “glad it wasn’t me” look most strangers give others when they hear of such things.
“Um…about 12 bucks…”
Suddenly the look of realization is visible in [...]
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Alright so I’m officially 28 minutes late with this Photo of the Week (here in LA it just turned monday which means I missed the usual Sunday posting). I pray you guys forgive me and pretend it is Sunday anyways.
I’ll make sure to be on time next week.
Child playing and laughing uncontrollably in the fountain [...]
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At a Starbucks on the corner of Hollywood and Western in Los Angeles, a blogger sits cheerfully, tapping at a keyboard. An empty cup of Starbucks Blended Lemonade sits next to him, as it has for the past three hours.
This empty cup is his ticket stub, his proof-of-entitlement to use the oh-so familiar Starbucks facilities [...]
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This review is sponsored by Ryan of 14Giants.com – a site of mass-distraction. This site is digital backpacker certified as a great time-waster for random readings throughout the week. He even recently did a feature on me!
“The COOLEST MUSEUM in San Diego!” I was touting, loudly, matter-of-factly around the hostel.
I had just returned from a [...]
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The crowds, the gridlock, the miles of wannabes and wouldbes and arebes. A city who’s portrait is unanimously painted as a “golden city” littered with self-proclaimed glamor and powder-covered skin: Los Angeles and Hollywood are interchangeable in the minds of the media and its followers.
The question du jour: Does the city live up to its [...]
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Yellow mercedes crashes into cement bridge-support wall at Hill and 2nd St. intersection just minutes before video was taken. Video footage recorded by The Digital Backpacker at 3:52pm today.Though the frontend of the mercedes was impounded by the cement structure, the driver was unharmed.
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At 10:42am yesterday morning, an eruption of excitement came to me in my seat on the Surfline Amtrak heading to Los Angeles. Needing an outlet for the moment’s energy, I began writing this post:
Excuse me!? Nobody told me the Amtrak has 120 volt electrical outlets for every seat! This is nuts! I’m in travel writer [...]
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After racing down to the Del Mar Fare Grounds early yesterday morning, only to discover we had chosen one of the two days out of the month in which it closes to the public, we decided a decent and non-disappointing alternative would be the Birch Aquarium at Scripps University.
What comes to mind when attempting an [...]
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