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Italy in Pictures, Part II: Florence

jeff — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:05:40 +0000

I took a bunch of photos when I was traveling with Mogo Media in Italy at the end of 2009, and one set of photos is already online. Yes, I know it’s been a while waiting for the second batch of photos. Better late than never. This batch includes pics from Florence — both before and after the crazy once-in-a-generation snow storm that left us trapped in a Villa.

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Italy in Pictures, Part I: Venice

jeff — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:00:19 +0000

I spent a good chunk of December 2009 in Italy helping out Mogo Media’s Barry Anderson with a movie shoot. The trip had a whole film crew and actors hopping around norther Italy from Venice down to Florence and Sienna. Thankfully I had enough common sense to carry a camera with me the entire time, and it turns out quite a few people were interested in the shots I captured. Here’s some from the first week in Venice. Yes, I’ll post more as I get them sorted out.

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Hitting the Road: RSA and NAB 2009

jeff — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:24:55 +0000

Apparently I’m not satisfied with packing a single conference into a week because I’m about to head out to San Francisco for the RSA Conference 2009, and from there I go to Las Vegas for the 2009 National Association of Broadcasters conference. I’m especially looking forward to the RSA Conference because I’ll be speaking on a panel that’s discussing Mac security in the enterprise.

If you aren’t familiar with the RSA Conference, it’s an annual event for information and technology security. I’ll be speaking on the “Responding to the Ignored Threat – Macs in the Enterprise” panel with Jon Allen from Baylor University, Stan Gatewood from University Systems of Georgia, and John Dasher from PGP. That’s on Tuesday, April 21 at 1:30PM pacific time at the Moscone Center.

On Wednesday, I’ll be in Las Vegas for NAB, which is an insanely huge conference for the broadcasting world. There’s going to be tons of uber-cool stuff for me to check out, and yes, I’ll be reporting on what I find, so be sure to check out TMO for my event coverage.

Since I can’t seem to keep my big mouth shut, I’ll be tweeting about both events throughout the week, so you can follow along in real time. You know, I just love technology.

I’m Looking Down on You, But in a Good Way

jeff — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:23:27 +0000

I spent all of last week in Miami Beach at the MOGO media InDesign and Vector conference. It was great, or course, and it marked my first trip ever to Florida. Really. Had I not been such a mellon head on the flight down, I would have snagged some more pictures. You would be amazed at how well the iPhone camera does at 38,000 feet.

I talked about the whole on-the-way-to-Miami experience on my Jeff talks@TMO blog over at The Mac Observer, so I won’t go all re-run mode here. OK, maybe just a little.

One of the things that I absolutely love about flying is seeing places that I may very well have been and experienced, but from in the air instead of on the ground. The from-above perspective helps me stitch together in my head where things are in relation to each other in a better way than most maps because the view out of a plane window is always accurate, but maps are error prone. It’s also great for helping me work on my world domination strategy.

On this flight I saw several fires along what I’m sure was the Alabama and Florida coast lines. Most people on the plane never noticed them. Thanks to my trusty iPhone, however, I snapped a couple of shots.

If you didn’t catch where the fires are in this picture, try the one with the nice red circle.

First, I’m really happy with how well my iPhone picture through the crappy American Airline plane windows turned out. Second, I’m totally surprised that multiple fires big enough to be seen easily at 38,000 feet weren’t on the news.

I suppose I should have a point… OK, here’s one: Look out airplane windows. You never know what might be on fire down below you.

And another point: Keep your iPhone handy so you don’t forget to take pictures of the Mississippi river as you fly over it. Yeah, I know. Live and learn.