Over the past 7 years, my website has undergone several revisions and expanded in content, mostly photos, as I progressed through the journey of life.
Lately, I’ve realized that my website was quite outdated in this era of Web 2.0 and trying to update HTML source code and loading updates manually was quite a thing of [...]
Sep 212009
Sep 202009
Slowly but surely, I’m restoring my numerous posts dating back from college. Over the years, as sites have changed and things have moved, I’ve found that numerous links have broken with images no longer showing, etc.
Hoping that by putting everything into WordPress where files are linked to posts and cross-referenced automatically… that future “fixes” will [...]
Sep 182009
Tim Wylie is my hero!
http://www.timwylie.com/
He helped get all of my Xanga posts from both accounts imported to here!
Now… the long process of restoring lost files/links from the last transition…
Yikes!
May 302009
May 25 – 29
After spending the first two days on Easter Island exploring the various sights, we began the first of three weeks that we would be working on understanding the feasibility of local pineapple production.
Our time is spent mostly between two locations: [...]
May 252009
May 23 – 24
On Saturday, May 23rd, we awoke while it was still pitch black to get to the airport to catch our 8AM flight to Easter Island. (Apparently, Easter Island is treated like an international flight and we needed to check luggage so we arrived at the airport two hours before our [...]
May 232009
May 20 – 22
On Tuesday, May 19th, our team of 4 Haas students departed from San Francisco enroute to Easter Island to conduct a study on the marketability of pineapples for the mainland Chilean market. After 17 hours of travel and a delayed layover in Dallas (due to aircraft mechanical problems), we arrived [...]
Jun 302008
Having been on the road for over five weeks and finally on the home stretch across eastern Europe before our final flights home (to LAX via JFK) across the Atlantic and the continental United States, our three days in Prague were spent recovering from the mad dash around our last few destinations! =)
After [...]
Jun 272008
After two sleepless nights (the first spent on a bus up to Mount Sinai and the second in the Cairo airport), we arrived in London in the early afternoon to visit the sites in and around the tenth stop on our round-the-world adventure. =)
Our arrival in London signified a few things. First, we [...]
Jun 252008
After too many days of nonstop sightseeing and visiting numerous UNESCO World Heritage sites, we were looking forward to three days of recovery while diving the Red Sea and relaxing at the Marriott Beach Resort in Sharm El Sheikh, the ninth stop on our world tour…
Turns out… Sharm El Sheikh is located on [...]
Jun 212008
The eighth stop on our 40 day journey around the globe brought us to one of the world’s most famous and historical sites… the ancient city of Cairo… but more importantly, to the only remaining member of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World!
During our short time in Cairo, we marveled at the [...]