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Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?

by sdulai on Sep 2, 2007 • No Comments

*Warning! Today’s post deals with some intense social issues and may not be suitable for anyone. If you’re hoping for the usual zany post on SLR today, I’m afraid this one isn’t it. It started out that way, but didn’t end up that way. I have hesitated publishing this for some time, afraid that my...

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All about my new home

by sdulai on Aug 31, 2007 • No Comments

Well I made it, I’m in New Mexico, day one of tomorrow and the next six months. Albuquerque reminds me a lot of a Reno and San Jose hybrid. It’s kind of in a valley like San Jose, well not really, it just looks like that at night when you’re seeing lights for the first...

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Blogopaloza, it’s del.icio.us!

by sdulai on Aug 30, 2007 • No Comments

This is my pledge to you, I will post something new everyday for the next two weeks. Why? I’m curious to see what happens. Also, late last year I finally added my del.icio.us feed to SLR, you can find it in the column on the right, just scroll down a bit. I’ve been posting a...

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I’m taking the left turn in Albuquerque

by sdulai on Aug 18, 2007 • No Comments

By the time many of you (hey, maybe both of you can compare notes!) read this I’ll be on my way to ABQ, New Mexico. I’ve not said much about it thus far on SLR, but back in June I was accepted for a six-month internship at the Albuquerque Journal and I start on Monday...

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Woo-hoo! SJSU is (back) in the house!

by sdulai on Aug 17, 2007 • No Comments

Just moments ago, SJSU PJ Department head Dr. D. Michael Cheers, and this summers fellow at National Geographic, sent me an e-mail that our project, formerly under wraps, had a new national backer. National Geographic. He asked me to pass the word, so, here we go: National Geographic has joined The San Jose Mercury News...

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Day one in New York City

by sdulai on Aug 8, 2007 • No Comments

On Tuesday I got into New York City, it’s my first time here and my first thought is, “wow, it’s hot here, I should have packed my T-shirts.” My next thought is, “wow, this place is amazing.” I can see why people love this place. I hopped on a bus and rode out to Harlem....

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A little house cleaning (e.g. shameless self promtion)

by sdulai on Jul 29, 2007 • No Comments

Well it seems after a flurry of activity on SLR I got a little too busy and haven’t been posting. Where was I? I said I’ve been busy (and I’m OK mom), really really busy. The past month I’ve started, stopped, continued and dropped about a half dozen projects and story ideas as I continue...

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A hard day’s iPhone

by sdulai on Jun 30, 2007 • No Comments

I think there’s some rule today that anyone with a blog has to write something about the iPhone. I think it’s the 28th Amendments: Congress shall make no law that allows for leniency on blogs that do not gush and exude fuel for the iPhone hype machine. (Our economy depends on your disposable income after...

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Sitting on the advice of giants… or knowledge bombs from people who are better than me

by sdulai on Jun 22, 2007 • No Comments

From time to time I get to talk to people who I genuinely admire and turn to for advice and debate the latest news with. Up till now, I’ve always said I’d post some of these talks to SLR, and they’ve always given me permission to, but I’ve just never gotten around to it. That...

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A serendipitous end at the Santa Cruz Sentinel

by sdulai on Jun 19, 2007 • No Comments

My time at the Santa Cruz Sentinel has come to an end, last Wednesday was my last. I worked Mondays, and it was kinda weird waking up and not having to drive for an hour over over the hill today. Everything has to come to an end sometime. For my last day there wasn’t much...

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I won…. a very honorable scholarship

by sdulai on Jun 10, 2007 • No Comments

Last Saturday the Peninsula Press Club held an awards banquet… they announced to those in attendance that I had been awarded this year’s Herb Caen Student Scholarship… named for the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist… whose style I am mimicking here… (poorly)… I was not able to attend but I heard it was quite a...

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Ever have that feeling…

by sdulai on Jun 10, 2007 • No Comments

Ever have that feeling that you just have to blog about something? I’m looking at SLR and thinking, man it’s been dry around here for a while, it’s about time I write about something. So you start thinking… gee, what to write about. Columnist can do it many times a week, why shouldn’t/can’t I? So...

Dear Me, how’s it going, call your mother more often #JCarn

Yup, once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn. The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their reflections on a given prompt. This month I had the opportunity to host and asked folks to write themselves a letter. As it’s the end of the year, it felt like the right time to look inward. Plus we spend so much time looking outside of ourselves at the industry/government/tech trends/government that self-reflection becomes that icky no-no that we seldom tackle. I know it’s scary, but come’on, let’s do this thing! Why? Because YOLO? “Write a letter to your younger self.” Dear Me, I’m writing to you from 2013, a little wiser, a little slower and probably still confused about why more people don’t do the right thing, but don’t let that stop you from trying. We’ve always been stubborn. I’m packing for a trip to India right now as I write this– don’t worry, you’re not married and yup, you’ll eventually leave California and actually get to fly in a plane– it’s been a wild couple of days. The last 10 or […]

Posted: December 20th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
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Write a letter to yourself! #JCarn Dec prompt

Howdy folks, After trading some e-mails with David for the great reboot of #JCarn– we were trading prompt ideas and well, I’ll be your host for December. Oh how rude of me, I’m being such a terrible host, let me take your coat, come on in, wipe your feet. As we race toward the end of 2013, it’s a natural time for reflection and in that spirit I think I’ve come up with what I hope will be an enjoyable and perhaps even cathartic prompt: “What would you write if you could send a letter to your fifteen-year-old self?” For December I would like you all to write a letter to your younger self. You can write about anything, no rules, no apologies. You may like to share with yourself advice, things to look out for, things you wished you did differently, regrets, hopes, what you’ve learned, about your life, choices… or just about anything that is on your mind. Ideally these are deeply personal to you and I hope it’ll be enlightening to others in its universality to the human condition. More often than not, if it’s important to you, it’s important to others. And who knows, maybe you’ll […]

Posted: November 11th, 2013 ˑ 7 Comments
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