Welcome to the life and times of Sooz where I've been documenting my work and life adventures since 2002. Work = Sooz Media, my consulting business for web marketing, website project management, event planning and event photography. Life = shooting concert videos + photography, cooking for friends at The Granitorium, and scheming with my favorite Boston bands.
Monthly archive May, 2005

How to Send Email on Another Network Using mail.app

Here's a screenshot (click the image for a larger image in a popup) for Steve Garfield who was curious about how to send email from his Mac's mail.app program when he's away from his home or work network. It came up when we were talking at the Museum of Science earlier today after the ......

Weblog Entries + Flickr Photos + del.icio.us Bookmarks

If you read sooz.com via an RSS newsreader I recommend updating to my FeedBurner powered feed so that you also receive alerts to new flickr photos and del.icio.us bookmarks. The RSS feed that Movable Type outputs still works but you won't see the alerts about new photos and links.

Boston Wi-Fi Summit at the Museum of Science on May 19th

On May 19th the City of Boston is hosting the Boston Wi-Fi Summit, beginning with remarks from Mayor Menino and culminating in two panel discussions on the ways that the city, businesses, local institutions, and community groups can help to bring high-speed Internet to people throughout the city. They've sent out an open invitation to...

Eugene Mirman and the Anti-Gay Phone Company

Eugene Mirman is a funny guy. Here's further proof. You have to listen to the "Anti Gay Phone Call I" and "Anti Gay Phone Call II" MP3s. The story: I received several telemarketing calls from a phone company that wanted me to switch to them. That's not weird. What is? The reason to switch. They...

Famous People on Flickr

paparazzi Originally uploaded by Rosie O'Donnell. I've been having an oddly fun time seeing Rosie O'Donnell's camera phone photos appear on my flickr contacts page. It's an interesting glimpse into a famous person's world. For example, this is a photo she took of photographers taking photos of her. Rosie (are we on a ...

Event Me

A friend of a friend just got a job working for Event Me in New York City. For event attendees: Event Me's free service informs more than 34,000 subscribers about unique professional, cultural, and fun events in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Portland, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Washington,...

Common Sense Networking? Organic Networking? Everyone Has The Capacity To Be Interesting Networking?

Earlier this week Shimon Rura and I hosted the second Genius Workshop dinner along with about 30 people who joined us. The idea is to bring tech innovators, creators and thinkers together in a room for dinner to conspire about individual projects and enjoy a good meal. Two people mentioned that we should ...

The Internet IS Fun

It's amazing what you can do with technology these days. Michael shares an example over on BunkoSquad.com.

Have I Mentioned Lately Just How Much Flickr Rocks?

I was lamenting to a human at flickr earlier tonight that the Magpie RSS thingie plus a flickr group's RSS feed is great but the size is a bit too large at 240 pixels wide. Good news! Flickr recently added a new badge-making tool that will let you create a badge that is one ......