February 2009 Archives

Investing In Yourself

By Ophelia Chong
February 23, 2009



Art Center College of Design's Summit: Expanding the Vision of Sustainable Mobility was a three day conference that brought together industries and organizations that looked to a sustainable future.

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Paths Crossed and Uncrossed

By Ophelia Chong
February 15, 2009



I work virtually, I communicate with my clients via email, IM and occasionally on the phone. I do meet them from time to time, but mostly I am just a Ping in their email inbox.

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"Them"

By Ophelia Chong
February 14, 2009



I am bringing back the word "dander", because the only way I can explain the way I felt on Thursday was that my "dander" was all up and standing on end.

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The Neighbor in the Elevator

By Ophelia Chong
February 13, 2009



I live up in the Oaks neighborhood of Los Feliz, and on my daily walks with my three dogs, I will cross the paths of neighbors and we will chat about the missing mailbox, noisy construction, the economy - just about anything that you can fit into 2 minute snippets while the dogs pull on the leashes, noses pointing down the hill.

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Giving Back

By Ophelia Chong
February 9, 2009



Most news aggregators harvest the internet for topics you are interested in, and most of the time it's the same topic covered in ten different ways or just regurgitated from the original source with a new introduction. What I have found lacking is a source for charitable, ecological and social causes until now, because there is Giveback.net and they are working to fill that void online.

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Thursdays are worse than Mondays

By Ophelia Chong
February 5, 2009



Just when you thought it was safe to go out and get cigarettes, the Los Angeles Times now has the Homicide Map online for your viewing, and Thursdays is the chart topper as the day with the most homicides in Los Angeles.

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SoCal Connected

About 404 City

Los Angeles is the ultimate networked metropolis, and in 404 City blogger Ophelia Chong takes a look at our diverse web of communities, all of them interwoven by freeways, shared history, media, automobiles, and the ever present digital penumbra of cell-phones and computers.

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