http://eloquence514.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ en Vox Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:00:40 -0500 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://eloquence514.vox.com/library/post/lastfm-addiction.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Eloquence) http://eloquence514.vox.com/library/post/lastfm-addiction.html?_c=feed-rss http://eloquence514.vox.com/library/post/lastfm-addiction.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:00:40 -0500 Testing to seeing if the Embedding from Last.FM works!! <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://eloquence514.vox.com/library/post/lastfm-addiction.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398c9168f00010110162edcdc860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> last.fm http://eloquence514.vox.com/library/post/my-time-in-berlin-germany-day-2.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Eloquence) http://eloquence514.vox.com/library/post/my-time-in-berlin-germany-day-2.html?_c=feed-rss http://eloquence514.vox.com/library/post/my-time-in-berlin-germany-day-2.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:00:34 -0400 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://eloquence514.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e398c9168f0001011017aa5f2b860e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00e398c9168f0001011017aa5f2b860e-50si" alt="Img_4804" /></a> <a href="http://eloquence514.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e398c9168f000101101669bad7860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00e398c9168f000101101669bad7860d-50si" alt="Img_4805" /></a> <a href="http://eloquence514.vox.com/library/photo/6a00e398c9168f0001011018096284860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00e398c9168f0001011018096284860f-50si" alt="Img_4807" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> So it's Day 2 and a much needed rest after the intense Swiss Finance Boot Camp as I like to call it. Both Aline and Ray went to work and called me to go out for lunch to the Turkish place where I had my first Flatbread dish. 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