{"id":993,"date":"2007-03-26T13:27:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T21:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/26\/back-in-the-u-s-a\/"},"modified":"2007-03-26T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T21:27:29","slug":"back-in-the-u-s-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/back-in-the-u-s-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the U.S.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 15 hours of agony on the American Airlines flights back from Buenos Aires, I am back in L.A., and working hard already on trying to arrange for the next big international webmedia trip &#8211; this one to Moscow. The forms that the Russian Consulate requires travelers to fill out to get a visa are absolutely amazing in the amount of detail that they demand.&nbsp; It&#8217;s worse than filling out a job application &#8211; at least there, you don&#8217;t have to mail them your passport, and hope to Christ that they send it back to you before your flight takes off&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I have tons of postings and photos that I have to put up in this space, along with links to pages that I&#8217;m putting up at the main Hard News site &#8211; my PowerPoint presentation is already up there at www.hardnewsinc.com\/chile if you want to take a look at it.&nbsp; I will also be posting my list of sites that I think are interesting, and the reasons I think so, along with a list of all the tech toys that I use\/recommend. <\/p>\n<p>Tops on my list of new fave technologies has to be Skype. Folks, Skype saved my ass.&nbsp; Free calls of whatever length to anyone else with a Skype account?&nbsp; Man, you just can&#8217;t beat it. If you haven&#8217;t gotten a Skype account yet, go to www.skype.com and sign up. <\/p>\n<p>Me? I gotta go back to applying for travel health insurance (apparently, the Rooskies won&#8217;t let you in the country unless you have some sort of health policy). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 15 hours of agony on the American Airlines flights back from Buenos Aires, I am back in L.A., and working hard already on trying to arrange for the next big international webmedia trip &#8211; this one to Moscow. The forms that the Russian Consulate requires travelers to fill out to get a visa are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[363,847,352,105,370,354],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-current-affairs","tag-journalism","tag-online-multimedia","tag-travel","tag-webtech","tag-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}