I can admit that ignored what an OpenID is mostly until last week.
Yeah, I suppose that’s embarrassing for a man of my enormous stature. …Right.
Well, if you don’t have one or just might like to know what gives about the vague-sounding device, let me give you a quick tour.
On the Creative page of this site, I have posted a handful of travel essays I wrote for WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com, while podcasting and blogging in Europe.
They are not professional clips, but if you didn’t get a chance to read them this fall on WDSTL, see them here. Direct links below.
I am sitting in the Frankford Library, stealing wireless Internet by using a fake library card ID number I schmoozed out of a kind librarian.
Philadelphia, you have just earned yourself one more unemployed resident.
Continue reading New home, no Internet: My world in turmoil, give me a moment
Hire Christopher Wink, a journalist and writer in Philadelphia. See my resume here, and my portfolio here.
Last month I posted about my fulfilling internship with the Philadelphia Business Journal from the spring. Then I offered advice about attracting attention to your press releases.
I got some great clips there and learned more about newsroom dynamics, but I also got a taste of nine to five life. Business reporting didn’t get me out of the office much, and most often I was pouring over hundreds of those press releases and choosing one each week to profile.
I remember thinking then and came about it again. Is my life worth profiling, chosen by some idiot 22-year-old intern?
I’m scared of the answer.
Photo from UtahWebServices.
Have you seen WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com, the site on which my European backpacking trip with a friend is being chronicled? Check it out here.
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ChristopherWink.com was always meant to be my professional Web site, where I blogged about the interests and experiences that involve being a young journalist today. I decided I needed a place to display my more personal experiences, particularly pursuing My Life To Do List. I am announcing the soft launch of that site today.
When I was 13, I sat down in my bedroom of my parents’ home in rural northwest New Jersey and I composed a list of 26 things I had to do before I died.
From time to time, I have updated it, so that the list, now in the form of an Excel spreadsheet, is a more than 300-item syllabus for my life. It still governs the choices I make and experiences I want to have. It’s where my money goes and dreams lead.
Continue reading My Life To-do List: A Web site to chronicle my obsession
Backpacking Europe and podcasting at WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com. But, keep checking ChristopherWink.com for regular posts and professional updates.
Join me in reviewing food. As of Aug. 28, I am on the popular Yelp.
Thus far I have only reviewed three places in Harrisburg, but hope to get into the habit of doing so for all restaurants. Join and let’s share places we like and those we don’t. It’s a great tool to find the best places in the best locations anywhere, particularly because the site is known for its fine community.
I have been traveling since Monday, I should be at my destination, White River, S.D. sometime this afternoon.
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