The New Media Diva

Month: September, 2009

Swisscom: You need to check yourself

Dear Swisscom, I’ve just spent close to an hour waiting at the your store at Bahnhofplatz 12 (I believe) to pick up my iPhone only to be told that I’d had three days to pick it up from the time you called me. The phone had been given to someone else. Apparently, you tried to [...]

Back from travelling La Via del Profumo

I’ve just returned from AbdesSalam Attar’s natural perfumery course in Italy. I’ve found my calling. I’m turning in my resignation at the shop Monday. Boss, I’m joking.:-) The session was held at the beautiful Il Germano Reale, which is ringed by a botanical festival: cypress trees, lavender and rosemary bushes. Salam even snagged a peach [...]

My first and last word about the Kanye episode

I posted this on Facebook in reply to a post that the entire MTV VMA event was staged: “At first I thought it was staged. Then I thought, ‘What’s so hard to believe that that dude is just a straight up a$$hole?’ We (black folks) need to get out of the habit of always thinking [...]