I am still amazed I actually did it. I crossed over after twenty-five or more years of using a PC and bought a MacBook. I don’t expect to become one of those Apple fanatics who vociferously defend anything the company makes, but I gotta admit my experience with my iPhone […]
At three am, I tossed in my bed, almost knocking Mamacat off her perch nestled there at my feet. I have had this date seared into my mind for months; now it’s time to drive to Boston and speak to a crowd. I toss and turn worrying about what I’m […]
How important is a soup can label? Important enough that Campbell’s soup spent two years studying the ‘neuromarketing’ of how people decide to buy soup. A story in yesterday’s WSJ by Ilan Brat dove into the details of how to tweak a label to nudge up sales. Illustrations showed the […]
Phew! I am sitting at the end of the day in the window of the cafe. A familiar spot. My cafe acquaintance Paul told me some of what he knows about the Holyoke High Performance Computing Center that’s coming soon. He said in his government office they use water that […]
I love to make predictions. I have been reading about a new website that is becoming very popular on college campuses. Some have even wrote that this new idea will someday eclipse the gargantuan that is Facebook. It’s so simple, it’s hard to believe that nobody has thought of it […]
For our Valentine’s day afternoon, a workout at the Y and a movie were in order. I was feeling a bit under the weather as a result of something I ate on Saturday in Mexico, so we lay low and enjoyed an inside day, with the exception of the Y. […]
I dined last night at a table full of journalists, in an exciting city, with plenty of wine and unusual food–the kind of setting that I yearn for. The reach of the conversation was fascinating; the topic was mainly this fabulous country–Mexico. I’ve learned over the years to cherish these […]
However short this trip is, it was fine with me to spend the day looking out at the Gulf of Mexico from my seventh floor perch here at the NH Hoteles. When I checked in, they strapped a wristband on me that’s provided me with Coronas and food for the […]
I sat at the breakfast table with a view of the azure sea, and right beside me sat a man facing a portly couple, both looking at a form he wanted them to fill out. What else was he doing but selling a timeshare, the leading business of this, the […]
Does anyone care that Myspace, the once-high flying website purchased by News Corp more than four years ago, is just about dead? The moribund social networking site was once the hottest place on the web, now it’s just a bunch of ads and no one really cares about it. Think […]
The snow I eluded as I sped east late last night finally caught up with us here in Deerfield, with flakes coming down and the cafe full of people enjoying the atmosphere and sipping coffee. I was thrilled to be told this morning about Phoebe Mitchell’s inclusion of some of […]
It’s very late, but this massive caffeine buzz isn’t close to going away. I just escaped a terrible snowstorm by driving fast, eastward, as the storm followed dumping massive snowfalls just behind me. I’m glad I made the trip, considering that I would have been stuck in New York state […]