Yesterday’s post was about Sayulita, Mexico, where it’s balmy, dusty, hot and there is no snow. This week made me realize that despite my fantasies about spending some time in that beach town, for now I’m definitely in New England and it’s January. First, I walloped a stop sign while […]
Kent passed along a book to me last month that I’ve been thoroughly enjoying. He reads so many books and it’s a pleasure to get a crack at them when he’s finished. Today was a sick day, so I had time to enjoy Gringos in Paradise, a new book by […]
I remember when I was a kid growing up in New Jersey, there was a family that had a little cage that their sons played in. It was a cage, not for them to live in, but to play in, but nonetheless, many neighbors talked about this with horror. I […]
Walter S. Mossberg can kill or redeem any electronics product just by a bad or good mention in his personal technology column in the WSJ. I cracked up when I read his review of the new Voyager phone from Verizon, which he wasn’t impressed with. “In fact the Voyager, bafflingly, […]
If you know anyone who is rich, they can’t hold a candle to John Paulson. This hedge fund operator made an estimated $3 to $4 billion for himself in 2007. He did it by betting against the sub-prime loan market, and he hit the jackpot. In today’s WSJ, Gregory Zuckerman […]
Sometimes people comment to me on how much I like reading. I read the entire Wall St. Journal, much to my daughter’s surprise.”You’re always reading, Dad,” she told me, as I finished up the last section. Sometimes my family gets mad at me and says I’m ignoring them (the NJ […]
Yesterday as I was helping Cindy move her office I had time to peruse a copy of National Geographic. There I found a story about a favorite topic: Pirates. In the long story, Peter Gwin meets up with an Indonesian pirate who is held in a Malaysian jail, after a […]
Here is our newest acquisition…a cool tradeshow booth that fits into the little stand shown in front, that we’ll use at the Javits Center for the NY Times Travel Show. No more borrowing booths, no more fussing over hard to assemble old outdated equipment. It took my friend Dave and […]
I read today as I sat in the cafe looking at the rain about a very sad restauranteur. Sad because business at her Chinese restaurant is down more than 70%. The photo in today’s Daily Hampshire Gazette showed Rachel Wang setting a table for lunch in a forelorn and empty […]
Now the big PR blitz begins…I mailed out press releases to local newspapers here trumpeting our first appearance as exhibitors at the New York Times Travel Show. Hopefully this will be newsworthy to our local papers and we’ll see some coverage. In the release I detail my plans to present […]
I got a task done today that has been on my mind for weeks. Boy it was good to hit send, and give Jeremy all of the info he needs about my Search Engine Optimizing workshop at the Boston Globe Travel Show on February 22. I’ll have to get an […]
I’ve had Tony Wheeler’s new book “Bad Lands,” by my bedside table, I read the section on his trip to Libya. In the book the author visits as many vilified places as he can, including North Korea, Albania, Iraq and Iran among others. A few stories Wheeler relates that he […]