Duncan Ferguson has put up our giant outside signs and even painted the door. So we’re on our way…when we get our sinks installed and finish our painting, we’re ready to rock!

Christine O’Toole is a fine writer who traveled to Belfast with me in December. She sent me an essay by one of my favorite authors, Robert D. Kaplan, on travel writing vs. reporting, that ran in the Columbia Journalism review. Just listening to people, to their stories — rather than […]

Reading the February issue of Wired and came across this item in their “infoporn” section, by Joanna Perlstein. “It’s hard to find a silver lining in natural disasters. But the cataclysms of the past year or so–starting with the Asian Tsunami–have been a boon to online fundraising. Half of the […]

Om Malik wrote in Business 2.0 about the other “Next Big Thing,” next to Nicholas Negroponte’s famous $100 laptop. “Three floors up in one of the city’s numerous office towers, 38-year-old Rajesh Jain points to a table that holds, he’ll tell you repeatedly, personal computing’s next big thing. The silver-and-black […]

Carol E. Lee writes in last Sunday’s NY Times Style section about siblings who live together. “Matt and Frank Goldberg, 28-year-old twins, share many of the same friends, have dated in similar circles and moved in together three months ago. So far, life in their Upper East Side apartment is […]

I’ve just begun subscribing to the Daily Hampshire Gazette, and a few days ago read a story about a local woman who has moved way beyond her Easthampton birthplace. “In Easthampton, the name Kendra “Jade” Andrews elicits far-off looks and, sometimes, an “Oh yeah,” accompanied by a downward shake of […]

Simon Dumenco writes in Ad Age that the era of fashion magazine staffers using car services is coming to an end. Because glossy print ads will eventually succomb to the lure of the more interactive web. “But inevitably, fashion advertisers that prop up the glossies will, like everyone else, increasingly […]

Glimpses of Davos…from the NY Times blog about the World Economic Forum came this post by Mark Landler. “People flock to Google’s party here to gawk at Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founders, who now vie with Bill Gates for Davos celebrity status. But this isn’t just a Silicon […]

Reading today’s NY Times business section and found a piece by Richard Siklos about Terry Semel, the chairman of Yahoo. “Mr Semel’s first big decision–and probably his shrewdest–was to make advertising its mainstay business. At some of his earliest meetings at Yahoo, Mr Semel recalled, some executives were advocating that […]

I am traveling to the island of Cyprus at the end of February. The first thing I think of about Cyprus is that it is divided. Today I found out more details on why. In July 1974 a group of Cypriots who wanted the island to become part of Greece […]

Nikolay Valuev was crowned in December as Russia’s first World Boxing Assn. heavyweight champion. The LA Time’s Kim Murphy wrote about him today. “Valuev strode into the gym recently during his triumphant return to Russia after the title bout, in which he defeated American John Ruiz on a controversial decision […]

Troy McMullen writes in the Wall Street Journal today about the fade of the celebrity ranch, that’s put a whole slew of these large properties on the market. “A decade or so after big names in entertainment, sports and business turned the rugged ranch into a real-estate fashion statement, many […]