Last night we had take-out from Boston Market. We still call it Boston Chicken, my kids ask me why, I tell them that “back it the day,” it was called that. Television brought forth “Presidents,” a look back at the first few dudes who held the highest office, in the […]
Fast Company recently ran a profile of Jim Wier, the head of Snapper lawn mowers. It is a tale of wisdom and shows that in some cases saying no is the wiser choice. From The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman. “What struck Wier first, as he entered the Wal-Mart vice […]
This is either really big news, or another example of the Internet going too far. Stop and Shop supermarkets have announced that they will be installing Wi-Fi, (wireless internet) first in their Dorchester MA store and eventually throughout the 360 stores in the chain. I am having a hard time […]
An Excerpt from Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel: Bloggings’s Six Pillars: There are six key differences between blogging and any other communications channel. You can find any of them elsewhere. These are the Six Pillars of Blogging: 1.Publishable.Anyone can publish a blog.You can do it cheaply and […]
Luke Seeley, 22 months, has two Web sites of his own, including lukeseeley.com, a domain his father purchased soon after an ultrasound showed that his first child was a boy, four months before the baby was born. Sarah Kershaw writes in the NY Times Style section Sunday. “Carter and Luke […]
Kevin Sites goes to the world’s “Hot Zones,” and reports for Yahoo News. “In the unforgiving world of heroin addiction, 43-year-old Ali of Tehran, is a model of self-restraint. Anybody that is still alive after doing smack for 22 years — an endless cycle of searching, scoring, shooting — must […]
When I was in Chile, I heard and wrote about the candidate for president, Michelle Bachelet. Today Bloomberg has the story of her victory and new role as first woman preident of Chile. Bachelet will take office more than three decades after, as a 23-year-old medical student, she was arrested […]
Started out my web surfing today reading a link on Budget travel on line, where Kent and Sony’s blogs were mentioned and linked. Then I began reading Kelly Amibile’s and Erik Olsen’s entries on Gadling, and finally ended up reading a comment by “Easily Pleased,” who runs a fun food-based […]
We worked hard today at the Javits and now are enjoying some wine in our 24th floor room of the Marriot Marquis NY. We are returning to our old favorite restaurant, Osteria Gelsi, on Ninth Avenue, with Sony, Paul, Kent, Lisa, Cindy, Joe, Cathie, all celebrating the GoNOMAD brand as […]
In 1967, when the population reached 200 million, Life magazine dispatched 23 photographers to locate the baby and devoted a five-page spread to its search. Instead of deciding on a statistically valid symbol of the average American newborn, the magazine chose the one born at precisely the appointed time. The […]
We walked and walked, for blocks and blocks, the way you often do when you are in New York City. The mild weather and anticipation of the show made it a fine day to stroll. We finally reached Via Italia, and had chicken parmesan by the window. I kept thinking […]