We have been in Chile for just a few days, and it seems like much longer. We flew this morning from Santiago to Balcameda, a tiny spot on the Argentinian border in the pampas. We then set out over windswept roads the entire width of this 104 km wide country […]
We jumped into a Mercedes taxi in Santiago, Chile, this afternoon and in the back seat flap we found a convenient NY Times news digest waiting for us. Among the day’s news was an item about the “FedEX Economy, evidence that the speed with which American business responds to different […]
From Tina Brown’s recent Washington Post column on the lack of juicy memoirs being written by former and current Bush staffers. “And maybe a Bush memoir will give us a road map at least to some of the mysterious gaps and silences of the past five years. What was really […]
Our new sign on the Interstate Highway 91 North. Billboard advertising has always been exciting to me. I believe there is no better way to publicize a business than a nice-looking sign on a busy highway. I went out with the signmakers today and counted the cars whizzing past as […]
Sometimes you get jokes by email. Eric Jayne sent me a few… …I’ve sure gotten old. I’ve had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement,new knees. Fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I’m half blind, can’t hearanything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that makeme dizzy, winded, and subject […]
This month’s Wired brought a trove of interesting profiles, including a piece by Steven Levy about Tim O’Reilly, who became famous in computer circles by founding a company that publishes manuals and books about software. O’Reilly, who lives in Sebastopol, CA, is big on participation, and spots trends that lie […]
Carl Hoffman wrote a profile of Don Kirlin in this month’s issue of Wired. The opening photo showed Kirlin’s hangar, stocked with fighter jets from the former Soviet Union and Romania. “Kirlin’s collection began as a rich man’s game to buy the baddest toys money can buy. Then he realized […]
A Milwaukee-based petroleum company filed a defamation lawsuit against the parent company of Fond du Lac’s daily newspaper last week on claims an article published in July wrongly inferred a connection with Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists and damaged its business. “According to the civil complaint, a newspaper reporter attributed false […]
AMD says said it will partner with RadioShack to bring low-priced computers to the developing world. The device, called the Personal Internet Communicator, was originally developed for markets underserved by the computer industry and is widely available in Mexico, India, Brazil, and the Caribbean. BusinessWeek. The idea was to make […]
New York Magazine recently ran a piece on which types of dogs attract the most women.Here are some of their scientific results.“Roo, the Australian cattle-dog puppy: In the lobby of Animal Care and Control, Roo immediately pressed his front paws onto me and licked my face. On East 86th Street, […]