At the post office this morning I found a discarded copy of Network World, where there was a story about a recent contest held in Finland involving hurling cell phones. The contest is simple, requiring only a basket of discarded and broken handsets, an open space, chairs for the three […]

I read this on a Bolivian blog today. Why don’t we have the nerve to do this? “Today is one of my favorites in Cochabamba, “Pedestrian Day”. On this Sunday (repeated once each year) there are no cars on the streets of this city of 700,000. No giant green Ford […]

Tina Brown writes in the Washington Post that Rupert Murdoch is famous for switching sides for business reasons, and he just may be doing that against the Bush administration. “The difference between Fox News and Murdoch’s other news outfits is that Ailes is almost as formidable a figure as the […]

Frank Rich doesn’t hold back when he writes about the transgressions of the Bush adminstration in his NY Times column. “When there’s money on the line, cronies always come first in this White House, no matter how great the human suffering. After Katrina, the FEMA Web site directing charitable contributions […]

Philip Gefter wrote evocatively about photographer Richard Avedon in today’s NY Times. “Through Avedon’s eyes, female beauty is not viewed with distrust, as a collection of wiles and veils that can manipulate, obfuscate or seduce. In one photograph, the model Liz Pringle stands effortlessly poised in a boat, with the […]

Got this news on email today from Eric Jayne. “The British are feeling the pinch in relation to recent bombings, thelevel has just been raised from “miffed” to “peeved’! Soon though, the levels may be raised yet again to “irritated’ or even “a bit cross”! Londoners have not been a […]

Last night after the big finale dinner of the tradeshow, we made our way to the bar called Phins, in our Niagara Falls Hotel. There we met a pair of men from Holland. Kent bought them a pair of Grey Goose Vodkas on ice, (I think they wanted shots) and […]

  Bruce Blakelock used to work for a big chemical company in Niagara, but seven years ago he made a break for the water. He’s a fishing captain and co owner of the Riverside Motel, in Lewiston NY. He took us out fishing in his 18′ boat yesterday. He said […]

Daryl Lang writes in Photo District News, about Reuters, which recently shot a close up photo of a note written by President Bush asking it he could take a bathroom break. “The news service explains why they put the photo on the wire: “Heads of state seldom attend Security Council […]

Today’s USA Today was outside my hotel door, so I picked it up and read about car sharing. This is offered by two growing companies, Zipcar and Flexcar, and they offer a fleet of cars you can rent by the hour or the day, using the internet as an easy […]

We drove miles and miles over the New York Thruway. The unending fields and rows of corn were interspersed with golf courses, glimpes of deer in fields, and peeks into broken down upstate towns. When we finally exited the Thruway, after 270 miles, we drove toward Niagara Falls. The sides […]

Up really early today, thinking about where I need to go. Can you believe I am going to drive to Albany this morning then continue on all the way past BUFFALO? I am just back from my trip to Italy Sunday, but obligations call me to Niagara Falls. It is […]