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 […]

Terry Gross interviewed Sonny Rollins on her radio show Fresh Air. Rollins talked with his somber hoarse voice about lving in Tribeca and having to move out of his apartment after 9/11. “I left my piano there, ” he said, “Monk played that and Dizzy and many others.” Rollins explained […]

In Deauville, a town hard by the Northern coast of France, they honor film and writers with a festival of cinema. One of the honorees was 90-something “ex Hollywood Prince” Bud Schulberg. He hung out with Castro in the early days, joining him for a tall vodka with Erroll Flynn […]

Found this on little Green Footballs this morning, from the Washington Post.“[New Orleans Mayor] Nagin did not tell everyone to leave immediately, because the regional plan called for the suburbs to empty out first, but he did urge residents in particularly low-lying areas to “start moving — right now, as […]

We picked up the Wall Street Journal Europe on the plane and read this report about the lessons learned by the Dutch after the devastation in New Orleans. Molly Moore wrote about the terrible flood in 1953 that killed 1900 people in the Netherlands. “New Orleans is a good lesson […]

Back in the U.S. after a relaxing and fun vacation in the Le Marche region in Eastern Italy, I am trying to do that catching up that is needed to wire me back in. So nice to read my friend Kent’s blog, love hearing about his sailing adventures and the […]

In September’s Wired came a long story titled ‘Reinventing Television.” He contrasts Yahoo’s sophisticated approach to integrating the website with television through video search and their own web tv programming to Google’s stumbling, not yet ready for primetime approach. It might be because Yahoo’s chairman Terry Semel spent 24 years […]