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We drove over to Barnes and Noble today, with the grey skies threatening a Sunday afternoon shower. After looking over many books, I settled on Thomas Friedman’s new “The World is Flat,” and am now deep into reading about Bangladore India’s 24/7 Company, where outsourcing comes to life. “A bottle […]

Pensions are in the news, and is a ticking time bomb, says George Will in today’s NY Post. Pension plans are underfunded by an estimated $450 billion. Who will bail them out? Taxpayers beware. The judge who recently allowed United to bail out on its billions in pension debts said […]

Today’s NY Times reports that132 mayors from all over the country are defying Bush by agreeing to the rules of the Kyoto Treaty. Seattle’s mayor Greg Nickles, leads the way, and many others are coming on board, seeing that if the Feds don’t do something, they’ve got to act. “The […]

From Duncan Pollack, webpro veteran from Niagara Falls, Canada…on how a website should market itself on the web. Here is some sage advice for a florist’s website: “1. Educate your florist about the realities of search engine positioning. Money is probably the least important factor, save for paying for a […]

This morning dawned sunny despite the weatherman’s warnings. Last night we had a wonderful time reading and judging the 50 entries for the GoNOMAD travel awards. Having Lisa here, who grades papers and AP exams for a living, helped a great deal. We read through each one and gave each […]

While at lunch at the BBA Polish Deli in South Deerfield, I picked up a copy of the Recorder. Front page news told of a brave or foolish 61-year old gas station attendent, who thwarted a would be robbery with his bare hands yesterday. “Fazal Elahi was working alone at […]

May’s issue of Men’s Journal had quite a few beauts…including this one by Paul Theroux, famously grumpy travel writer. He describes an incident while he was in Equador looking for a drug to help jump start his book. “Sitting on the riverbank, I saw three gringo women from our group […]

Friday is going to be a fun evening. That is the night that Kent and Lisa St. John and Cindy Bigras and I will be judging the first winner in the GoNOMAD.com travel awards.We came up with this idea back in January, that we would award four winners a $500 […]

Today’s NY Times front page includes a frustrating story that helps explain why one out of every five people in Malawi have the AIDS virus. It is a tradition of male relatives and others having “cleansing sex” with widows after their husbands die. Just as the wife is recovering from […]

We were had. It started on Wednesday, as any of you regular readers would know, when I posted here about being rudely told off by the intern who didn’t want to come work with us after getting a better offer from National Geographic. After a more careful look at the […]

The hot tub, where everybody hangs out, at the nude resort.  This is one of the windiest places I’ve ever been, I was there in 2005, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve already installed a wind turbine and solar panels. I often think back and wonder what has changed […]