Fareed Zakaria writes in Newsweek this week about finding hope in the sorrows of Tsunami land. The scale of this calamity has shocked even those who are hard to shock. People in this region, he said, are used to tragedy. But this time they are getting help and this is […]
Despite what most people think, only a fraction of Phuket Thailand is destroyed. With the coverage of this, I feared the whole place was wiped out. This is what happened to Phi Phi. Read this more positive spin on AOL News: Although much of Phuket escaped the waves’ wrath with […]
My Trip Journal provides blogs for travelers, and sent out a release offering blogs to relief workers. We caught this account of a traveler caught on the beach in Thailand on the morning of the Big Wave..This is written by a blogger named Chan from the UK Dec 26th … […]
On Monday as we were driving home in the snow from Northern VT, we got a call from a producer at CNN. He wanted us for a live shot to comment on airline passenger’s rights. Though we were more than two hours away, we jumped at the chance, and at […]
Thomas Friedman writes in the NY Times: We face two gigantic national challenges today: One is the challenge to protect America in the wake of the new terrorist threats, which has involved us in three huge military commitments – Afghanistan, Iraq and missile defense. And the other is the challenge […]
Just read this encouraging word in CNN’s travel section. Nearly one in four Americans, or 68 million Web surfers, used online travel sites in November, up 13 percent from a year earlier, said Nielsen/NetRatings. The market research company said 23 percent of Americans and 46 percent of all active Web […]
A Houston man got so mad at his three sons before the holidays that he took all of their presents and sold them on EBay. “My last name is not Scrooge,” the anonymous dad told the Houston Chronicle. He plans to keep all of the emails that he got from […]
Last night we met a bunch of cool people at a Festivus Party in Easthampton, MA. Made popular by Seinfeld, this December 23 ritual has become popular and features a list of grievances, a single aluminum pole and an intergenerational wrestling match at its conclusion. Our host and hostess live […]
From Boing Boing, a Directory of Wonderful Things, one of the best places in the world to check out at 4:45 am: Mayor of Bogota uses mimes for public behavior control This is brilliant. A March article from the March 2004 Harvard University Gazette has a great profile of mayor […]
Lloyd Groves writes in today’s NY Daily News that he’s done, absoutely, positively, shilling for Paris Hilton. He chronicles her shameless selfish self-absorbed life, shooting daggers like a paltry $12 tip on a $300 room service meal, and cutting to the front of a twisted and long ladie’s room line […]
We visited with a few high tech companies this week, trying to get help with some of the mysteries of running a website. We would like to move to a Content Management System, so that we can put up our stories the way the big boys do. Newspaper and magazine […]
We found these words on the web, a derivitive no doubt of Wired Magazine’s monthly list of new terms found that more accurately describe life in 2004. 1. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles. 2. PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm and […]