Cousin Steve’s New Blog–Armchair Travel
My cousin Stephen works at GoNOMAD as our Associate Editor. He’s really the editor of our site, I send him direction but now he handles all of the day to day chores of editing, selecting, getting the art and details of our articles together. It pleases me to have my […]
Oh Please, please Don’t Take Away My ‘Net!
On the plane back from San Francisco, I read an old copy of the Atlantic Monthly. Among the many choice items was a snippet about what happens when Internet users are deprived of their daily fix. Being in the category of email addict, I read with interest about a study […]
Paying More on Saturday and Less on Tuesday
We woke up to East coast like temps today, much to the horror of our B&B proprietor, Diana, here in Forestville CA. The newspaper we brought up the room included a story from the NY Times about how movie prices will soon follow the path of airline tickets, going up […]
Hiking in Muir Woods with an Ipod
I remember my mother telling me in 1967 about driving down the NJ Turnpike listening to a friend’s new 8-track tape machine. She said it turned the dreary surroundings into beautiful meadows with the help of the strains of Beethoven enveloping the car. I thought about Val today when I […]
Sexy Statuary and Dungeness Crabs in SF
Last night we drove over the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco. We weren’t sure where to go, we thought we’d start at Ghirardelli Square, and poke about the shops. The weather was unseasonably cold, rain came down in spurts, and there were tourists ducking in and out of little […]
Check the Buzz on Blogs Before You Buy
Jason Lee Miller writes on Web Pro news today about a new phone from Toshiba that asks blogs what they think about new products, giving shoppers a quick check before they buy. “Have trouble making purchase decisions? Toshiba has developed a mobile phone technology that scans product bar codes and […]
Infohub Lessons: Focus on First Things First
Today I met Roy Andrada, a VP from Infohub.com at my hotel. We walked across the street to the Marin County Brewing Co. for lunch. Roy and partner Jim Zhu used to work together at Sun Microsystems and back in 1993 decided to start their own travel portal. “We saw […]
The Monster Telescope Funded by the Military
In a hotel room in Larkspur California, I was hoping it would be warm, but it’s only mild. Ten miles from here there was a rare snowfall, about an inch fell and it is all over the local news from San Francisco. I read today about a monster telescope that […]