We have been in Chile for just a few days, and it seems like much longer. We flew this morning from Santiago to Balcameda, a tiny spot on the Argentinian border in the pampas. We then set out over windswept roads the entire width of this 104 km wide country […]

We jumped into a Mercedes taxi in Santiago, Chile, this afternoon and in the back seat flap we found a convenient NY Times news digest waiting for us. Among the day’s news was an item about the “FedEX Economy, evidence that the speed with which American business responds to different […]

From Tina Brown’s recent Washington Post column on the lack of juicy memoirs being written by former and current Bush staffers. “And maybe a Bush memoir will give us a road map at least to some of the mysterious gaps and silences of the past five years. What was really […]

Kent gets ready for lobster in Martha’s Vineyard last summer. 

Our new sign on the Interstate Highway 91 North.  Billboard advertising has always been exciting to me. I believe there is no better way to publicize a business than a nice-looking sign on a busy highway. I went out with the signmakers today and counted the cars whizzing past as […]

So I’m driving to work this morning, and this dick pulls out in front of me… 

Sometimes you get jokes by email. Eric Jayne sent me a few… …I’ve sure gotten old. I’ve had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement,new knees. Fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I’m half blind, can’t hearanything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that makeme dizzy, winded, and subject […]

This month’s Wired brought a trove of interesting profiles, including a piece by Steven Levy about Tim O’Reilly, who became famous in computer circles by founding a company that publishes manuals and books about software. O’Reilly, who lives in Sebastopol, CA, is big on participation, and spots trends that lie […]