The Ghost Train Leaves New Orleans
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 […]
New Orleans Sounds Warning for Other Low Lying Places
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 […]
Finding Calamari by the Adriatic & Turkey in Roma
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 […]
Showing Google the Door
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 […]
The Tyrant Who Shot the Bears
I took a book called “Wild Stories” with me on our trip to Italy, and read this passage called “Creatures of the Dictator,” by Rick Bass. “The reason there are now so many grizzlies in Romania—back in the 1940s, for example, there were only about nine hundred—is that Ceausescu liked […]
Our House, Casa Fontanelle–for a week!
Casa Fontanelle, our rented house in Le Marche where we are staying with my Mom and Dad this week. View photo gallery
Dialing it up in Le Marche…s l o w l y !
Waiting and waiting here in this computer shop in Passo Sant’Angelo, Italy, for our emails to come up. Is this what is used to be like back in the dial-up era? We can’t believe how annoying this is…wow. When I think that most of the world’s internet is this slow, […]
What Stays in Vegas
Las Vegas’ tourism commission is fighting to keep its slogan from being hijacked. But with licensing rights worth potentially millions of dollars on the line, the clothing company is fighting back in court, arguing that Las Vegas is hardly the first place in the world where people have promised to […]