RFID Tags Will Become Ubiquitous–soon!
This from USA Today “For instance, the technology could have a profound impact on garbage. Never again would you have to sort recyclables from other garbage. Just throw it all together. At a garbage facility, trucks could dump their loads on a conveyor belt that goes past an RFID reader, […]
High Beams Keep Drivers On the Road
Lawrence, Kansas is a liberal town, with a leg up on the internet enabled home news experience. The publishers of the local paper there were clever, they own the company that puts in the cable tv and high speed internet wires. So they have an 80% cable coverage, and have […]
Hillary: Reassuring Senatorial Egos
Tina Brown used to edit Joe Klein’s stories when she was at Vanity Fair, and recently columned in the Washington Post about his new anti-Hillary tome. She knows him, and thus is qualified to judge what’s behind this book, full of weird and wacky assertions about the former first couple. […]
Ramblings from Ack
Some things you are going to hear more about…and you heard about them here first. Reporting from the Dolphin Hotel, Nantucket. Europe is all abuzz about the Polish Plumber. A publicity campaign featuring a hunky Polish Plumber is a jab at comments in France expressing fears that plumbers and other […]
Chickadee’s Trills are Fighting Words
A chickadee with a leg band. CNN Today in a Reuter’s story about the calls of Chickadees…and what they mean “If you ever go out and are hearing a chickadee making a really long string of “D” notes on a call — six or eight or even 10 — you […]
Scott Ritter: The U.S. is at War with Iran Now
Last night we drove up to Woolman Hill in Deerfield to hear Scott Ritter speak. Ritter, former UN Weapons inspector, is a tall man with a commanding knowledge of his subject. He spoke without notes and with passion about how the US constitution is being shredded by the Patriot act […]
Talking in the Studio of WMAS-FM
It is a lovely summer. Being in the travel business brings no end of pleasant gifts and fortunate circumstances. Today I dropped by the studio of WMAS, right next to the Connecticut River in West Springfield. I was there to tape a segment about travel with Lopez, who produces the […]