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The Cyprus story is certainly more than the Green line and the north. There is plenty of beauty here on the Southern shores, where the cliffs show the glint off the Mediterranean. We started the day visiting the Temple of Apollo, on a windy bluff off the highway. This country […]

Here is the UN line where as of 2004, Cypriots can travel to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. One thing most people never do is stay over, since they don’t want to give money to the Turks who have settled in their former land. In the newspaper here, there […]

We’ve been in Cyprus for one day and have talked a lot about the big question many of us brought with us: What is up with the separation of the country? Our guide had firm opinions, as did most of the other Cypriots. She said that when she was asked […]

Tonight as I flew to London, I had plenty of time to read the Weekend Wall Street Journal. Among the notable stories was a profile of a rarity: A muslim who has spoken out, loudly, against the twisted views that Islamofacists are putting out. Yenny Wahid is a prominent Muslim […]

Since losing two DVDs owned by Blockbuster, I haven’t been able to rent my usual share of movies, even though they continue to bill me each month. One of the movies I would have rented was offered on Virgin Atlantic’s amazing inflight movie system, where a veritable blockbusterish bevy of […]

Today was another whirlwind of a day, we began at 9 am as a snowstorm blew about, meeting with the new cafe employees. GoNOMAD CAFE, the new internet cafe in town, will officially open on March 7. We gathered our future baristas together to discuss what we expect and how […]

Jason Lee Miller writes in Web Pro News about how popular cell phones are for Porn“The young executive sits with his back against the terminal wall and flips open his mobile phone. Using Google’s Mobile Search, he begins sifting through an array of tawdry “religious experiences” and nobody’s the wiser. […]

From today’s Village Voice sad news about a really cool idea. “Minutes into last month’s Critical Mass bike ride in Manhattan, two cops on scooter patrol collided as they moved to head off the cyclists. One officer reportedly lost control while trying to grab a biker and slammed into the […]

“It all began on a Thursday. I was at my computer idly scrolling through House & Home, that most invidious section of the New York Times, and there it was: a splashy article about New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean, and the house she and her husband recently built in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]