Today was a glorious day, with the snow covering the statue of Lafayette outside our hotel window on Central Park South. I’m full of vigor and psyched to spend the day here at the Javits Center. I’ve got the Macbook all warmed up, I’ve got great people like Cindy and […]
I am in the Holiday Inn in midtown Manhattan. Outside it is a howling blizzard with umbrellas breaking all over the street and hard driving snow pelting down sideways. We went to the Ritz Carleton and Kent sipped a drink that cost $20. I appreciated his largesse by not ordering […]
I’ve been thinking about the economic problems in Greece, ever since I brought the topic up with my Greek-American friends Rick and Georgio. They laughed about their home country’s government ineptitude and free spending. A column in today’s WSJ by Bret Stephens provided me with a little more clarity. In […]
February snow is falling on Mountain Rd. and it’s time to begin another day. Last night I found a guy on the Comedy Channel who I think will become a huge TV star some day. He is Daniel Tosh, and he hosts a modern-day version of the old Candid Camera, […]
All of a sudden my gadgets and I are the most fascinating thing in the world to Sofie, age 1. So I am now fighting to keep my pristine white new Macbook away from her grubby paws. Handing her the iPhone I try to molify her. But her attention goes […]
Phew! I am sitting at the end of the day in the window of the cafe. A familiar spot. My cafe acquaintance Paul told me some of what he knows about the Holyoke High Performance Computing Center that’s coming soon. He said in his government office they use water that […]
For our Valentine’s day afternoon, a workout at the Y and a movie were in order. I was feeling a bit under the weather as a result of something I ate on Saturday in Mexico, so we lay low and enjoyed an inside day, with the exception of the Y. […]
I dined last night at a table full of journalists, in an exciting city, with plenty of wine and unusual food–the kind of setting that I yearn for. The reach of the conversation was fascinating; the topic was mainly this fabulous country–Mexico. I’ve learned over the years to cherish these […]
However short this trip is, it was fine with me to spend the day looking out at the Gulf of Mexico from my seventh floor perch here at the NH Hoteles. When I checked in, they strapped a wristband on me that’s provided me with Coronas and food for the […]
I sat at the breakfast table with a view of the azure sea, and right beside me sat a man facing a portly couple, both looking at a form he wanted them to fill out. What else was he doing but selling a timeshare, the leading business of this, the […]
“I have met so many people as a result of social media,” said Leslie, an active blogger, twitterer and Facebooker, and one of the presenters at Podcamp Western Mass. “I met Morris, my partner, and I met another person who became a business partner, and so many people all over […]
Doesn’t a free trip to Cancun sound good? Yeah, it does, but when you book a ticket six days in advance the flight details are kinda gnarly. I’m not one to complain but I fly out of Bradley at 6 am and spend about four hours in Dallas. It’s only […]