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Is a hotel just a place to sleep, or is it a delightful experience you’ll always remember? It’s clear that most hotel owners hope you’ll believe the latter. I have to say that for the past few nights, my experience at one of the world’s most prestigious hotel brands has […]
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 […]
I am still amazed I actually did it. I crossed over after twenty-five or more years of using a PC and bought a MacBook. I don’t expect to become one of those Apple fanatics who vociferously defend anything the company makes, but I gotta admit my experience with my iPhone […]
At three am, I tossed in my bed, almost knocking Mamacat off her perch nestled there at my feet. I have had this date seared into my mind for months; now it’s time to drive to Boston and speak to a crowd. I toss and turn worrying about what I’m […]
How important is a soup can label? Important enough that Campbell’s soup spent two years studying the ‘neuromarketing’ of how people decide to buy soup. A story in yesterday’s WSJ by Ilan Brat dove into the details of how to tweak a label to nudge up sales. Illustrations showed the […]
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 […]
I love to make predictions. I have been reading about a new website that is becoming very popular on college campuses. Some have even wrote that this new idea will someday eclipse the gargantuan that is Facebook. It’s so simple, it’s hard to believe that nobody has thought of it […]
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. […]