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Have you ever heard of a Jatropha plant? It’s a weed that grows in barren landscapes, needing barely any water and surviving tough soil. Today’s WSJ reports that in India it’s the latest hot topic and thousands of acres are being planted with what was once a worthless weed. It […]

Elba, oh Elba, I am beginning to love you. Spent time today on the phone with Maurizio. He said he would be our personal guide to Elba, where we are traveling on Sept 9. I love planning ferry rides and rental cars in faraway places…we will be meeting his friend […]

I’m working at the cafe this morning but of course, have to take time to blog—hey, that’s my day job! So I picked up BusinessWest and of course turned to the story of the month: Publisher John Gormally’s purchase of abc40, the Springfield MA television station. The news is good. […]

Reading the New York Times on Cindy’s patio, I found a story about the fast growing population of The Republic of Ireland. It’s Europe’s Number one country for population growth–a mean feat on a continent with such stagnating growth rate that no one knows who will change the sheets and […]

Do you really wanna be? Dunkin’ Donuts, now owned by Thomas H. Lee Partners, Bain Capital Partners and the Carlyle Group, is big on market research to keep up its torrid growth rate. A story in the WSJ a few weeks ago discussed how they decide which new cities to […]

At the end of the day I decided to jazz up our GoNOMAD Cafe Myspace page. Click the image to get a mouth-watering close-up!So we added a whole new photo gallery by Manager and photographer Liz Bagley. They make the food look very good. Hat tip to my son-in-law Francisco […]

Web Pro News is the Bible when it comes to trying to understand the vast web with its many secret rules and algorithms. Often, one of the big decisions a website editor makes is who to link to. Every day emails are received from someone seeking a link. And it’s […]

After our 3:30 am wake-up call in Medellin, we’re finally on the last leg of our long voyage home, aboard a 737 bound for Hartford from Miami. In the seat pocket of the jet I picked up a copy of Mountain Biker and read about a tattooed biker who regretted […]