A lifestyle blog of Silicon Valley nerd and part-time Travel Journalist
Here is the recording of a webinar that I did for Travelpayouts.com on how to create your own travel podcast. At the time of this recording I had: created different 5 podcasts published 1,800 podcast episodes which were downloaded more than 25 million times won travel journalism awards for my podcasting including being named the …
I grew up playing board games of all kinds, but my taste in games has changed over the years. When I was 4 or 5 I liked Chutes and Ladders and Candyland. Later on, my tastes turned to Risk, Clue, and Mousetrap. When I was in high school I played strategy games. As an adult, …
One thing that science fiction has taught us is that robots are cool… at least until they take over the world. But some robots are cooler than others. I had the opportunity recently to visit Intuitive Surgical with my alumni group from RPI. Intuitive Surgical is located here in Silicon Valley. They make surgical robots. …
My father is 84 years old and grew up, for obvious reasons, without computers and the internet. So I sometimes get requests from him that I can’t accomplish because he does not understand how the internet works. My father will ask me to change something on the Yahoo mail site (I setup his browser to …
I can google with the best of them… at least that’s what I thought before I saw this interview by Patrick Norton of Google’s Matt Cutts. I knew how to: do a phrase match – use quotes exclude specific words – use minus do spell checking get around spell check – use plus do currency …
At the end of June I had the opportunity to spend 3 days at the Socrates Society at the Aspen Institute discussing “Media and Our Conflicting Values” with a group of 25 smart people (CEOs, VCs, Entrepreneurs, etc). Our moderator was Michael Powell the former head of the FCC. Before we attended we had homework …
If you have ever been in a foreign country you have probably had a conversation similar to this: “You are from California? I have a friend in California, maybe you know him!” We always laugh when this happens because California has roughly 30 million residents and is larger in size than many countries (it is …
One of the utilities that I wonder how I ever got along without is called Jumpcut by Steve Cook. My day job is working for an internet company so I live in my browser for hours and hours everyday. I am constantly copying or cutting and then pasting a piece of information from one place …
My iPod is too quiet. I know what you think. He must already be a victim of hearing loss like in the class action suit recent filed against Apple. That is not the case. My hearing is fine. I have even had it checked recently. And yet the fact remains that my iPod is too …