It is done.
My latest writing on writing, Professional WordPress, is now up for pre-order on amazon.com. This is the culmination of about 9 months of random sticky notes, trying to parse code, working with two amazing co-authors (David Damstra and Brad Williams, latter of NJ WordPress Meetup fame), one very dedicated editor (Brian MacDonald) [...]
Best Buddies is a non-profit started by the Kennedy Shriver family that creates opportunity – friendship, work, support – for people with intellectual disabilities. If you’re a Jersey hound and are familiar with the Friendship Circle, it’s the left coast cousin. Good friend and long-time Best Buddies support pep first introduced me through [...]
I believe I’m the only person who thought Google’s SuperBowl ad was very well-produced and cute but utterly, totally demonstrative of what’s wrong with Google. It was an anti-beer ad. It was about using technology, instead of getting up off your butt and talking to your friends, going out for a beer, maybe [...]
Went to see Avatar last night, on the flat silver screen instead of the 3-D version. In a word, it was spectacular. In other words, it was an homage, but not in the Dances With Wolves simile that seems to be popular.
Warning: Mild spoilers ahead.
Visually, Avatar was quite simply the best [...]
Had an interesting Facebook repartee with a purely online friend — never met her in person, but I know her through her family. Her late uncle was a big influence in my life. She was lamenting her family fighting it out in public, and I offered the following, as it seems families and family [...]
Cory Doctorow was kind enough to give me an advanced reader’s copy of his upcoming book Makers, which I read in about three sittings. Granted, I’m a Cory fanboy, and I devour his writings like Pop-Tarts (often simultaneously), but this one is, in my slightly biased opinion, his best yet.
It’s a [...]
A break from the emerging markets travelogue.
A few weeks ago I vowed to spend at least a little time each day helping people I know who have been affected by the current economy find new job opportunities. The local economy is nasty; I realized that half (literally) of my close friends are [...]
It’s so rare for me to have an “off day” while traveling on business that I’m remarkably lazy about preparing an itinerary. My usual plan includes: find some entertainment in a local casino and/or Hard Rock Cafe, if they exist (I’m a creature of habit); look for local Jewish historical culture (I’ve been [...]
Despite my luggage trailing me by twelve hours, the Johannesburg leg of the trip got off to a good start. My hotel was adjacent to a casino, and where there’s a casino there’s usually a men’s clothing store amidst other shopping adventures. Sure enough, I arrived at the door of a popular South [...]
Logistics for the 2nd leg of this trip required that I leave Mexico City about half a day after arriving, although that was enough time for me to exhaust my (primarily food oriented) Spanish vocabulary. I believe I ordered fish tacos and hot peppers for lunch; sadly I can’t phrase the gradations [...]
