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Car rental fees are getting more creative
Perhaps car rental companies figure that people won’t pay much attention to the continuously creeping up of additional fees tagged on car rentals. The airlines have mastered this and car rental companies are taking pages out of the airlines’ playbook. … Continue reading
Mother Nature and Irene trump technology
If you are anywhere in the Mid-Atlantic toward the Northeast you have woken up this Monday morning to at least some partial disruption to your normal routine. Here in Connecticut more than 750,000 ‘customers’ are without power. Being that there … Continue reading
Real-life social networking – Facebook changes college sorority rush
How do I know this? Our daughter is a freshman and is interested in joining a sorority. She told us that all of the girls that are already in sororities and charged with recruiting incoming freshmen have to deactivate their … Continue reading
Mobile phone batteries are horrible – why can’t they be better NOW?
I just spent a couple of days out of the office with some business associates who are also friends. Since we were not at a desk or even carrying around an iPad we naturally used our mobile devices as our … Continue reading
Are we heading for no smoking anywhere ever again?
New York’s Governor Andrea Cuomo is the son of one of the more popular and liberal governors the state of New York has ever known. In his brief time in office Governor Cuomo has shown that the apple does not … Continue reading
I will pass on the double dip thank you
I remember in 2008 hearing some people say ‘I refuse to participate in the recession’. As if they had some control of general economic trends and forces. Oh sure it sounds defiant and strong but it’s also something like whistling … Continue reading
Eating and playing in China – it’s like nowhere else I’ve ever been
Every time I go to China the days and nights are long and interesting. As I noted in a prior post tea flows freely during the day and night, and alcohol flows freely at night as does engaging conversation. The … Continue reading
Things are getting more expensive in China – but life in China is cheap
I have learned a new expression on this trip to China from people that live here – ‘Life is cheap in China’. This has been said to me by westerners and Chinese alike. The recent high speed train crash was … Continue reading
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