Jan
25th
Fri
25th
I've been writing, blogging and marketing online for more than 15 years.
This page offers snippets of what I find interesting, and what I'm working on.
Where to find me
Rent my Budapest flat
I'm traveling in Asia through May 2012. You can rent my flat in downtown Budapest while I'm away.Current projects
TheRealPashmina.comHand-woven pashmina (cashmere) shawls, made to order for you in Nepal
SeaGypsyAdventures.com
Blogging my way through Southeast Asia to Nepal
nowEurope.com
Tech entrepreneurship in Central Europe since 1995
Kaskosan.com
Earth's largest Gypsy social networking site
BudapestToastmasters.com
I'm a founder and past president of the club
Jan
21st
Mon
21st
“Whether you understand it or not, those characters, those lines, those curves throw open the horizon all the way to eternity in your brain.” (via Turkish Airlines)
Jan
18th
Fri
18th
the number of U.S. adults who die from too much medicine is now higher than the number who die for lack of it
Jan
15th
Tue
15th
100 million sadhu on the Ganges this week!
Jan
13th
Sun
13th
This is what it looks like when galaxies collide!
Jan
3rd
Thu
3rd
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) assailed the fiscal-cliff legislation today, calling it “a classic example of putting 98.5 per cent of the American people ahead of the rest of the country.
Jan
1st
Tue
1st
Self-help is steeped in “that painful, self-congratulatory aspect that American success has. It’s not enough to be successful, you get to take full individual credit for it,” as if no one had helped you along the way. “Our indebtedness to each other is erased in this literature,” McGee says.
Dec
28th
Fri
28th
We have economic fear combined with everybody joined together on these instant twitchy social networks which are designed to create mass action. What does it sound like to you? It sounds to me like the prequel to potential social catastrophe. I’d rather take the risk of being wrong than not be talking about that.
Before being monopolized by a single person working in tandem with a corporation, Monopoly had in fact been “invented” by many people—not just Magie and the Raifords but also the unknown player who gave the game its moniker and the unsung Ardenite who had perhaps aided Magie in advancing its rules. The game that today stresses the ruthlessness of the individual and defines victory as the impoverishment of others was the product of communal labor.
Dec
19th
Wed
19th
A study from the Brookings Institute says that it will soon be within the reach of the government — and other organizations — to keep a digital record everything that everyone in the country says or does, and the NSA is clearly on the cutting edge of large-scale data storage.
