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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.

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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.com
Hand-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


Archive

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“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)

“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
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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
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100 million sadhu on the Ganges this week!

100 million sadhu on the Ganges this week!

Jan
13th
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This is what it looks like when galaxies collide!

This is what it looks like when galaxies collide!

Jan
3rd
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.