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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


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The man who eventually would depose Taraki, Hafizullah Amin, was a far more physically impressive figure. Amin was a dark, handsome man with glittering eyes. He was the shrewdest and most literate of the officials I met in Afghanistan, and when we discovered that we had both studied in New York at Columbia University, we hit it off immediately. We spoke to each other in English and reminisced about old haunts and familiar landmarks in the Big Apple. When we parted he gave me a big hug and invited me back as his personal guest. (I would never get the chance. The following year, KGB special forces troops gunned down Amin at the presidential palace as Soviet troops took over the city.) (via How We Invaded Afghanistan | Foreign Policy )

The man who eventually would depose Taraki, Hafizullah Amin, was a far more physically impressive figure. Amin was a dark, handsome man with glittering eyes. He was the shrewdest and most literate of the officials I met in Afghanistan, and when we discovered that we had both studied in New York at Columbia University, we hit it off immediately. We spoke to each other in English and reminisced about old haunts and familiar landmarks in the Big Apple. When we parted he gave me a big hug and invited me back as his personal guest. (I would never get the chance. The following year, KGB special forces troops gunned down Amin at the presidential palace as Soviet troops took over the city.) (via How We Invaded Afghanistan | Foreign Policy

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