Archive for August, 2008
The Barber’s Diaries
The motion picture project I’m involved with – The Barber’s Diaries – is moving forward at increasing speed. Director and screenwriter Kevin Willmott (“CSA: Confederate States of America” and “Bunker Hill“) has joined the project. Outpost Worldwide is the production company. The Barber’s Diaries is the true story of Charles Ellis, a black barber who [...]
Steve Jobs Is Not Dead
Bloomberg, the financial newswire service, accidentally published its 17-page obituary for Apple Co-Founder and CEO Steve Jobs. The news service said it was updating the document when it was inadvertently published online. “An incomplete story referencing Apple Inc. was inadvertently published by Bloomberg News at 4:27 p.m. New York time today,” Bloomberg said. “The item [...]
Jon Stewart Calls It As It Is
TV news organizations are angry and reacting to remarks by Jon Stewart, host of “The Daily Show.” Stewart, usually the comedian, seriously criticized the cable news networks as a “brutish, slow-witted beast” and castigated Fox News in particular as “an appendage of the Republican Party.” Fox News reacted by saying Stewart was, “clearly out of [...]
Cumulonimbus
I’ve always loved clouds. Always changing, evolving. Sometimes, spectacular … like this cumulonimbus cloud rising to about 40,000 feet over Florida this week. I snapped it from a flight to Miami. It’s like a work of natural art.
Who Trusts/Respects TSA?
I was flying out of Washington Dulles Airport today, and while going through the security checkpoint, I heard someone screaming … not yelling, but screaming … “My name is supervisor Quail.” About three security lanes over, “Supervisor” Quail was screaming at two passengers over something. The passengers were standing there quietly; Quail was screaming. I [...]
World’s Most Successful Street Vendor
I found Joseph Ades — considered by many as “The World’s Most Successful Street Vendor”— by accident, while I was visiting New York City. He was pitching his wares on a corner of Union Square. Nattily dressed in a well-cut suit, and shirt with cufflinks and tie, he looked like the men known as patterers [...]
Apple Wins on Campus
At a time when Dell continues to define an old style of technology by announcing it would get into the online music business … trailing nearly everyone from Apple to Wal-mart … it seems as if Apple increases its rule on many college campuses. Today’s New York Times has a terrific story about how Freed-Hardeman [...]
iPhone Service: Here & There
Apple has taken a lot of flack in recent weeks over its simultaneous debut of the iPhone 3G-new iPhone software-MobileMe-iPhone Apps store. There is no question it was ambitious … but Apple is the kind of customer-focused company that will get any problems all resolved and make everyone happy. My issue is not with Apple [...]
Conference Cancels Due to Soft Economy
The Digital Life Expo in New York, billed as “the ultimate consumer technology and entertainment event,” has been abruptly cancelled. It was to have been held at the giant Javits Convention Center on September 25-28. Digital Life is owned by Ziff Davis. Reason for the cancellation: ”Soft economy.” I’ve never before heard of such a [...]
Munich to Dulles: Calm to Chaos
While flying to and from Munich, Germany, recently, I noticed such striking differences between the international airport at Munich (pictured to the right) and my home international airport, Dulles, outside Washington, DC. It reminded me of the contrasts that existed when flying between world capitals and some backwater third-world country some years ago. The Munich [...]
