Today’s my Mom’s birthday.
Wish her happy birthday with me!

Happy Birthday, Mom!

On the drive to South Portland this morning to get bagels (I love you 158 Pickett Street Cafe), I saw a surprising oil tanker in port – the Dubai Star!
You …

And the winner of the most interesting use of college students as skilled labor without being called that and probably not being paid, thus replacing skilled laborers in their own …

Did you see this the other day? “Apple now third-largest PC seller in U.S.”
How about that?
Apparently after the last quarter, the numbers stand at:
24.3% – Hewlett-Packard
23.1% – Dell
10.6% – …

On my quest for Purple Pesto I found another purple basil plant – the Basil Red Rubin:

I guess I haven’t talked about the Cordoba House Islamic Center at 51 Park Place on Manhattan for some time, but the other day I ran across a fantastic article …

Did you see this article last week? I thought it was pretty interesting: “Undocumented Language Found Hidden In India.”
Key quote:
Previously undocumented languages are “noticed from time to time” Harrison …

Wow, Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public schools are closing for Eid al-Fitr in the 2011-2012 school year.
Check out this article from Sunday’s Boston Globe: “School system to get Muslim holiday.”
“At a time …

Besides tomatoes, this year I successfully grew basil as well, and have made a few batches of pesto from my bounty.
I was looking at seed websites last week, as now …

Oh yeah: “‘Mission Impossible’ filming starts in Dubai soon“.

Reminds me of a statement I made four years ago (see James Bond in Dubai):
I bet you that at some point in …

Apparently the owners of the Boston Red Sox, New England Sports Ventures, has put in a bid to buy Liverpool FC of the English Premier League?

Now that’s called diversifying! …

This is pretty clever: “Should Taxpayers Get Receipts?”
Check out this sample:

If this is accurate, it’s fascinating.

One of the reasons that I love baseball is the statistical element.
Today’s the final game of the season for my Boston Red Sox, after having been statistically eliminated from the …

Well here’s a shocker, the UAE has banned a technological doo-hickey.
Yawn. Must be a Tuesday.
One of the new features in the new Apple iPhone 4 is FaceTime, a video …

Interesting article over at the Orlando Sentinel, “Disney becoming more generous with political contributions.”
Disney, employing close to 60,000 people in Central Florida, has lots of clout, but apparently they’re not …

For weeks I’ve been talking about Portland Press Herald publisher and editor Richard L. Connor’s apology for covering Ramadan and then his rephrasing of that apology.
Unfortunately the story gained only …

On Thursday afternoon my grandmother’s sister passed away in Connecticut.
She was a wonderful, caring woman; I really only saw her at the holidays when she hosted the entire …

So I wrote to Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart after Richard L. Connor’s apology for Ramadan coverage on September 11th.
After a week of not seeing anything, I gave …

I have to mention this (a few days late). Portland Press Herald editor and publisher, Richard L. Connor, has written another article about his apology for the Ramadan coverage …

Letters to the Editor of the Portland Press Herald regarding their apology are finally up: “More Letters to the editor, Sept. 16, 2010: Same day, different views: Eid and Sept. …