January 2008
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a very short history of me on the web
Although I had made a few attempts at a personal website before, my first effort began in 1996 when I registered skylarking.com as a domain, a reference to the XTC album of the same name. A few years later, I registered cricketmedia.com to serve as a website for my consulting business. Later, I killed skylarking.com and moved everything to cricketmedia.com, personal or otherwise. So, for one brief...
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our rules for trips (new and improved!)
Before our recent trip to New Zealand, we created the following rules:
No fast food
No staying in hotels or motels
Minimum overnight stay in one location of 3 days
No pre-planning or scheduling unless absolutely necessary
No more than 5 hours of travel between places we stay overnight
Happily, I declare the rules to have been a success:
Avoiding fast food led to just generally feeling...
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a kinder, gentler health care
The upside of catching a nasty flu bug on my last week in New Zealand was getting a genuine glimpse inside a health care system outside the USA for the first time. Without getting into the pros and cons of socialized medicine, the experience was profoundly more humane and comfortable than I’m used to:
When I walked into the medical facility, they simply asked me if I would like to see a...