Toledo
We got up early, showered, ate breakfast, and then looked for a taxi. And looked. And looked some more. We had to try three places for over a half hour to get a cab down to the train station Estacion Atoche – there’s a large tropical garden with standing water and lillies; its very humid […]
June 21st, 2006 by alephnaught
Madrid
We got up a little late and slow, grabbed breakfast in the hotel, cleaned up and skipped out to a local travel agent to get tickets for the AVE (high speed) train to Toledo tomorrow (30 minutes – can’t beat that); of course, it took almost an hour to get the tickets because friends of […]
June 20th, 2006 by alephnaught
Arrival in Madrid
We flew in with a connection at Schiphol in Amsterdam; our flight to Madrid was a little late. We took a cab from the airport and got to the hotel around 1:30P. We’re staying at the Best Western Premier Hotel Santo Domingo. The room is small but inexpensive – they claim they have wireless internet […]
June 18th, 2006 by alephnaught
Flowers in our garden
I wanted to post a couple of pictures from our garden. We planted a dogwood a while back – I’m from Virginia and its the state tree, you see them everywhere in Virginia. Anyway, its finally taking good root and bloomed: And I made lots of trips to Amsterdam over the last year and a […]
June 14th, 2006 by alephnaught
The Business Guide to Legal Literacy : What Every Manager Should Know About the Law
Title: The Business Guide to Legal Literacy : What Every Manager Should Know About the Law Author: Hanna Hasl-Kelchner Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Jossey-Bass (March 31, 2006) Language: English ISBN: 078798255 I won this book on http://inbubblewrap.com/ , which is a great web site (its a give-away site for 800ceoread.com, which is a great on-line […]
June 10th, 2006 by alephnaught
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Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth
Title: Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth Author: Matthew Yeomans Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: New Press (January 5, 2006) ISBN: 159558028X On my last trip to visit family in Detroit, Aviva and I stopped at the Bookbeat , a very interesting independent bookstore in Southfield, MI. They specialize in art, […]
June 4th, 2006 by alephnaught
Visited Nathan this weekend
This weekend Aviva and I went to Detroit, a dying city. We went to the naming ceremony for the daughter of a cousin of Aviva’s – it was a very nice ceremony. Saturday I got to see Nathan – as you can see from this picture, he looks a lot like his dad: Nathan is […]
May 28th, 2006 by alephnaught
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The Big Moo : Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable
Title: The Big Moo : Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable Author: The Group of 33, Seth Godin Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover (October 20, 2005) ISBN: 1591841038 I actually read this one a few weeks ago and forgot to enter it here – big mistake, this is a must-read book. […]
May 28th, 2006 by alephnaught
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Don’t Be Friends With Christians or Jews, Saudi Texts Say
Don’t Be Friends With Christians or Jews, Saudi Texts SayBy HASSAN FATTAHMay 24, 2006Quoted from The New York Times
May 28th, 2006 by alephnaught
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Somali in The Hague Faces a More Personal Attack
Somali in The Hague Faces a More Personal AttackBy Marlise SimonsMay 24, 2006Quoted from The New York Times
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+Bob Hays
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June 22nd, 2006 by alephnaught
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