Hiatus

It’s time to take a hiatus from the blogosphere for a just a little bit. I must say, it’s tough to get away from the pull of the net. I need to concentrate on other non-internet related projects at this moment in time. I don’t have a timetable when I’ll return, but the site is [...]

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Tour de France

After switching television providers from DirecTV to Comcast, I now have the luxury of having the Tour de France delivered on my television every night courtesy of OLN. Unfortunately, there’s no more Lance Armstrong who retired last year after his record-breaking seventh victory in a row. Instead, Armstrong was seen bashing the French at the [...]

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Italian League

Three teams have been demoted from Serie-A, the top Italian league, to Serie-B, the second-tier league as a result of the match-fixing scandal that has rocked the Italian league this past year. Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina have been relegated to Serie B while AC Milan avoided relagation, but it will start the season with a [...]

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Classic Joke

It’s time to pull out a classic joke. This one is about Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place where the lovers are Italian, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the police are English and the government is run by the Swiss. Hell is a place where the lovers are the Swiss, the [...]

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Better Gas Up

With the recent crisis in the Middle East, crude oil prices have gone up and is now at $76.70 up by $1.75. Gasoline prices will most likely continue to go up in the next few days. The cheapest gas in my area of Fremont, CA is now at $3.09 and the most expensive at $3.29 [...]

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July 11th

New York has September 11, Madrid has March 11, and now Mumbai has July 11. What’s the deal with the number 11? Seven coordinated explosions ripped through the Indian financial capital yesterday grinding the city to a halt. A total of 196 people are dead and hundred of others are injured. No one has claimed [...]

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Airfares

My knowledge of internet sites providing airline deals is a bit stale. For years I’ve relied on Priceline, Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz and Hotwire. Recently, I helped a friend find a good airline deal online, so I whipped out my usual list of websites. But, I found them to be inadequate. I had to jump from [...]

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USA 16th in FIFA Rankings

Team USA fell to 16th place in the FIFA rankings after the World Cup. This is fair. Most American fans never believed Team USA was ranked 4th in the world at one time. The US performance in the World Cup showed the rest of the world that we have a long ways to go in [...]

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Advertising

Last year, $28.6 billion dollars of advertising went to newspapers. Television ads still dwarfs everything else when it comes to marketing products with an annual income of $53.9 billion dollars. Internet advertising revenue is just a paltry $8.3 billion. What this tells me is that television is still king when it comes to marketing products. [...]

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Zidane

In the overtime of the World Cup Final, Zinedine Zidane just missed a wide-open header that could have made the French the champions of the world, but Buffon the Italian keeper had other ideas. Buffon tipped the ball over the crossbar preserving a 1-1 tie. It was a golden opportunity for Zidane to put France [...]

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