We are in the middle of 11 days in Italy. After visiting Nate in Crema over the weekend we drove to Cortona, a walled Tuscan hill town. Etruscans settled Cortona thousands of years ago, and it has been inhabited and a hub of commercial and artistic life since then. The streets are narrow, cobbled, and steep. Very [...]
Recently we returned from 12 days in northern Italy. Our various stays provided little Internet access and I did not post as-I-was-there trip updates. I will make up for that over the next few days. I’ll start with our initiation into driving in Italy. Our trip took us from Milan’s Malpensa Airport (“mal” as in [...]
I returned from my bike trip (see here and here) almost a month ago. Veloce Bicycles in Portland (excellent store) packed our bikes and FedEx delivered them to my house last week–except for mine. I was in Maine when FedEx arrived and didn’t learn my bike was missing until Monday morning. The tracking data showed [...]
A story in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal titled NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows as Agency Sweeps Up Data (subscription required) reports that– According to current and former intelligence officials, the spy agency now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions, travel and telephone records. The [...]
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
. . . when you are a summer associate. Last week I was comparing notes about our legal careers with an acquaintance. We met when we overlapped briefly at a large Boston firm–I was on my out the door to become general counsel with a real estate development company, he had just come in as [...]
As the blog train begins powering up for the fall, a few news articles have caught my wandering attention: 100,000 Gone Since 2001 (Bob Herbert, The New York Times 14-Aug-07) 100,000 people have been murdered in the U.S. since 9/11. “No heightening of consciousness has accompanied this slaughter, which had nothing to do with terrorism. [...]
If you haven’t had enough pictures of the WYMPS 2007 bike trip, Bruce posted his photos on Picasa. Beautiful photos of Wyoming and Idaho, even if you don’t know any of us who went. Sphere: Related Content Related posts My Bike Travels On (0) Vanishing Trials (0) Uphill (0) Three Bike Tales (0) The Sun [...]