I heard a definition of Folk Art once that explained it as an attempt, by someone who is not formally trained in art, to create art — regardless.  Ha!  Guilty as charged.  I have been known to muck around with some art, yet no one has ever accused me of being very educated.  My creed: […]

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I grew up on Old Route 66, so I suppose road trips run through my veins. And I don’t think it is coincidence that I am somewhat of a visual thinker … Ha … probably influenced by all that overexposure to the artwork of Route 66. The billboards, the Indian teepees and the curio shops […]

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We will continue to tweet live from the pressbox and the sidelines of the inaugural TicketCity Bowl, here at the old Cotton Bowl in Dallas. It is halftime, with Texas Tech leading Northwestern 24-6. BTW, The Old Cotton Bowl pressbox has not one but three Wi-Fi hotspots up here … color me impressed … wish […]

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What is PingWi-Fi doing in the Japantown backstreets of San Francisco, attending the SF Music Tech seminar? Well as I told the group following along on Twitter during the morning sessions, “If any of us were real music people — A: We wouldn’t even be up this early in the morning, and B: If we […]

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Driving into San Francisco headed north on the 101, after crossing the Bay on the 92W bridge from Hayward, Calif., I came across the storied Candlestick Park. The Stick — home of so many legends — Joe Montana, Steve Young, to name two of the most obvious examples from ’49ers lore. There are a Lott […]

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What did they call yesterday? Wasn’t it “Small Business Saturday” or something like that, a round two of shopping — wedged in between Black Friday and Cyber Monday? By the way, I for one hate the term “Black Friday” when associated with the official retail beginning of the Christmas Holidays. I mean … the term […]

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Every year for the Thanksgiving turkey, I fire up the smoker out on the balcony, well within the reach of the Wi-Fi hotspot here at the international headquarters of PingWi-Fi.com. This year is no different, except that a cold front moved in around 6 a.m., plunging temperatures down from the 80s in Fort Worth yesterday […]

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In this the final installment of the Down In New Zealand series, I must start by getting several things off my chest. First of all, New Zealand, you should seek new PR/marketing counsel! There are so many wonderful things and places — at least on the South Island where I toured — that I think […]

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So how ’bout this hotel, The Marque? Well, it wasn’t until my third or fourth night in my room that I noticed the earthquake damage in the room, up along the wall in the corner and above the artwork near the desk. Had that been there before? I don’t know … perhaps not. Because, almost […]

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After surviving the torturous flight and the airport interrogation, we threw our bags into a Kiwi version of a Toyota — yes with the steering wheel on the right side of the car — and headed into Christchurch. Cool little city — “The Garden City” as it is known. We saw some signs of earthquake […]

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