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There are the usual suspects and then there is the “Hot List”:http://www.cntraveller.com/Special_Features/The_Hot_List_2008/ which are new stylish hotels that Conde Naste has found. Here are some: Well there are the usual hotels like the Grand Hyatt (the pool!) or the harder to find Beijing Shangri-la, but Conde Naste found an interesting…

Well, given these destinations, “Travel & Leisure” has their 500 top hotels as well as “Conde Naste Traveler Gold List”:http://www.cntraveller.com/GoldList/2008/, so what’s in these areas. In “Anzac and the South Pacific”:http://www.travelandleisure.com/tl500/2008/region/australia-newzealand-southpacific, we have some obvious ones: In Australia, * “Langham Hotel”:http://www.travelandleisure.com/tl500/2008/hotel/langham-hotel-melbourne in Melbourne. It is normally a high A$500, which…

Well, another way to think about travel occurred to me while I was in Australia. Where an incredible hotel room that costs A$500 is not more like A$300 because of the Exchange rate shifts, so how about going to XE.com and finding out what countries have dropped the most compared…

A buddy of mine, said, hey, I don’t want to get stuck in a trip by myself, but I want to see the world a weekend at a time when I’m stuck somewhere far from home. So what am I going to do. Well, another 15 minutes and I found…

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They said it was coming in November, but no one seems to have it. “PC Magazine”:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335490,00.asp claims shipments started Tuesday November 25th. We’ll see 🙂 I’ve got my Canon EOS 350D and it has faithfully taken over 18,000 photos in the last three years (!!!), but now the lenses are…

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My buddy John says hanging with me is like living with Neo in The Matrix. Oh my goodness, this crash looks like the next depression. Ok buy ever book about the Great Depression and read them in a week. Need to understand electricity trading. Buy all the books. Read over…

This WordPress for the iPhone is so amazing. You can blog from your iPhone so now I can take hours to compose a long note. Or I can share the amazing things I see in ordinary life. While a 2mp camera is truly lousy. Remember the first Leicas were designed…

One confused friend once asked over and over why have a blog. Who is going to read it? Another dear friend said it like talking to me, isn’t it?. One colleague said it is like looking into Rich’s mind and it is *scary!?*. On this day after Thanksgiving Day, I…