“Would the little kids skateboarding on platform three cease...”
— Voice over loudspeaker at a...

iSwitched (again)

Berlin — For years I used Mac, and then at the end of last summer I switched to an ultra-thin...

Deutsche Bahn building at Potsdamer Platz

Recently, this stain glass window attacked me.  I won.

Berlin mornings

“Regime change is purely an American invention.”
— Russian ambassador to Zalmay...

Apparently, there are two Schuyler Deermans in the world;...

Berlin at night: Where are all the people?

Recently, I took friends from Tel Aviv to see National...

Aroma in Berlin, "Coming Soon"

When in Tel Aviv, I really enjoy café hafooch.  One of my favorite Israeli coffee shop...

Photo 41

Thankfully, this is my off-week

Flying in Alabama

Reposting a friend’s photo-op with Barak.  :)  

Bush and OCS

"Digium is so random"

Direct Taiwan-China flights

“The European Cup is just like the World Cup, but only...”

The New Internet

Starbucks stock is way down; I’m hoping it’ll...

“I used Mac for three-and-a-half years. Recently, I bought a...”

Got Diplomatic Immunity?

China, Taiwan sign charter flight deal

Wikipedia, define tumblelog

A tumblelog (or tlog or tumblog) is a variation of a blog that favors short-form, mixed-media posts...

Fantastic *New* Feature

When I moved to Tumblr, I got several compliants about the lack of a true “archive.” ...

On a recent visit to Truphone at More London

Huntsville, AL — There was a power-outage at Digium on...

UAE may be first Arab nation to restore...

View from Truphone “towers” at More London

Bilboa is a pleasant city

Ouch!

Kastalienalle 7-9, 10405 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg

Mark Spencer and Jay Philip posing at Asterisk-Tag in...

Colors of India

Taxis in Mumbai

Flickr is not accessable from some parts of UAE.

Loves Chelsea

Berliners can't save Tempelhof

World’s tallest building: Burj Dubai, as seen from...

Wines of France

Three-timing Scottsman

The Koelner Dom in Cologne was the tallest building in the...

Delta and Northwest to merge

Le Louvre is astonishing at night.

Eurostar to Paris

 America’s popularity

I have green lockers in my apartment.

Lady Clinton on SNL

Euro hits record high against ailing dollar

There’s a woman in my neighborhood with a pig…...

Street train in Prague

“Sit back and relax while we do the rest.”
— TGSCOM, Inc.

MSNBC reporter aplogizes for Chelsea remarks

Bibliothèques sans Frontières

Paris — This the weekend, I caught up with the founder of Bibliothèques sans Frontières...

TSA has a blog, too

Bush in Jerusalem

Intel leaves OLPC

Hppy Nw Yr!

Europe expands passport free zone

Compromise

Fearless mice

Artic summers ice-free by '2013'

Early Santa sighting in Prenzlauer Berg over the weekend.

(One of) San Francisco’s biggest tourist attraction is...

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

“Please donate for marijuana research.”
— Sign of a homeless man, San...

“I’m not gonna lie, I want beer.”
— Sign of a homeless man, San...

My IBM--I mean, Lenovo--crashed

Schuyler: I'm seriously considering moving back to Mac.
Josh: When did you you decide this? And why?
Schuyler: When the IBM support technician said, "You should have stuck with a Mac, bro."
Josh: Haha.

Old school telephony in a market in Beijing. 

Sox Win, Sox Win!

Berlin—Last Saturday, I got caught up Air France’s crew strike. Tens of thousands of...

Air France continues... to strike

Welcome to Jordan

A Facebook First

As Facebook slowly takes over the lives of many of my ADULT friends, I can’t help but think...

Al Gore shares Nobel Peace Prize

Power fights

The Green Jobs

Uncle Sam wants to pay you...

BERLIN:  Fall has arrived in Europe’s new capital.

Peering through a gate on a side street in Bangkok.

Horse smuggled on flight from Germany to...

Music on Hold

At the moment, I’m on hold with a hotel, trying to make a last-minute reservation.  The...

:-)

Trying to look through the garden gates in Forbidden City.

Breakfast in America

For the past two weekends, I’ve enjoyed brunch at Breakfast in America in Paris’ Latin...

tomsshoes.com

NYC taxis strike over GPS requirements

Canadian tourist are on the rise; this one was found near...

US workers: World's most productive

Acts of kindness

PARIS — Yesterday, as I was climbing a rather large and crowded escalator in the metro, with...

Few events

There are few events in history I can voluntarily remember exactly where I was when they happened,...

Businesses See Green in Going Green

TEL AVIV:  My friend is a model… the dog that is.

BERLIN:  The new German parliament building

“Raise the taxes [in America] to $2 per gallon (more than...”
— Tom Fafard of Winnetka,...

A dog rescue

TEL AVIV — This afternoon, traveling on the Ayalon Highway, while on our way to a meeting, a...

Striking image of the Wailing Wall (center) and Dome of the...

Hummus in Jaffa

TEL AVIV—This week, Jordanian hummus guru Nihad Alhad is in Israel, opening a temporary hummus...

Arabic hummus in Israel

Sunset over volcanoes in San Quitin, Baja, Mexico.

That time of year again

August in Europe is nearly a dead month. At least one thing Europeans know how to do better than...

A view from the Israeli side of the Dead Sea.  Here, Jews...

Trouble in Second Life

Justine's 300-page phone bill

Driving through a missle range in southern Israel

Sleek new iMac

A lone camel in a south district of Israel

Ted's Beef with Big Media

The Western Wall (also called Wailing Wall) in Jerusalem

Dave's security screening

Agent: So if I go online and check this newspaper, I'll see your name?
Dave: Yes. I mean no, but you'll see my avatar name...
Agent: Hmm. OK, well is this your camera?
Dave: Yes.
Agent: Can I see a picture on it please?
Dave: Erm, no, it broke, like, this evening.
Agent: Riiiiiight...

MASADA (Israel):  Sunrise seen from on top of Masada.

Jerusalem Rocks!

Today I am sending this email to many of my friends in Israel with the hope of spreading the word of...

BERLIN:  Penguins at Berlin’s once world renown zoo. 

City Guide Tel Aviv

Jordanian, Israeli farmers' hopes take wing

TEL AVIV:  Jaffa Port is one of the oldest ports in the...

BERLIN: Knut has been receiving a lot of attention from...

SHANGHAI: China’s exponential growth has raised brows...

“The Live Earth concerts played strongly to people’s...”
— George Marshall via...

DUBLIN:  Reform has turned the Irish capital into quite a...

BEIJING:  What does that have to do with the price of eggs...

Exotic menu in Chinese restaurant

BANGKOK:  Rush hour in the Thai capital.

Companies go green

Planet in Peril: China

PARIS: I caught this bird in La Defensé as I was snapping a...

Malaga's historic cathedral

During the Americans’ revolutionary war, the Spanish living in Malaga, Spain were completing a...

Intel joins OLPC

Seventh oldest nation

Boeing's "Dreamliner" debut

RABAT: Friends Ken, Zac and Justin brave the angry North...

“Archivists are the new macho heroes of Washington.”
— Maureen Dowd, The New York...

"Message in a Bottle"

“Alive in Baghdad will be featured on ABC’s Good...”
— Alive in Baghdad Team

ALEXANDRIA:  With retro art displays, creative lighting and...

BBC journalist freed in Gaza

TEL AVIV: I saw a cute cat in Jaffa last Saturday. Rather,...