June 29th, 2009 | Category: Bob Archer
Bob Archer
Greetings from the Finn Gold Cup in Copenhagen, Sailing has always been a great joy of mine, so when Olympic competitor and dear friend, Jonas “Hawkeye” Hoegh-Christensen told me that he would be racing in this year’s Finn Gold cup, I jumped at the chance to stay with him and watch...

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June 11th, 2009 | Category: Bob Archer
Bob Archer
Greetings from Margaritaville! I have come to believe that whenever you spend time with Jimmy Buffett, you are in Margaritaville. Jimmy and I met many years ago while surfing in Maui. After a long evening at a beach party, complete with us doing a guitar duet by the fire after a...

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May 29th, 2009 | Category: Bob Archer, Technology
Bob Archer
As many of you know, I have a real fondness for Havana. I’m happy to hear that it may be getting easier to travel there for Americans, but for know, I need to hop around a bit before landing in Havana. A bit of work for sure, but worth it...

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May 22nd, 2009 | Category: Bob Archer
Bob Archer
Cheers from Piccadilly Circus Ever since the 84 Summer Olympics in LA, I’ve been a big fan and dear friend of Olympic gold medalist Benita Fitzgerald Mosley. I was on the advisory board to help implement the high-tech traffic control system meant to head-off gridlock on the highways. It was a...

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May 12th, 2009 | Category: Bob Archer
Bob Archer
Man it is great to be home! I have semi- purposely been ‘off the grid’, helping my dear friend Nicholas Negroponte of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in India. We spent weeks touring elementary schools, talking to officials and explaining Nicholas’ great vision to bring computers every...

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April 1st, 2009 | Category: Bob Archer
Bob Archer
Skittles on TwitterSun famously proclaimed that ‘The Network is the computer’ in the nineties. Now Skittles can proclaim that ‘The Network is the website’. The addictive candy refreshed their website by essentially throwing it away and turing it over to the web. Not picking favorites in the Social Networking world, Skittles embraced...

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February 5th, 2009 | Category: Bob Archer
Bob Archer
20090205-screenshot_01jpgI make it a point to sample the local cuisine wherever I travel. Local wine is no exception. In fact, many times, I find myself enjoying dinner with a local vintner in the barrel room of the winery over take out from his or her favorite restaurant. My assistant does a...

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