Indoor Skydive, Roosendaal

This is something I have wanted to try for a very long time, and I am not sure where it even came into my knowledge base. I have some recollection of speaking to someone at Life Mastery in 2001 who was familiar not only with the indoor sky dive experiences but also understood how they evolved over time with the modern ones being safer due to solving the issues of losing up draft around perimeter found in the original concepts.

Fast forward to March 23, 2010 at Indoor Skydive in Roosendaal, The Netherlands and my chance to experience it finally came. I was with a business group and the first task was to go upstairs to get suited up for the flight. All loose articles out of pockets, etc, check. Flight suit, check. Helmet, check. Goggles – wait, what the heck are these things? Basically a piece of thin plastic that has some folds in it to bend into a semi-goggle shape with a small adjustable bungee cord attached. Okay, they fit on my head but aren’t these things going to be ripped off my face in the 170 mph wind? Obviously they have done this before so, “Have faith,” I tell myself.

All dressed up and ready to go we all entered the training room where the instructors gave us an overview of what to expect and what to do. The good news I found out somewhere between getting through the front door and arriving in the training room is discovering that this is going to be a one-on-one experience in the tunnel – yourself with an instructor. The bad news was being in the training room where the primary language was Dutch. Though some of us (like me) knew no Dutch, I would say most of the group did, so it was humorous to listen to what seemed to be like three minutes of the instructor speaking in Dutch. He would speak, make gestures, most of the room would laugh, etc. Then, he would pause at the end of the teaching segment and say, “Now for the English version. When I move my fingers like this (holding two fingers up and separating them) it means to move your legs out.” Ah, yeah, that was the entire English translation for that part and he quickly moved onto the next key point, again, in Dutch.

You see it is not rocket science by far and the problem is that in the tunnel (as in space) no one can hear you scream (or speak) so everything is done through sign language. It is not much to learn quantity wise but when your brain is on overload to begin with, and you only get a few precious understandable words for each movement, it is all a bit overwhelming.

So, again, obviously they have done this before so, “Have faith,” I tell myself.

With our training done we entered the airlock and headed into the tunnel area. There was a queue up on the monitor screens that showed who was up and each of us would get a one minute turn in the tunnel, three times total. Seeing the people go before me there was certainly nothing to panic about – the bottom line here is that no matter how crazy the concept of entering a 170 mph wind might seem no one was even close to getting bounced around in any violent or dangerous manner.

When my turn came I entered the doorway to the tunnel. The doorway itself is an odd experience as it is alway open and does not seem to have any type of discernible event horizon, yet there is not much wind coming out of it, and there is certainly a lot of wind inside of it! You fall forward… Did I say “fall”? I have no idea what the word for it is but somehow you lean into the tunnel and you are immediately lifted into a horizontal position quite effortlessly. That, however, was the easy part.

Once in the tunnel it was difficult to understand the feedback of moving your body parts around but the instructor did a great job of helping compensate for your idiocy. There were times when you found yourself headed straight for the wall – but at a speed where just putting out a hand was all that was needed to keep safe. There were times when you found yourself floating to the bottom of the floor – and you just did not understand why this was happening. Most precious, however, were the times when everything seemed to be going just right and you were able to take in the brief moment of total peace flying around in violent rush of air.

So, the big question for anyone who has not tried it would be of course what was it like. The crappy answer is the only way to find out is to experience it in person. Though it may seem like a cop out for the most part it is true for no matter how accurately I might describe my own experience I am sure your perspective will be completely different. For me there was absolutely no sense of falling. (Which is not surprising given that you are staying relatively in the same place in regard to the floor) There is certainly a lot going on around you as the 170 wind is something I do not believe you would experience anywhere else. (At terminal velocity it is humorous to see the contortions on people’s faces!) Maybe my SCUBA background and zero-G experience has given me at least some reference points to make it more comfortable but none the less I think I would do better taking everything in the next time around.

The minutes lasted for what seemed to be a long time but not long enough to really learn anything. Next time I hope for an experience where the newness has worn off at least a little bit and I could spend more time understanding how to fly. If I could find one of these places more locally I might just be in trouble getting other things done as I spend a lot of time there. To see the way the instructor could fly around when our fun was over is what dreams are made of…

…and no, the goggles did not get ripped off my face!

April 7th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Experiences | Leave a comment

The Netherlands, March 2010

Traveling on business with some pleasure mixed in offered a chance to take in some of the offerings of the Netherlands that I have either never seen or have not been back to in many years. Here are a few of the notable items from the trip…

Amsterdam

Take a canal tour. I guess if you do research you might find a difference between all of the offerings but hopping on any one will still give you an incredible overview of the city from the unique perspective of traveling almost under it. Due to the omnipresent nature of the canal system you get a chance to touch on almost every important landmark you might wish to visit while spending time there.

Not having enough time left before the NEMO museum closed (for a visit there to make sense) we decided to take a tour of the Amsterdam which is currently docked next door to the NEMO. How 203 crew, 127 soldiers, and 5 passengers could ever fit on the ship, never mind be fed by the extremely small cooking area we saw, is amazing. If you have the time to take a self paced walk through it is an interesting detour from the surrounding area.

The Red Light District is a must see if you are in the city. There is nothing more visible than you would see on a beach in the summer so it is relatively safe from that perspective and more dependent on your personal views of the subject especially if you are traveling with family. What I find amazing is that extensive tours are available. One must learn a lot about the entire subject on a tour that lasts for two hours and does not, obviously, partake in the service!

Walking the The Red Light District

I am not, but if you are into cannabis you can of course find it here in all forms. Yes, it is available in the coffee shops more surprisingly you see it in candy, drinks, and even in seed packages amongst the floating flower market. Even more interesting was seeing bags of mushrooms with bar graphs depicting the types and magnitudes of the different mental effects they would produce. With all of this available you would think you would see more people acting strange on the streets but from my perspective you would have better luck finding people doing odd things in New York or Los Angeles.

A Typical Shop View

On the more serious side the Anne Frank house is a must visit. Order tickets on the internet to avoid the long queues and take in a journey back in time as you visit the rooms she hid in with her family and was later joined by the van Pels family. I was amazed by the amount of information and photos from her life and struggle that have survived. The ultimate horror was fact that she passed away in the concentration camp only one month before its liberation not even knowing her father was still alive.

The Anne Frank House

Madame Tussauds is worth a visit. Though there are a few of the figures that look a little waxy most have eyes that stare into your soul as if they were real. I was surprised by the openness of the exhibits and the encouragement in some areas to pose with the figures for photos. There is one scary diversion that the faint at heart can bypass. While it does not seem to fit into the overall theme of the museum it is still a fun detour none the less.

George W. Bush

Yes, a bit on the cheesy side but with that said still worth a visit is the Heineken Experience. See the historic brew room, become a virtual bottle of beer, and learn as much as you would ever want to know about the history of the brew.

The Historic Brew Room

Finally, if you are looking for a fabulous place to eat check out Casa di David for an amazing Italian meal.

Casa di David

Madurodam

It is a must see if you can make there for as it is said on their website:

For almost 60 years Madurodam has been the smallest city in the Netherlands. Canals, gabled houses and all kinds of other typical Dutch scenes: the miniature city offers you the highlights of the Netherlands on a scale 1:25.

Madurodam

Kinderdijk

The Netherlands is famous for its windmills. Today there are still more than 1.000 mills. Nowhere in the world you will find as many windmills as near (the Dutch village) Kinderdijk. Around 1740 no less than 19 sturdy mills were built here. They have been well preserved to the present day.

Pumping water to reclaim land and manage what has already been reclaimed is what built most of the Netherlands. Learn about how this was done in the days long before modern forms of power by visiting a windmill.

Kinderdijk

Tilburg

Okay, so if you do not speak Dutch, or at least know someone who can be a tour guide, this one might be also a stretch… Tagged as the strangest zoo in the Netherlands on their web site Dierenpark De Oliemeulen is an interesting place to visit to see a variety of animals including birds, monkeys, spiders, and especially a wide variety of reptiles. You even have a chance to touch a snake and hold a while listening to one of the several talks about the animals at the zoo.

Holding the Tarantula

Delft

For years I have been familiar with the amazingly detailed blue and white delftware. In visiting the De Porceleyne Fles factory, founded in 1635, it was fascinating to learn a little bit more about the history and also understand why the original pieces are so expensive. With only a handful of master artists under the roof all of the designs they create are hand drawn onto the raw works that are turned into what we see as the final product through various layers of process and of course a lot of heat. If you are in town, take a tour, buy a piece from the source, and if you want – learn how to create a tile of your own.

De Porceleyne Fles

Okay, unless you are traveling with a large group, and make plans ahead of time, Stadsherberg de Mol is not a place you are going to get to from a walking tour. With that said, however, it is worth a note simply because it was a lot of fun and, at least for someone writing and living in the US, a very unique experience. What is it? For those familiar with Medieval Times there is some cross over with the time period, having dinner, and eating with your hands, but that is where the similarities end. Here you sit down to a meal where you are entertained by people playing a couple of parts from the period including slight of hand, music, fortunate telling, and so on. If that was not enough add being dressed for the times and playing period games in competition with the rest of the people in the room. It all makes for a welcome detour well away from present day done in a welcoming atmosphere that even made this non-Dutch speaker comfortable.

Medieval Games at Stadsherberg de Mol

April 5th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Travel | Leave a comment

Creating a DOS Boot CD for a PC

It has been years since I faced the need to boot a PC without Windows up and running, in order to do some kind of hardware flash, and yesterday I decided to take the plunge. I had several Western Digital WD2002FYPS 2TB hard drives that were giving me fits and the information posted about a firmware update to go from 04.05G04 to 04.05G05 seemed like it would be worth a try.

I needed to run a file called 0405G05.exe in DOS with a file called 0405G05.bin in the same directory. At first I remembered that Windows XP would format a floppy and install a bare bones system on it thus making it bootable. Great, but then when I added up the sizes of the two files I needed after booting I remembered 2.1MB is a lot bigger than a 1.44MB floppy. (It really has been a long time since being in floppy world!) I then poked around with the idea of booting DOS from a CD. I found an image of DOS on the internet for a boot CD and thought I could just add my files to it, which I did, but when I booted I did not see them there. (Yes, they were on the CD but not visible from DOS – go figure that one) Replacing the CD after booting with one that only had my files did not work either. (It would not read the CD for some reason) I then toyed with using a USB drive to boot from but when I plugged in my multicard reader (as I had a spare 16MB CF card in my desk) I saw it mount with 4 drives instead of just the populated one. So I moved onto a single flash drive but it was 8GB big and only seemed to be able to format in FAT32 instead of FAT/FAT16. Needless to say I wasted several hours on it and was to lazy to even try to start editing CONFIG.SYS files on a floppy trying to get it to boot with CD support.

I was a Mac user lost in PC land and needed a real (not virtual) PC to flash my hard drives. After trying all of the above I found something that worked, and worked quite well, so without further talk of my trials and errors here is the solution:

  1. Download UBCD. Be sure to download it from the lost list of links as you scroll down the page and not to click on any misleading Google ads before the real downloads.
  2. Extract the files from the .iso into C:\UBCD. On a Mac this is easy (and the way I went about it), if you are stuck in PC land WinImage might be a good option.
  3. Extract the files you want to add into a directory within C:\UBCD\DOSAPPS. For the Western Digital firmware update I created a WD directory and placed 0405G05.bin and 0405G05.exe within it.
  4. Create an iso with the following commands:
    5. C:
CD \UBCD\TOOLS\UBCD2ISO
UBCD2ISO C:\UBCD C:\UBCD40.ISO
  5. Burn the iso image to a CD with your favorite burning software
  6. Boot from the CD and navigate down the following prompts:
    7. DOS/Linux Boot Disks
DOS Boot Disks
FreeDOS Boot Disk V3.40
  7. Just hit Enter at all of the prompts to accept the defaults
  8. When you finally get to the DOS prompt:
    9. T:
CD \DOSAPPS\WD
0405G05

Done! I wish Western Digital would just create a bootable iso for the flasher but without this shortcut available at least I now have a method in place for doing it again if needed, and yes, I am glad I still keep a PC hardware box in the house. Besides being a game host for the kids it still serves a cause when the hardware needs to be called on to work its ancient magic.

January 5th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Computers | 14 comments

New Year’s in Portsmouth, Rhode Island

I am writing this as snow is starting to fall, keeping warm with the family inside. Of all places Portsmouth may seem like an odd place to be to start the new year, at least for us. We have no family, nor friends in the area, and the only connection of coincidence was going to a Wealth Mastery seminar in Newport in 1999. It is, however, our second year here for the new year and we are having a wonderfully quiet time at Carnegie Abbey when literally no one else seems to be around. More importantly, it is a time to disconnect from the work desk, the mail, the ‘to do’ list of home, and take a break even while still obviously connected to grid – connected enough, that is, to take a break, yes, a break, and write this.

So, if you do find yourself here at this time of year, what is there to do while enjoying an off season pause? Here are a few suggestions you may not run into without some help…

Go see the seals. What? Yes, the seals in Narragansett Bay from November through April are viewed from tours run by Save The Bay. They come here in search of warmer waters from Canada and Maine, and being free from natural predators in the bay it gives them a safe home away from home.

Get some Thomas Tew Rum. In 1872 the last rum distillery in Rhode Island closed down. It was not until 2007 when the Newport Distilling Company opened to revive the tradition. Last year the vintage I purchased was from barrel #11 and this year it is from barrel #20. I am glad enough people have not found it yet for it to be sold out!

Ever wanted to visit a battleship? BB-59, the USS Massachusetts, is docked at Battleship Cove and there is a surprising amount of the ship open to explore. Depending on your level of interest you could get lost in the maze of its belly for hours. Along with the big guns there is the submarine Lionfish, the destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., and several other things to see while there. (…and, yes, this is in Massachusetts, not Rhode Island but being 15 minutes away let us forget the state line)

Some of the mansions are open for tours this time of year as well. “Music, tours, and spectacular decorations highlight the celebration of Christmas at the Newport Mansions. We invite you to make holiday memories with your family by visiting The Breakers, The Elms and Marble House, all decked out for the holidays.” All decked out is a little misleading as it is impossible to completely prepare 65,000 sq. ft. in a single home for tourists during the holidays, never mind three large homes, yet it is still worth the visit.

Finally there is the food. For the places that are open during this quiet time it is easy to both get around and get in even in downtown Newport. See my Yelp reviews in Newport, Bristol, and Tiverton for the places we visited this year.

Happy New Year!

-JR

December 31st, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Travel | Leave a comment

Charitybuzz.com, Caveat Emptor!

This is an update to the full entry below for as of December 18 this matter seems to be finally solved. It was interesting that the day after I posted my frustration on the 14th I was contacted by [PersonB] who immediately posted a credit to my credit card and checked in on a daily basis until the credit finally hit my account online. (And thus I called the credit card company to stop their own investigation) I was wondering if this was some kind of coincidence but the final message I received showed it was not:
Charity went out of business and is now under the investigation of attorney general.  We treasure our bidders and we really paid everyone who supported that charity funds back from our  own pocket , after we forwarded thousands of dollars to the charity itself,
My CEO has the biggest charitable heart in the world and would not want to hurt any bidder financially
Maybe that part will make your blog :-)
thank you and Happy Holidays
[PersonB]
Operations Manager
Needless to say I am happy the matter is finally closed out, I am sorry to hear they got burned by a charitable organization, and I am also disappointed by the amount of effort needed to resolve this.
So, for any readers that took the time to read this entire history the question is, if you were me, would you use their service again?

This is an update to the full entry below, for as of December 18 this matter seems to be finally solved. It was interesting that the day after I posted my frustration on the 14th I was contacted by [PersonB] who immediately posted a credit to my credit card and checked in on a daily basis until the credit finally hit my account online. (And thus I called the credit card company to stop their own investigation) I was wondering if this was some kind of coincidence but the final message I received showed it was not:

Charity went out of business and is now under the investigation of attorney general.  We treasure our bidders and we really paid everyone who supported that charity funds back from our  own pocket , after we forwarded thousands of dollars to the charity itself,

My CEO has the biggest charitable heart in the world and would not want to hurt any bidder financially

Maybe that part will make your blog :-)

thank you and Happy Holidays

[PersonB]
Operations Manager

Needless to say I am happy the matter is finally closed out, I am sorry to hear they got burned by a charitable organization, and I am also disappointed by the amount of effort needed to resolve this.

So, for any readers that took the time to read this entire history the question is, if you were me, would you use their service again?

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Anytime I have a chance to meet someone doing something interesting I take it. I do this especially if the ‘something’ is way outside of the world I normally work in. Opportunities come from all sources, and in today’s world where one manages to find out the oddest of things from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc, you truly never know where you are going to find them. Over the past five or so years I have also taken advantage of special experiences offered via charitable donations for various outstanding causes.

A lot of the time these charity donated experiences come through an auction process that is not directly run by the charity itself. Cmarket.com seems to be one of the most basic places where this can happen. To me their service is really just a type of eBay where you do not have much contact with cMarket itself. You see something you like and if you win it you find yourself almost immediately in direct contact with the organization that offered the item for bid. I have not used it that much but the times I have everything went as smoothly as I would expect and I was never disappointed.

Charity Folks is a real a class act. For some reason I associate this business with Chevy Chase (of whom I am not a big fan) and after some research online (meaning five minutes of poking around) I could find nothing to confirm or deny this connection. In addition to the items up for offer on their web site they also have a wish section where if you have a specific desire they would do their best to connect your offer to the people in their network that just might be able to make it happen.

So let us move on to the real subject of this blog entry. I have used Charitybuzz a couple of times and, though I still would not rate them as high on service as Charity Folks, they seemed to be a reliable organization that brings a winning bid through to a coordinated connection to the donor and ultimately the experience. That is they seemed to be a reliable organization until now. What follows is the factual detail of a recent encounter I had with them and it all started with a winning bid on January 7th, 2009.

Lot #: 85408

Lot Title: Spend a Day on the Set of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Starring Nicholas Cage

Charity Name: The Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Description: Includes: a full day visit to the set of The Sorserer’s Apprentice in NYC for 4 people in Spring 2009. Also includes a meet and greet with director, Jon Turtlebaub and other cast members.

Spend an exciting and full day on the set of Jon Turteltaub’s new movie, The Sorserer’s Apprentice starring Nicholas Cage in New York during the Spring of 2009. Jon Tureltaub directed Cool Runnings, National Treasure, Phenomenan and more. We know this will be an exciting day of filming plus you will meet selected cast members!

An Academy Award-winning American actor, Cage has also worked as a director and producer, through his production company Saturn Films. He has been nominated twice for an Academy Award as Best Actor in a Leading Role, winning the award for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas.

Hammer Price: X.XX

Shipping & Handling: 9.95

With my older son being interested in the industry I thought this could really be an amazing day to see a real set in action and meet some people he would have seen in other roles he was already familiar with.

The next day I was contacted by Charitybuzz with the following email. I guess all I need to do now is sit back and wait!

Congratulations on winning the day on the set of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice from the recent Breast Cancer Research Foundation auction! We are waiting to hear back from the Director with a tentative production schedule and will be in touch shortly with an update. Please let me know if I can help with anything in the meantime as I am happy to do so.

Thanks so much for your support!

Best Regards,

[PersonA]
Auction Specialist

…and wait. When it got to be April 16th, 2009 I was wondering where an update was as the ‘Spring’ time frame was certainly upon us so I reached out and got the following reply:

I am looking into this again for you…stay tuned!

[PersonA]
Auction Specialist

Never heard anything back beyond that and on the 5th of May I read about an injury on the set (so obviously there was a set in current production) and not hearing anything immediately back from Charitybuzz I re-emailed them a couple of days later and managed to get the following reply:

We are working with the director to find a series of dates that will work. I apologize for the delay but we will take care of this for you. Often times it takes a bit to nail down a date but we will work it out.

Thank you so much for your patience.

All the Best,

[PersonA]
Auction Specialist

I replied I was worried that with summer fast approaching and committed vacations schedules it might become very difficult to schedule a mutually acceptable time to visit the set. Waiting to hear anything back I got wrapped up in the summer schedule and in August I checked the IMDB just out of curiosity and to my surprise the movie was noted as being in post production! What?! Thus I reached out to Charitybuzz again asked for a refund on August 5th and this was the reply I received:

I am so sorry for the delay in all of this. I will discuss with Alex how we can handle this. Of course, if we can’t get you on set, you would be entitled to a refund. Alex is out ill this week but I assure you that this will not be forgotten. You have been very kind and patient and we will make this situation right for you,

Thank you so much,

[PersonA]
Auction Specialist

The next day the real news came in the following email:

I apologize for delay in this case. The Donor of the experience as well as the head of the charity has been out of touch with us. I know his charity was going through financial problems and we are looking into this case for you. Just as Erin said we stand for absolutely everything we sell on line so If I can get that resolved within next few days we will issue you a full refund for the purchase. I apologize for the inconvenience – it is not a custom for our company not to be able to find a resolution for so long however we are strongly limited to what is being donated.

I will keep you posted on detail shortly , please feel free to ask any questions you might have.

[PersonB]
Operations Manager

Okay, now wait a minute. If they were indeed working with the Director to find a series of dates what would it matter if either the donor or the charity was ‘out of touch?’ Well, in any case, as much as I was looking forward to the set visit I was glad to hear I would be getting a full refund. I would have taken full responsibility if my schedule did not coordinate with the production schedule. I would have understood, if for some reason, the movie was cancelled, but it was not. What did happen was that I reached out numerous times to get information and not once did Charitybuzz contact me with an update unless I asked for one.

The ‘next few days’ turned into October 27th and after more emails and attempted calls to a full voice mail box I received the following short email from [PersonB]:

Hi John we will. Process your refund on Friday. Thank you

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Great! I thought it was finally a closed conversation until I had to ask on November 11th how the refund was processed as I have yet to see anything. Once again, not getting a reply from [PersonB] I reached out to[PersonA] by phone and was told, after she spoke with [PersonB], that the check was now going to go into the mail. My reply was that this was the exact same thing I was told on October 27th so I had my doubts but will wait and see what happens. A follow up came just after the holiday on December 1st:

Your check went out Wednesday before thanksgiving for the full amount. Erin requested it a while ago and we were unable to send you a refund through charity as they went out of business therefore we issued you one directly from our pocket

Please excuse our delay and confirm when check is received.

With Warmest wishes and apologies for all inconvenience!

[PersonB]
Operations Manager

And, unfortunately and quiet expectedly, I sent out the following email a couple of weeks later:

It is now the 8th of December and I have yet to see anything come in the mail. I need a check by overnight courier by the end of this week or will need to take other action as emails and phone calls are obviously not working.

The amazing thing is I never heard anything past that last email which is now going on a week ago. I sent it to [PersonB] and copied it in on [PersonA] and [PersonC]. (I have no idea who [PersonC] is but they were copied in on some emails from [PersonB] so I wanted to be complete) In the completely off chance situation they were having trouble getting a hold of me I also added my full contact information to the email to be sure they had alternate method of contact. Yes, I have obviously edited out the actual names of the people in the emails as I really have no way to determine if it was their issue or something deeper in the organization that was wrong.

The reply? Well, as already noted – nothing, absolutely nothing! I have escalated the matter to my credit card company and hopefully will get resolution that way or I will be on the road to different routes. Should Charitybuzz refund something when the people they pay supposedly go out of business? I have no idea, but what any company should do, as does any individual with integrity, is to do what they say they are going to do. It seems pretty clear to me that at least in this case it simply has not happened.

I have no idea who The Breast Cancer Research Foundation is and whether or not they had, or are having, financial or other difficulties. I am also sure that most, if not all, of other the charities Charitybuzz works with are very reputable institutions that efficiently deliver funds to outstanding causes. As I said previously, I have used them in the past a couple times and when I did I was very satisfied. In fact without an exception, be it a Charitybuzz auction or from some or the other organization, I have always had my expectations exceeded when going on an adventure. Yes, always, and without an exception. When unique experiences meet charitable causes the result works, and works extremely well. It some cases the people I have met have become long term friends and in some cases even business partners.

When it comes to Charitybuzz, however, I do not see how I would be able to use their services again without a major shakeup in their operations. Maybe I am the only one who has suffered a problem but given the above I feel I have been lied to at least twice. What the true story is, giving yet another benefit of doubt, I do not know and Charitybuzz is certainly not talking.

So, if you are surfing the web doing a little background search before you bid and are looking for someone with a complaint, problem, issue, or challenge with charitybuzz.com then I offer you this one data point to add to your knowledge base.

In summary, and for little lesson in Latin, Caveat Emptor – Let the buyer beware.

December 14th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Experiences | 2 comments
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