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Can you imagine non-stop luxury travel at sea? This is it! A life of exploring every exotic corner of the globe, experiencing myriad different cultures, then returning to the comfort of your own home, sleeping in your own bed and waking up to your own belongings every day? There’s only one way to experience this way of life and it’s called “The World”. It’s the largest privately owned residential yacht on earth. This lifestyle has to be seen to be believed and only a select few get to experience all it has to offer. I visited and now I’m thinking hard.     A 200 passenger list After embarking, the first thing that struck me was how few people there appeared to be onboard despite the fact that at least 200 were on the passenger list. But this is not a cruise ship temporarily lodging hundreds of holiday makers; this is a gracious home housing a choice number of quietly powerful people who have chosen this private adventurous and enviable lifestyle.   The ship Read more…

At $600 a pop I must be mad, I say I am not a crazy about Apple. I have strong feelings about the company mainly because they have taken my grandchildren from me. Since the kids acquired iPods, iPads and iPhones, I have turned into a lonely man with no one to talk to. I miss the walks up the road with a grandchild at my side, holding hands and chatting about nothing. These days their little hands are always busy with some infernal instrument that I cannot operate and do not understand. I cannot believe how devoted they are to these expensive toys and I am stunned at the amount of time spent talking about them, even when they’re not holding them.         A new iPad Now there’s a new iPad. There are already a lot of negative comments about the new iPad that Apple introduced over the weekend: It gets too hot, it’s a data hog, it eats its way through a months bandwidth allotment in minutes and it sucks up more of the tablets storage capacity just to look good, etc., etc. I guess a l Read more…

Don’t miss this opportunity! Its beyond imagination! No one picked the six correct numbers in the latest multi-state Mega Millions lottery game, sending the jackpot to a record $476 million for the Friday drawing.   Tuesday nights jackpot was $363 million, fed by weeks of drawings without a top winner. The previous record jackpot in the Mega Millions game was $390 million in 2007, split by two winners in New Jersey and Georgia.   In Tuesday nights game, 47 players came very close, matching 5 of the 6 winning numbers. Each of those tickets is worth at least $250,000.   Mega Millions is played in more than 40 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.   The winning numbers Tuesday night were: Nine, 19, 34, 44 and 51. The Mega Ball was 24. That should enable you to calculate the winning numbers!

Americans plunked down about $1.5 billion on the biggest jackpot in history No, it wasn’t me that won the mega jackpot of $640 million. I never even bought a ticket in the end. What happened is that I got caught up in my own dream and never made it to the ticket kiosk. Like every other American, I read about the giant payout and lapsed into a sort of self-induced semi-coma thinking about all that money.   Small start Actually, I started small, making believe that I had won one million dollars. At that point I spent time thinking about my new car. The new Chev? Maybe a Jag? How about lashing out and buying an Aston Martin for about $280,000. I mean I would still have considerable change… I tried to imagine what that car would look like standing in my driveway and then I understood I needed a bigger jackpot; my new house with the fancy driveway would cost more than I had. I upped my win to $2 million.   Read more…