CARIBBEAN CRUISE NOTES

In the blog items above we will keep you posted via a daily log of our cruising experiences throughout January & February. The first ship is Royal Caribbean's Serenade of the Sea (see photo)... capacity is about 2,500 people, 962 feet long, 1050 cabins, 25 knot cruising speed and 858 crew. It was built in August, 2003. Donna and I look forward to your reactions or questions and comments as we travel. And say 'Hi' to our traveling companions, Aimee and Craig. Click here for a Caribbean slideshow.

BUSINESS FOCUS IN 2005

Focus - focus - focus. That's the watchword around here for 2005. We'll be aiming to focus on growth by serving the business community, where we have a proven service model, at a fair price. In fact, there's little doubt that our video-on-demand service (via the web) is among the most significant growth opportunities across the Internet, and we aim to do it well. So, we aim to FOCUS on business communications, where we have over 30 years of expertise in communications strategy, and where the needs of the enterprise are crystal clear.

UN-CLIMBABLE SUMMIT?

Earlier this year we had the priviledge of recording the super-human story of Todd Skinner, who had scaled the 29,000 foot Trango Tower in the Himalayas -- over twice the height of Mt. Rainier in Washington State. His motivating speech was aimed at a management team that would face significantly lesser hurdles physically, but would take heed of the attitude of a winner, whose advance team returned to base camp with the news, "The rock is unclimbable!" To which he replied, "Just how unclimbable is it?" He says: "The summit is nothing more than a place to see where you can go next." If you are looking for a great speaker, with a story to remember the rest of your life ... check out his web site at: http://www.beyondthesummit.com/accomp.html