At a time when most kids his age are filling out applications for summer jobs at restaurants and mini-golf courses, 18-year old high school senior Nathan Dinapoli has already started his own business. After taking business courses at Concord High School, Dinapoli created Triplet Computers, a company that specializes in home computer and network repair. With his own Web site, Dinapoli might be on track to be the next computer mogul.

Director John Sefel says folks who have seen rehearsals of Ghostlight?s Japanese version of Hamlet say they are ?shocked? at how easy it is to follow. The characters speak Japanese, the narrator speaks English, much of the story is told wordlessly using visuals and original music, and it runs just over an hour. Japanese coach Anja Parish helped performers and edited Sefel?s translation. (No, he doesn?t speak Japanese.) .

Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church?s annual spring lamb barbecue is not just about lamb.

Ask anyone who regularly attends and they?ll tell you, a lot of the people who show up to graze and kibitz, also come to see George Moulis ? after all, it?s his recipe that makes the lamb shimmy on the skewer.

The big excitement this weekend is Barry Bonds coming to Fenway Park for the first time in his great and now tainted career. This is a big deal because, barring injury or an unforeseen indictment of some kind, he?ll pass Hank Aaron?s record 755 for most home runs all-time in baseball history sometime this season.

Here?s to the first gadget that really captured the hearts and minds of geeks everywhere: the light bulb.

Before the incandescent bulb, doing stuff at night required fire, either on top of a candle or using a wick and liquid fuel of some kind. Naturally, these solutions were dangerous and often inconvenient. The light bulb uses a heated filament to convert about 2 percent of the electricity it consumes into visible light.

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