I have not had a good week. An industry conference/exhibition (usually crazy solar fun!!!) in Vegas was ruined by sleeping funny on the flight over, leaving me in constant pain from shoulder and neck. The NHS website says these things pass and I should take painkillers and take it easy. The thirty meetings were not easy ones and I have had to join ( Read more... )

I am in Russia with my Ukrainian sales colleague Tetyana. We are not discussing politics with anyone. It is not the best trip we've ever made, as Russia is about ten years behind the rest of the world on renewable energy and (possibly reasonably) sees no reason to catch up ( Read more... )

I've come back from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and although this was one of my worst business trips ever in terms of seeing nothing but hotels and offices, I like to keep notes on what I thought of these places. This time I did not see much interesting wildlife at all beyond a few birds and stripy sea fish ( Read more... )