We've just moved offices and I have to say everything is not totally perfect. But it is pretty hard to complain when you view is like this:


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For one reason and another I've started up another blog. I'm focusing it mostly on very dull geeky things and my latest post is no different- a proposition to build out privately owned, publically subsidized last mile fibre to the node as financial stimulus.

Kris is 17 weeks pregnant and we just found out it is a boy! Welcome to the family my son.

It is with huge amusement that I listen to the end credits of the NPR: Planet Money podcasts when the credit comes through from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business:

Asking the question: What were you thinking?
(And as a bonus this comes at the end of podcasts about the financial crisis.)

After arriving in good time for my 9:30am flight I have moved from irritated to frustrated to furious over American Airline's handling of delays. 12:05pm now. Be nice to board sometime. Sadly this isn't my only AA flight today. (My original arrival time in Atlanta of 16:40 is a distant and fond memory now ( Read more... )

I'm on my way home again after a month in New York. I'd already be home except for a missing manhole cover ( Read more... )

I'm scheduling my last couple of weeks in New York for this trip and I was most amused that in Google calendar the example event text was exactly the thing I was scheduling: "Breakfast at Tiffany's". In homage to Audrey, no doubt like thousands of tourists every year, I thought I'd do a Coffee and Danish while window shopping at Tiffany's. Google ( Read more... )

So here is a long, possibly boring, discussion about the New York roadmap. More than most of my blog posts, this was written for me, not you. But you are welcome to read it. I won't mind if you get bored and stop reading ( Read more... )

New York is a walking city and walking around New York everywhere you go you'll see street vendors selling 'I (heart) New York' caps, shirts, pyjamas and anything else a tourist could possibly want. As time goes by I'm increasingly inclined to agree with the motto ( Read more... )

On Wednesday night I left work turned right rather than my normal left and went for a walk. I walked to the shoreline closest to work, along the shore to Hudson park then inland for a while and back up Broadway to home. In all 4 hours of walking. It was a fascinating walk because of the name recognition factor- the Monopoly moments. (Named after ( Read more... )