Tonight was dinner at the Japanese restaurant in the hotel, a very good Japanese restaurant. It actually turned out to be a very formal meal. There were five of us dinning this evening and we…
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Once again I have to address the rumours
She wanted to make this personal, and I don’t have too much of an issue with that, but feel once again I need to use this forum to respond to personal attacks and lies. To…
Movember 30th, at last…
I made it the full month! Through the itching, ridicule and looking like this on a couple of business trips in the last month. I really don’t think this form of facial hair suits me….
Movember, week 3
It’s been an interesting day, Tony Latham tweeted a link to Spinner.com that said the 100 Club in London may have been saved to live another day. Helped dad set up his birthday present, we…
Not quite Tom Seleck yet…
It’s now been a week since Movember started. My upper lip has made it to fluffy caterpillar stage and not started itching yet, but does look strange and required an explanation once or twice. It’s…
A couple of days in Houston
Houston has a special place in my traveling history. It’s not exactly a place I’ll get teary eyed and nostalgic over, but it’s an interesting city of contrasts. First my history with Houston; It was…
How prosciutto ruined economy class for me
Fly regularly and you probably have a wonderful on again-off again relationship with your airlines of choice. I used to fly considerably more, most of it long haul, but maybe 80% of it was on…
An awfully long tour…
On Friday the England cricket team leave for Australia. The first game is next week and the final game is not until February 6th. Between now and then they will be playing 19 games, and…
The numbers…
One seminar I sat through at BWE was playing with Google analytics. I spent a couple of hours looking at my numbers and putting together some custom scripts and charts. The results were fascinating. I…
The endless argument, Pele or Maradona?
They are, quite simply, the two greatest footballers of all time. Today the most famous footballer the game has ever produced, Pele turns 70th. Next Saturday Diego Maradona, who may be the best individual player,…