An Expat in London

2009

December 154
November 136
October 266
September 152
August 147
July 127
June 126
May 88
April 94
March 73
February 154
January 116

2008

June 114
May 161
April 143
March 1
February
January
Last two weeks have been phenomenal, work & personal. Now relaxing Sunday night on deck w/...
May 31st
Am sitting on shady side of road but by dumb luck, my chair is perfectly situated where sun reflects...
May 31st
Long day walking all over sunny London but highlight was lovely lunch, macaroni & cheese and 3...
May 30th
Doing the London tourist parade today, in Westminster Abbey now and then to Buckingham Palace
May 30th
Gorgeous, hot day in London. Taking late, small lunch break to catch some sun in Bloomsbury Park.
May 29th
RT @rgreenblatt: Thoroughly enjoyed watching national spelling bee live at Grand Hyatt, but probably...
May 29th
BBC just said that Time Warner AOL merger was one of the worst mergers of all time. (via...
May 29th
RT @sacca: Thanks to @tonyhawk for inviting me and @ev to hang. Such a sharp, sincere, cool dude. He...
May 27th
Blogging “Paris & French Open” http://tinyurl.com/qfa9au
May 27th
Hanging out in St. Germaine area of Paris, having late breakfast & hoping my French Open ticket...
May 26th
About to leave cloudy London for hopefully sunny Paris via Eurostar. Complimentary FT &...
May 25th
Super excited, headed to Paris tomorrow, dinner cruise on Seine, then French Open on Tues. For my...
May 24th
Jim Collins, author of Built to Last & Good to Great, has new book coming out on why companies...
May 24th
Love Japanese tourists. Taking photo of roses in someone’s private garden, she reaches over...
May 24th
On way to the Cotswolds with Mom and Step-Dad. Should be a beautiful, sunny day in the English...
May 24th
Ever since Amsterdam, I’ve been getting Facebook status emails all in Dutch, hmm…
May 24th
Beautiful sunny Bank Holiday weekend. Usually rains so without bad weather I’m not sure what...
May 23rd
Is there a better song to fall asleep to than @imogenheap’s ‘Must Be Dreaming.’...
May 22nd
RT @goldsteinkaren While you were gone I wrote something about authenticity on the web that featured...
May 22nd
The good tunes keep on rolling: Earth, Wind, & Fire’s ‘September’ Was a Whitey...
May 22nd
Forgot to say on Wed. that City Airport in London is the best airport experience I’ve ever...
May 22nd
Late night bus home and listening to MGMT’s ‘Time to Pretend,’ does it get any...
May 22nd
Bloke next to me on bus is doing more than the dozing head snap move, he’s got the entire...
May 22nd
Management Tip: Is It Time for Your Organization to Tweet? http://ow.ly/8uCG (via @HarvardBiz)
May 22nd
Left ofc. early b/c power went out so enjoyed sun setting on Cheshire St. rooftops...
May 22nd
CEB’s new Sales & Marketing YouTube spot: Are financial crises unpredictable? Maybe not w/...
May 21st
From last night (no wifi)— Wandering around Amsterdam late night, amazed how busy it is. Canal...
May 21st
Back in home sweet home London, sunny and 20, and only 2 days before 4-day weekend (Bank Holiday...
May 21st
Listening to KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic podcast from April 30th w/ Ben Lee in-studio...
May 20th
Dropped Ben Lee for Moby guest appearance on KCRW from few days ago but laptop battery is low so...
May 20th
Mother of all ironies: Me, balding & shaved head, running to toliet w/ hairspray b/c of...
May 20th
Beautiful and sunny at Schipol Airport; hopefully the client meeting goes just as well
May 20th
What does it say about me that I’ve had to tie my tie in the back of a cab two days in a row...
May 20th
NYT showcase on NYT staff photographer Ozier Muhammad images of Harlem, from 1980s to present...
May 19th
Last minute Sales support trip to Amersterdam tomorrow. No flights back so staying at Swissotel,...
May 19th
For those who don’t get Twitter, think it’s hype, think it doesn’t have revenue...
May 19th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-17)
May 18th
Chris Anderson talking about how to save WIRED magazine, via NYT http://bit.ly/3siCX
May 18th
Watched the season finale of Lost tonight, FTW?
May 17th
Making bolognese sauce, doing laundry, & listening to Too Beautiful to Live podcast #tbtl. Life...
May 17th
What I Would Say to the MBA Class of 2009 http://ow.ly/6Uoo (via @HarvardBiz)
May 14th
Kanye West takes on Twitter in web rant. http://tr.im/lhWV (via @davewiner)
May 13th
Watching ‘Breaking Bad’ via AMC, sleeper TV hit that could be next Sopranos, The Wire....
May 13th
IMAX CEO RESPONDS says 90% of people on my comments disagree with me. We know that’s not...
May 12th
NYT on book piracy and Cory Doctorow’s response— my problem isn’t with piracy,...
May 12th
No better way to fall asleep than by listening to This American Life; episode #379 ‘Return to...
May 11th
How do you spell a bad night in food? Burger King & Haagen-Dazs. How do you spell a good night?...
May 11th
Bloke in next stall took call on mobile but hang up when a person entered bathroom- must not have...
May 11th
U.S. Military using iPhones & Touches in field for all sorts of purposes, diversity of apps is...
May 11th
WSJ article, Starting Over as an Entrepreneur http://bit.ly/nfPfk how many out there have taken the...
May 11th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-10)
May 10th
What snowboarding is about, the Longboard Classic http://bit.ly/q3WzN And if you don’t know...
May 10th
RT @NewsGang: Hand Shaking Is So Medieval. Let’s End It (from Michael Arrington)...
May 10th
Rocking Daedulus’s song ‘Make It So’ while reading Jarvis’ What Would Google...
May 10th
Watching 1981 classic Cannonball Run thanks to #TBTL suggestion. Can’t believe how cheesy it...
May 10th
Thx to Techcrunch glowing review, upgraded to the new Twitterific app. So far so good.
May 10th
Watching This Week in Startups w/ Seth Sternberg from Meebo, eating peanut butter from jar, &...
May 10th
Sunday reading: A Night Out With The Twitter Guys” (NY Times) http://bit.ly/LoA2C (via...
May 10th
In the line at Proud in Camden, anyone know how I can get on the band guest list? Queue is long so...
May 9th
http://bit.ly/nMu6U Jason Schwartzman interview, Phantom Planet founder, Rushmore actor
May 8th
What’s dark red, black & blue, & white all around? My sore back-side from...
May 8th
http://bit.ly/17uWoJ From South African colleague, SA surf (surfrikan) slang. Only knew...
May 8th
http://bit.ly/ISkJy Via C|Net, interview w/ BBC’s iPlayer chief. Bandwidth stats are...
May 8th
Off to Milton Keynes Snowdome for night of snowboarding, super stoked. Park riding is great way to...
May 8th
How to re-structure the IPO market, via NYT: http://bit.ly/wyCm3
May 8th
Good Thu. song to have on repeat: Pomplamoose’s song “La Vie En Rose”...
May 7th
2 funny, RT @azizansari: I’m hosting free rave at JetBlue Terminal 5 at JFK before I board...
May 6th
For the shred fans out there, RT @dlynch4: @cherbert Power assisted Snowboard Bag to be released...
May 6th
At Red Stripe Battle of the Bands at Kentish Town Forum. Waiting for Gomez but First Degree Burns...
May 5th
I have the snowboarding bug & this doesn’t help http://tinyurl.com/de2sty
May 5th
RT @azizansari Parks and Recreation officially picked up for Season 2. Lets...
May 4th
just loved Burial & Four Tet - Moth http://bit.ly/120lc0
May 4th
Since FAIL Dogs wouldn’t accept my submission,...
May 4th
Via Economist.
May 4th
Listen Listen
Re-blogged via irrevokable: “hard to find”, the american analog set love it when my itunes plays...
May 3rd
TIME’s video of Obama’s first 100 days in...
May 3rd
Read NYT article on Mine the Bird winning Derby & listening to Bon Iver while going home after...
May 3rd
RT via @dominccampbell and @codepo8: “Well there is a blog for everything:...
May 3rd
From a new favorite time-wasting FAIL blog of sorts:...
May 3rd
“We’re the south of the north and the north of the south and...”
— From the FT’s, Doing...
May 3rd
just loved Royksopp - Vision One http://bit.ly/1N0NqJ
May 3rd
Listening to the Monocle Weekly podcast, http://www.monocle.com/ . They recommended new Royksopp...
May 3rd
Why I like Brick Lane, hipster yet still random and creative. Band ‘12 Tone’ jamming on...
May 2nd
thx to @fredwilson ‘s Tumblr/Streampad music app, http://fredwilson.fm/, discoverd cool remix...
May 1st
Sitting on Sicilian Ave. near Holborn having a delicious lunch at Saffron and the London weather is...
May 1st
Understanding British language http://tinyurl.com/d6efad
May 1st