Today is one year since I went on my trip to the UK. One year ago, probably right this moment I was at Heathrow airport lugging my bags through the airport to get to the underground station. I remember it well. Here is the full UK set of pictures for those who haven’t seen them yet. Enjoy… comment… email me.
October 1, 2006
Briticism of the Week
Here’s a good British phrase for you yankees: Gobsmacked. If you don’t get it, allow me to define it for you. Gobsmacked: Adjective; With reference to being shocked by a blow to the mouth, or to clapping a hand to one’s mouth in astonishment. Yes, that’s a dictionary definition. Look it up if you don’t believe me. This is pretty much the reaction I had when I started talking recently
September 19, 2006
So… more on the changes…
Well, I did say there was more to the story. There is, but not a huge amount. Truth is, I wrote up yesterday’s entry yesterday morning, got busy and ended up letting in languish until yesterday evening… today I’ve just been really busy but I’ve finally gotten around to typing something up. Anyway, the Wednesday morning (last Wednesday), a colleague of mine swung by my desk. He looked at me
September 18, 2006
All Change
Well, I did it. After a lot of deep thought and sincerely mixed feeling I have given my two weeks notice at Citi. It was one of those things where there was no specific pressing need to leave, nor was I looking for another opportunity. However, as seems common in this industry an apparently good opportunity presented itself to me unsolicited. I’ll be honest, at first I was going to
September 12, 2006
The Human Memory and Triggers
It’s amazing how the human mind works, isn’t it? We can be going about our own business, doing whatever we do during a day and suddenly a single instant can change everything radically. Often we will encounter a trigger; something that makes us sit up and take notice, to remember something that maybe has lain dormant in us for some time. It’s a weird experience, and one that can throw
September 10, 2006
Life tend to throw curve balls
This last few weeks has been strange for me. Interesting, but at the same time rather worrying. It’s by now no secret that Citigroup is laying off a lot of their IT people. This is part of Mitchell Habib’s “NAIT” initiative. While I agree and sympathize with the stated objectives of the whole initiative, I have to admit that I find myself philosophically opposed to the methods he’s using. Basically,
August 26, 2006
Four Days with the Macbook Pro
Well, I did it. As I said in my earlier posting, Im switching to an Apple Macbook Pro. Well, this week I placed the order and went ahead and bought myself my first Mac laptop. So after four days with the Macbook Pro, whats my feeling so far? Well, its a really nice little machine. I love the wide, bright and easily readable screen as well as the keyboard that
August 13, 2006
Switching Gear(s)
This is it, I’m finally going to do it. I’m going to switch. For those unfamiliar, Apple had a big marketing campaign about two years ago now to “switch”, i.e. to change from the Windows platform to the Mac platform. This campaign actually met with a modicum of success, at least in part based on the integration Macs have with the very successful iPod. Sure, you’ve got iTunes on Windows
July 4, 2006
Fourth Lament
I don’t know if anyone really realizes how alone one can be at this time of year. It’s the 4th of July, and to me this is actually one of the toughest times of year. I came to this country almost 11 years ago now… so this is now 10 times I’ve lived through the 4th of July. It’s interesting, and it’s also sort of depressing. Even my wonderful wife,
May 20, 2006
Oh, and technical stuff
I almost can’t believe I had to do this, but I’m so tired of “spam comments” being posted to this blog that I’ve written a little cron job that’ll erase every comment nightly in the database that contains a hyperlink. So if you’re going to comment, don’t put any links in your posting! You have been warned 🙂