MWC 2012 – Lookback at 2011
I'm looking forward to MWC 2012 this year - the excitement has being growing insanely for the past couple years, and it feels like 2001 again when the last mobile…
9/11 – My recollection of New York City
I sometimes look back at 9/11 and wonder if my memory of it has altered and if the reality was different than I recall. It was such a long…
MWC 2011 Observations
Following are some of my high level observations from Mobile World Congress 2011 Overall, the conference was incredibly large. I have not been for 2 years, but this year it…
FGM
Girl(fairly senior in an NGO here): FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) is very common around these countries because there are a lot of Muslims here. Me: ? What does Muslim have to…
Oscar drama – my 2 cents
Last night, we got ready for our Oscar party - just like home - except it's a day late, being re-broadcast on the Dubai channel at 7pm our time (it…
burgernomics
previously i wrote about the cost of living and metrics in other cities recently, i've been seeing other articles about it and it got me thinking about other indexes and…
Cost of Living
man - i just took a look at a recent Mercer report about the cost of living across of the world. Toronto is about 20% cheaper than NYC and more…
BA is gonna kick ACs butt…
Hopefully this means that the overall quality of flights will increase as well. I've flown BA between London and Toronto and also between London and San Francisco (and other american…
An Inconvenient Truth
so i had to post this. the idea that Al Gore had put together a movie which is basically just clips of him travelling the world giving powerpoint presentations about…
Liar, liar pants on fire…
This is too some company in the UK claims that that Brits are a bunch of explains why everything is so difficult over there. Everyone knows that everyone else is…