Another Monday…

Whew, was looking at some huge outer joins today. I really needed some more coffee! So, another week is starting. Rainy morning didn’t help. Further market slippage in Hong Kong and Toyko didn’t help either. Ho hum. Guess we all need to strap in and prepare for a very bumpy landing.
Wish I had more to [...]

Top 10 Albums of all time

Hard to argue against:
Pink Floyd “Dark Side of the Moon”
Rolling Stones “Exile on Main Street”
Bob Dylan “John Wesley Harding”
Led Zeppelin 4th Album
The Beatles “Abbey Road” or “Rubber Soul” or “Revolver” or “Sgt Peppers” – so hard to choose!
The Who “Who’s Next”
The Band “Music from Big Pink”
The Allman Brothers “Eat a Peach”
U2 “War”
Radiohead “OK Computer”
The Clash [...]

I just love Lotus Notes. Not.

God, could I have had a worse day with Notes. All bitching aside, and despite the fact that I hate Microsoft, Outlook 2007 rocked as a mail client (despite the suckiness of Exchange Server).
In other news, I am trying to understand my company’s deployment of Web 2.0. Being a vast company there are vast contradictory/complimentary/confusing [...]

Mantegna Expo

The Louvre has an extraordinary expo on about the 15th century master Mantegna. A must.
It would take about two hours to really do justice to this event but I only had about an hour (plus I peaked quickly at the Picasso/Delacroix/Femmes d’Alger expo on the 1st floor of the Denon wing…) so I did the [...]

Digg

I am still trying to understand whether digg and del.icio.us are redundant or complimentary. Perhaps a more web2.0-saavy reader will enlighten me. I suppose the rating system of “diggs” is pretty good but I also like the for: tags in del.icio.us.
Week 3 on the new job is going OK. Still trying not to drown and [...]

Avedon Expo

A quick belated review of the Richard Avedon expo at the Musée Jeu de Paume in Paris…
I visited this about 3 weeks ago and just now am getting around to blogging about it. There are about 200 photos from the entire career of this American photographer of fashion and poverty.
The first section of the exposition [...]

Middle of second week – treading water

So, middle of second week @ new job has come and gone. The laptop screen is now ghosting old windows under current ones and giving me really annoying vertical lines all across the screen. Yikes. And the remote access for my MBP is not working. According to Apani, it is my company’s VPN that is [...]