Tag: Random
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A serious side to industry incumbents and their inability to innovate
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This past weekend, returning home from a trip to London with friends, on a whim I bought a copy of  November’s Practical Boat Owner (PBO) magazine, looking forward to some interesting boating reading in-flight. So it turned out, but what I didn’t expect was for it to provide blogging material on the topic of industry incumbents…
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Skiing in Formigal, Spain
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A couple of weekends back, my wife and I abandoned the children with their grandparents and escaped for a couple of days skiing in the Spanish ski resort of Formigal in Huesca. We stayed in a lovely modern hotel next to the spa in Panticosa. The spa was lovely! The mornings were rather cold, the…
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Sailing with Dolphins
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What an amazing surprise! We were heading out for a quite Sunday morning sailing in the Bahia de Gijon, when we came across a pod of maybe over 100 dolphins! They were everywhere we looked. We managed to get close enough to some for them to join us and play at the bows of the…
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¡Campeones!
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Great players. Great football. Great team. Congratulations España! Image credit to yonmacklein
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Testing BlogJet
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I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com I caught the tip from Gia Lyons “About” page, hadn’t heard of the tool before, so thought I’d check it out given my issues installing Windows Live…
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America’s Cup set for March 2009
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As if we haven’t had enough contention since Alinghi’s successful defense, I can’t see this one stopping here. The America’s Cup between holders Alinghi and challengers Oracle is to be held in March 2009, a New York Supreme Court judge has ruled. Judge Herman Cahn ordered the series to take place in Valencia, Spain, or…