Notes in Samsara

I'm here in the Hotel Francs in Kahim Makuhari, and while preparing for my meetings (don't ask what time it is... when you're i...

Denial ain't a river in Egypt, as some folks say... Joe Carter thinks that the problem with the New Orleans massacre was a failure of co...

Nara, Japan: Murasaki is missing. This is a tragedy, as it is the only izakaiya restaurant in the immediate area that takes American Expres...

Really, Rhenquist has died , the entire world thinks we're a 3rd world country it seems- on the plane rides over, people were reading ...

Everybody else in the blogosphere can write about the terrible situaton in the south better than I can at this point, so I might as well try...

From the Financial Times (subscription required): European coutnries were yesterday preparing to release emergency stockpiles of petrol as t...

Apparently a regular at Kos thinks so ....I bet if I google the news he'll turn up right... Shall we see? Holy cow, he sure did . You...

Link You simply have no idea what this looks like from the UK. Terms like "helpless giant" are being thrown about by Rupert Murdoc...

Sorry Mossback , but Cindy Sheehan's right and you're wrong. We already have in the public record the equivalent 9/11 Aug 6 PDB for...

London- It's kind of odd to be in a London Hilton that doesn't have CNN, but does have Dubai TV. (It doesn't have al Jazeera eit...

I'm off on a rather extensive business trip (出張で). In a couple of days I'll be blogging from London, then Japan, then Beijing. Beij...

Seriously, though, Jesse Jackson's meeting with Chavez might be able to do some good . It can't hurt. And who knows? And maybe Al Sh...

I usually don't blog about technical issues, for the same reasons that flowers don't make noise. (Actually, I've never blogged a...

First words from live video feed from MSNBC on Katrina . Maybe they'll have updated the link by the time you read this but the very sill...

New Orleans is a cool city; it's too bad they're going to get at least partially slammed. It'll be bad because of its topography...

Richard Bennett correctly identifies the sublimation of sex as a rationale for suicide bombers; what he missed is the connection between sex...

This Kos diary says almost all of it. The only other thing I'd add: there are still media business types saying prices might go down. ...

I was but a young lad so it seems, when I left my first company after some 8 years of service...I remember a meeting I had with the VP of R...

Link Vanderbilt Uni psychologist David Zald and his team exposed [human] guinea pigs to a barrage of "disturbing" images interspe...

Oh, there'll be ups and downs, but the long term trend is up, up, up. Yes, part of ihe story is peak oil, about which nobody's doing...