Wireless In Seattle

I got power! Sitting in a WIFI Starbucks having breakfast and catching up. So, I've decided that we Euros now do the American thing better than the Americans do it. There are so many things we have in the UK now that previously were USA only, that I think we do better. Like?

Salted AND sweet popcorn at the movie concessions, the little sauce tubs in McDonalds here are paper serve-yourself versions, in the UK you get the hygienically plastic sealed variety, we got Starbucks, we got Baby Gap, cheap good DVD's, great cellphone directory services, dare I say it better TV (quantity, content, fidelity and aesthetic) judging on what I've seen in the hotels here, our SUV's are better e.g. Land Rover, Merc, BMW & Porsche, having said that I WANT a Dodge RAM - is that the ultimate symbol of repressed manhood or what?, no turning on a stop signal - too dangerous and confusing, from what I can gather at least as cheap if not quite as far-spread and fast yet broadband. And US audiences laugh much more openly in cinemas, e.g. watched Matrix Reloaded last night and where UK audiences may have chirped or quietly chuckled at explicit humour in the movie, the US audience laughed at virtually everything that wasn't dead-pan serious, a phenomenon that was particularly disconcerting and eventually annoying, for me a least.

I really do think that I wouldn't have been saying this 10 years ago. I think us Euro's have actually nailed it, a fine blend of American culture with our own disparate cultures mixed in. Y'all be sure'n have a nice day, y'all.

Powerless In Seattle

Forgot to bring my UK to US power adapter. Which means my notebook has about 3 minutes use and my video camera's on its last legs. Unless I can find US power leads. Which also means I'm blogging this from a good old fashioned internet cafe thing.

Turner's Law

Forget Moore's Law. Forget Metcalfe's Law. This is your baby;

The size and mobility of a computing device is inversely proportionate to the insurance premium to cover against the likelihood of it being lost or misplaced.

As in "Oh dear, I think I've just lost our complete enterprise IT infrastructure down the back of the sofa, again." It's just very hard to lose a mainframe computer and the value associated with the information contained within it, and the valuable process efficiency it brings, simply by being where you left it the last time you used it, basically.