tuesday, must be new york...

great to have spent the weekend at home, notwithstanding a rather brutal family-wide bout with the flu - 24 hour variety thankfully.

sitting in the hilton in westchester listening to the hoyas-st john's game on-line. not televised, sadly. a nostalgic feeling actually. not that i ever sat around as a kid and listened to sports on the radio, but my dad would have a game or another tuned in while we were driving to practice on ocassion - an almost hypnotic audio experience as i recall. nostalgia aside though, i'd prefer the full audio-visual experience. for what it's worth, the hoyas are up.

having some fun this week trying to undo an unfortunate media misinterpretation/misrepresentation of unfortunately expressed senior exec comments. every day brings something new...

in transit...

sitting in copenhagen airport waiting to connect back to d.c. seems every time i travel something goes wrong on the homefront - this time just morgan having her first fender-bender (while having her first driving-in-the-snow experience), brennan somehow melting his mobile, and megan contemplating tearing the front door apart because it wouldn't close due to a jammed deadbolt (a lucky and exceedingly timely phone call prevented that - phew). beats the fire in december, i suppose.

on to other thoughts. have an hour to spare and had the option of using the laptop and wifi connection or just sitting down to a public terminal. could have gone the mobile phone route as well (nokia 9300 actually - far more than a phone), but, am finding that with anything more than 15 minutes on my hands i prefer a richer experience, comfortable seat, bigger screen, full keyboard, etc. this is the difference between being mobile and being nomadic. an important distinction. equally of interest, the choice to go with the public terminal (free) over the personal laptop/wifi connection (pay). not much of a choice, actually. impact on the device business should be interesting when access becomes more and more a utility and public terminals more and more like power outlets or water fountains (an eventuality in my opinion). think: how many times have you plugged something in to the wall in an airport or elsewhere to charge up, without a thought to the fact that someone, somewhere (not you) is paying for the power? thinking access will head the same direction, ultimately device-wise as well. sure, there will always be a business for personal devices, but the concept of broadband water fountains is not that far-fetched. value shifts not only away from the pipe, but from the devices as well. future's in the content and the services?

'nuff said. a bit too much substance for a jet-lagged layover entry (but food for later thought). off to read e-mails and then catch the flight home. can't wait to get there...

thinking of home

for starters...

january 20, 2005. inauguration day for bush 2. four more years. draw your own conclusions. whatever the case, as good a day as any to get this started...

...and from finland, no less. snowing and frigid in d.c. but rather balmy in helsinki (snowing here as well, mind you, but still unusually warm). wish i were home with the kids playing in the powder.

ah well, off to work.

(not a particularly riveting opener is it?)