HNY 2009
How exciting to be starting a new year which must hold more promise than the last did. Fourteen months ago one of the board members of my last company told me "beware of 2008! it looks to be a dramatic slowdown compared with 2007". This man is in the hotel business where people book ahead a year in advance and he'd already seen a slowdown.
One of the many positive byproducts of networking outside of one's inner circle are market facts that you would typically only see months, or perhaps quarters, later. Some friends who work in commercial real estate are also great sources of information on future business growth...well...there's some new space available near the Doubletree hotel in the Carmel Valley area of San Diego (I'm always amazed at how transformational a hotel's web photos/images can be...this hotel is next to a virtually vacant office building and surrounded by two freeways, a huge street and a taco bell...find ANY of those in the photos of the hotel...)
I'm using Apple's MobileMe service now that i'm not an enterprise Exchange user any longer. For a month I pondered what I was doing wrong with my contacts until I saw an upgrade that performed that sync too. Thanks. So far it has not been all that smooth. but i'll save the details for later, but it needs some work.
Well, heading out to CES tomorrow. Should be interesting as usual, but all reports are subduded. We'll be reporting from the floor of CES Thursday and Friday. Lots of new insight on developments from last year and 2009.
One of the many positive byproducts of networking outside of one's inner circle are market facts that you would typically only see months, or perhaps quarters, later. Some friends who work in commercial real estate are also great sources of information on future business growth...well...there's some new space available near the Doubletree hotel in the Carmel Valley area of San Diego (I'm always amazed at how transformational a hotel's web photos/images can be...this hotel is next to a virtually vacant office building and surrounded by two freeways, a huge street and a taco bell...find ANY of those in the photos of the hotel...)
I'm using Apple's MobileMe service now that i'm not an enterprise Exchange user any longer. For a month I pondered what I was doing wrong with my contacts until I saw an upgrade that performed that sync too. Thanks. So far it has not been all that smooth. but i'll save the details for later, but it needs some work.
Well, heading out to CES tomorrow. Should be interesting as usual, but all reports are subduded. We'll be reporting from the floor of CES Thursday and Friday. Lots of new insight on developments from last year and 2009.
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