The View from Aqua

Those of you who think that business travel is all expense-account glamour are sadly mistaken. But once in a while, we do go someplace nice. Aqua is an Italian-Japanese restaurant in a penthouse-like space in Kowloon, looking South across the harbour at Hong Kong...

Early Monday Morning, Tokyo

The good news is, in Tokyo you can get a good cheap umbrella almost anywhere, and they always provide long plastic bags to put your wet umbrella in when you go inside a building.

Whose side are you on?

Recently, I participated in an event at work that I referred to as “The Great Cube Shuffle,” in which every single employee – save two – moved to a different office or cubicle. I was not one of the two. I moved two offices over, from a...

Google takes me at my word, sort of

I was looking at my LinkedIn profile just now, and I noticed that the Google ads next to it were a little strange. I didn’t think there was anything on my profile to indicate that I am left-handed (I’m not) or that I suffer from a brain injury (the...

Today in Business Book Club

Yes, I’m blogging myself again. It’s easy, it’s meta, and I hear it helps prevent prostate cancer. On The Ipswitch Blog, I admonished people not to write like humorless robots. I figured it might be a bit much on the corporate blog, so I’ll...