Ampersand switched to gmail (well, google apps) last year and hasn’t looked back. This means that I can get at all my mail, calendar, contacts, etc. from any browser anywhere. But in order to work effectively during the summer abroad I needed to monitor and respond to short term emails from anywhere — a train, [...]
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Our family decided spend 9 weeks this summer travelling around Europe. Since I was unable to take 9 weeks off cold turkey, this was to be a summer working in Europe for me and partly for my wife, not a summer off, so we need to be able to communicate easily and [...]
I was fortunate enough to be able to work from Europe this summer, combining the need to earn a living with the desire to spend the summer with the family in a variety of interesting locations. It went well, and in this day and age it’s certainly possible to do a lot given an [...]
Last week the Italian news magazine L’Espresso had a great two page spread interviewing Jeff Pulver about video on the net. It’s part of their annual look ahead issue “Challenges for 2007″ and contains interviews with 15 or 20 visionaries including Steve Jobs, Vint Cerf, Robert Reich, and others. Not bad company and of course [...]
Rainbow from Hotel Raphael
I’ve been on hiatus for the last couple weeks, on a brief holiday back to Rome. We had a wonderful time seeing some friends, going to Italian cinema (Chiamano and La Notte Prima degli Esami), dining at our favorite restaurants, and of course shopping for some Italian fashion.
The photo is from the [...]
I came down to Manhattan this morning for some business and lunch with Alan. We extended our seies of the leisurely Italian pranzo at Lupa and found it quite good. On the Roman friends news front, Diane’s been getting some great exposure with her photography including the Jan 2006 cover of the [...]