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Thought for the day from The Dilbert Blog:

Cambridge-London-Toronto-San Francisco-Seattle-London-Cambridge. Lots of interesting meetings with lots of interesting people, but it wasn't helped by my catching a bug on the flight out, so that many of the meetings were conducted in a haze of jetlag, 'flu, and 'flu-combatting drugs, with me sitting as far from the other participants as reasonably possible.

I was kept alive by Hap & CD, who welcomed me into their Seattle home despite my ailments, and administered TLC at every turn. I told them I felt like an elderly Powerbook, whose battery wasn't too good, and after it ran down to zero during the day I had to go back to them to get it charged up. By that time, though, my lid was pretty much shut! Don't think I was a very inspiring guest, but I was a very grateful one.

Now I'm on the train back home from the airport, blogging to keep awake. I have a couple of days to unpack and repack before heading to Johannesburg on Wednesday where I'll be installing a couple more Ndiyo systems...

Am reading the Scoble/Israel book, Naked Conversations: "How blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers", and wondering whether the Ndiyo news announcements should be more like a blog and less like a series of informal press releases....

There's a first time for everything. I found myself needing some dental treatment at short notice, and after arriving at the surgery, I was shown into the treatment room and told that the dentist would just be a few minutes.

Well, you're never alone with a Blackberry, and so it was that yesterday I sent my first email from a dentist's chair...

A very nicely done spoof.

Some pretty amazing images from China.

I was in Toronto at the weekend, meeting up with the good folks from DirectLeap. It was exceedingly cold on Sat night when I arrived, as I had expected at this time of the year, but on Sunday the sun shone, and all was bright and clear, and we sat outside enjoying the weather.

Fame at last! Bill T has quoted part of my 'Gizmo, Skype and the Garden' post in his BBC article.

I was at John's a couple of nights ago, and we both happened to check our Blackberrys at the same time. Tom, John's son, laughed and grabbed a camera...

If you like Scott Adams' cartoons you may also like his blog.

Here, from a recent post, is some advice for new graduates starting in business:

Your potential for senior management will be determined by the three H's: Hair, Height, and Harvard degree. You need at least two out of three. (Non-Harvard schools will be acceptable if it's clear that you ""could have gone"" to Harvard.)

Your hard work will be rewarded. Specifically, your boss's boss will reward your boss for making you work so hard.

There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it last week and you just remembered.