Archive for March, 2006

Not much to say about it, but I’m going to be leaving San Francisco and moving to New York at the beginning of May. The main reason is that I have a lot of friends over there, and it seems like something I should try out at some point. Another big reason is that although our company has created offices in nearly every city in the world, they have stubbornly refused to build one in San Francisco. If I want to live and work in a city, it can’t be here.

Is it permanent? I’ll be out there for at least a year, which is about as far as my horizon stretches. I would like to return to the Bay Area some day, but who knows when that will be?

I made a recent trip to Australia, intending to become an expert at kitesurfing. This did not come close to happening, which came as great surprise both to myself and to the orderly workings of a rational universe. But if Aeolus withholds his winds, you can only become so awesome. more…