Hello, again.

Well, I'm still here in London for the moment. I had a wonderful day filled with lovely sights, sounds and smells of this terrific city. I really never cared for London too much before today. That's not to say that I disliked it but I felt that I'd definitely experienced much more entertaining and exciting places before. Today changed all that for me.

I was able to go all around the city on the bus. End to end (of city center, that is...) and saw so much of London in it's rawest form wherein, I believe, it's true beauty and allure lies. It's a very intense and enchanting city full of gorgeous architecture, expansive museums, decadent local cuisine, and many other various attractions. I definitely recommend you make a visit here at least once in your lifetime. Pictures will be up as soon as possible ;)

At any rate, I discovered a number of great Google tools for all you Mac users out there. I know, I know, I'm one of them too... but c'mon, at least I'm not an "Apple fanboy" and just own one for the sake of being trendy and chic. I have real, solid reasons for loving OS X, but let's not get into that. Anyway, I happened upon this great site today which is the hub of all the Mac apps made by Google which include: Picasa, Google Notifier (for Gmail and GCal users), Google Earth, Google SketchUp, and Picasa Web Albums Uploader.

I also heard of a documentary, as I was catching up with Hak5 last night (featured in episode 4x15). I'm very much interested in viewing this as it deals with true hacker culture, as most of us in the industry really understand it to be, and exactly opposite the way it's portrayed in popular media circles. The film, by Ashley Schwartau, is meant to expose to viewers hackers in their true form, as they really live and work. Sounds fascinating. Here's the trailer:


Hackers Are People Too Trailer from Ashley Schwartau on Vimeo.

In other news, I am currently in the middle of a very good book, entitled "Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business", written by Ram Charan who is brilliant when it comes to business-related efficiency and optimizing revenue streams and, obviously, profitable growth of your company. Now, of course, I am currently not operating a company per se but I have a feeling that this kind of knowledge will come in surprisingly handy in the near future. Here's hoping...

My projects seem to be developing nice and slowly, which is how I usually prefer it; at the beginning leastwise. Now there's the task of really organizing all the data and structuring it in such a way that it will be completable in the near future. Now there's the true challenge. And challenging it will be but I have a feeling I'm up for it.

Also, something I'd forgotten to write about in yesterday's update is that I travelled to the Imperial War Museum and it was absolutely phenomenal! I had such an amazing time looking overall the past and present war implements and various documents and information they had on display there. It was simply stupendous. One of the top 5 war museums I've ever had the pleasure of visiting. That really is my cup of tea, I must say. I don't know why the subject fascinates me so but it just holds an allure like no other for me. Definitely one of my true passions. (Again, pictures will be up soon)

Of course that's not to say that I condone war just for the sake of it but I do admire the speed of productivity, especially in the field of technology, during wartime. Not only that, but the developments across the span of the entire human race. We learn how to be more sneaky, diplomatic, efficient in all capacities, and truly unified behind one common goal. However, the cons of such a thing are also just as high on the richter scale, so to speak, on the opposite end of the spectrum, unforunately.

Enough of this dark talk, though. I will continue to have a wonderful time here and hopefully have another one of these for you tomorrow. Here's to all my loyal followers; I salute you! Thanks for being so great!

Au Revoir.