Archives for May, 2005
2005.05.30 (Mon)
Oops. Anti-poverty wristbands produced in sweatshops
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Scotsman.com – FASHIONABLE wristbands worn by pop stars, actors, top athletes and celebrities to publicise the Make Poverty History campaign are produced in appalling ‘slave labour’ conditions, damning evidence has revealed.
The East Building
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A view to the East Building of the [National Gallery of Art](http://www.nga.gov/home.htm), Washington D.C. The building was designed my I. M. Pei (and it shows, right down to the little mini-Louvre pyramids out the front).
2005.05.29 (Sun)
The Tony Danza of blogging
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It says here that I’m a C-list blogger – which makes me, what, like the Tony Danza of blogging or something.
2005.05.28 (Sat)
Seven piano accordians
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They were just sitting there … like a kind of challenge.
2005.05.23 (Mon)
Target practice
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I passed this store on the way to breakfast each day. Always try to start the day with a curious juxtaposition I say.
Bryant Park
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Before I forget, two things worth keeping in mind about Bryant Park (behind the New York City Public Library): it’s a free wi-fi hotspot and it has a public restroom.
2005.05.22 (Sun)
Nearly home. The plane is slowly descending towards Chiba.
2005.05.19 (Thu)
Utopia Parkway
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It may be the best street name in the English language…
Lunchtime at the New York Public Library
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A woman eating lunch above the steps of the New York Public Library.
2005.05.18 (Wed)
The sheer up-ness of it all
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I would never, ever tire of walking these streets
Empire State
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Intermittent connectivity here – I’m walking around Manhattan with an Apollo mission command centre in my backpack, ready to leap onto the net at the merest sniff of a wi-fi signal.
2005.05.17 (Tue)
The kindness of strangers
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Speaking of pizza, we’re having a competition to find the best in the Bronx. Next up, Ernie and Louis. Frank’s Pizza was just amazing, but Ernie and Louis were written up as the best (my friend doesn’t think so; he gives it to Frank). Ernie and Louis had a fight many years ago and Louis left to start his own place. So there is Ernie and Louis (with no Louis), and then there is Louis’.
2005.05.14 (Sat)
Farewell to DC
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After work yesterday I was exhausted but couldn’t resist taking advantage of the fact that it stays light until nearly 9:00 p.m. here at this time of year. I walked up to the Capitol and watched it turn slowly from building to icon as twilight deepened. There are other buildings in Washington, and I have photographed them, but this one is really something else and I wasn’t going to leave town without getting close to it.
2005.05.13 (Fri)
A morning coffee thought
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In Japan and the US, the public space where you can sit and drink your coffee in the morning comes courtesy of entities to which we no longer pay much attention.
2005.05.11 (Wed)
Unearned déjà vu
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Right at the point of the cab ride from Dulles airport to my hotel where the fortieth or fiftieth anonymous glass office block was making me wonder just where exactly I was (and how long before I wasn’t), the car swept around a bend in the expressway down onto a ramp behind the Lincoln Memorial and I caught a glimpse of the Washington Monument over the tops of the tress with the Capitol shining in bright sunlight in the background.
Scotsman.com: Japan’s plan to evict foreign ‘residents’
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A SCOTTISH diplomat who helped secure a historic treaty between Britain and Japan could be evicted from his resting place in a Tokyo cemetery amid plans to turn the burial ground into a park.
2005.05.07 (Sat)
On my way
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In about half an hour or so I leave the house to make my way to Shinjuku where I’ll catch a Narita Express to the airport. From there, naturaly enough, I’ll catch a plane (at least, that’s the plan). At this point, it’s just a matter of what I’ve forgotten to pack.
2005.05.03 (Tue)
H×M: the restaurant find of the summer has wi-fi
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I’m writing this from a brasserie in Hiratsuka called H×M where today we ate lunch, and where we returned for dinner: it was that good, and dinner seemed like the obvious and right thing to do. In between meals we walked down to the beach and drank a couple of bottles of wine, and talked and listened to the sound of the waves.
2005.05.01 (Sun)
I’m not sure it’s the smartest thing in the world to install a major update to your operating system at 2:00 a.m. after you’ve helped a small dinner party consume four or five bottles of wine, but that’s what I did when I got home last night (um, this morning).
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