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I’ve been fortunate in my life to have lived in a few great cities (London, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul) and travel to many many more. Travel is one of the experiences I value the most for its amazing ability to transform people: by embedding yourself into other cultures, by experiencing other lifestyles, you gain an understanding not only of the rest of the world, but also about yourself and your own culture.

That said, one of the areas of the world that I had been really interested in visiting is the Middle East. It’s a part of the world with a disproportionate influence on our lives, not just …

So I’ve seen two great examples of extremely thoughtful gifts in the past month, and thought that now would be a good time to give some credit to these extremely generous and caring people: Pamela Seaton (my girlfriend’s sister) and Mark Bishop (my brother).

[EDITOR'S NOTE: It should be assumed by the reader as a given that of course the most thoughtful, generous, caring, and all around best person in the world is, of course, the author's girlfriend.]

I think these two make fantastic goodwill ambassadors and here’s why:

This Christmas I had the pleasure of experiencing Christmas in lovely (freezing) Scotland with Lynn’s family. While hanging out with her sister Natalie one night, she looked at us excitedly and asked, …

This is an attempt to test out the new functionality on the AuthorMapper that lets you embed a map on your own site.

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This past week I accomplished a major goal: a website that I’ve been working on for fourteen months has finally launched.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the AuthorMapper.

It’s a great feeling, when you’ve worked for something for so long, to finally have it, well, DONE. The idea for the AuthorMapper came to me while I was discussing the possibilities of a new piece of software, an XML content server, with a colleague in Heidelberg in October of 2007. The first recorded email I have about it is from November 2, 2007. All told, I have over 500 emails in my “AuthorMapper” folder, spanning fourteen months.

And this Monday it went live.

I really don’t know the last thing that …