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It’s strange, going back to a place you’ve been before, but years later. The most extreme example I have of this is going back to Hong Kong after seventeen years. Coming back to live in the UK, after a nearly eight year hiatus, generates many of the same weird déjà vu and “I feel like an old man” emotions.

The last time I lived in the UK was between October 2000 and February of 2001. Things were very different in my life then. I had moved to London as part of the “international expansion” of my start-up company, Xlibris. I was living in, what I didn’t realize, was a …

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News Flash!

LONDON, December 10, 2008. Careful statistical analysis of blog posting patterns on Mochasteak.com revealed what many had suspected: Brian is a lazy blogger. After reaching previous highs of 20-25 posts per month, recent months have been averaging a paltry 1-3 posts.

Brian Bishop, owner and sole contributor to Mochasteak.com, was quoted as saying, “I’m shocked! Shocked and appalled at how lazy I am. I used to just have this general feeling that I was neglecting my blog duties, but now with this new data staring me in the face, I just can’t deny it… I’m in a blog-posting crisis.”

President-Elect Barack Obama could not be reached for …

Politics is interesting to talk about, but usually not very inspiring. Or, more accurately, looking back at some of my earlier political posts, it looks like politics inspires cynicism, incredulity, anger, and pit-of-your-stomach, world-is-going-to-hell depression.

I’ve always believed that you have to be an egotistical asshole to be a politician, and I still think that’s by and large true, but one thing about last night’s historic election of Barack Obama to the Presidency was that it was the first time in a very long time that a political event had inspired a positive feeling.

From the beginning it was clear that there was a fantastic opportunity after eight years of Bush, terror alerts, the politics of fear and …

A couple of things drive me into a mental state of complete anger and anxiety: getting lost, George W Bush, religious crazies, and losing important travel documents.

Let’s examine that last one a bit more shall we?

But first a little background.

So I’m on a business trip in Germany. I’m out with some colleagues having a nice dinner, then a few drinks, and then we go to a place called “the Cave” which is a tiny bar in what looks like a wine cellar with a cute little dance floor and a bartender/DJ with a love of the 80’s and early 90’s.

We’re all having a good time and yours truly decides to go back to his hotel at a respectable 1:00am. …