Month: May 2003

  • Herself

    Rosa was a month old yesterday. The summer is here. Normality is returning (can anything be normal with three kids?). I might even get the blog back on track. Watch…

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  • Hydrogen hopes

    A good survey of the emerging hydrogen economy from the FT (you’ll need a subscription or a free trial). The carbon establishment is betting on hydrogen because they think it…

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  • Retail’s future

    Johnnie Boden is a new age retailer with conservative attitudes: “In its celebration of warmth, contentment and pleasure in what one already has, Boden is the polar opposite of fashion’s…

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  • Visionary or goofball?

    Fortune Magazine breathlessly inducts Bezos into the management hall of fame. And so they should.

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  • Why I love chamber music more than orchestral music

    I don’t think that anything so tender, tragic or complete as Schubert’s String Quintet in C exists in the orchestral repertoire. And nowhere else will you find such passion, love…

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  • While I was away…

    I blogged a review of William Langewiesche’s American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center a couple of weeks ago and now I’ve actually read the book. It’s outstanding journalism, based…

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  • In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been for a couple of weeks…

    Since we reset our clocks to baby time on May 1 we’ve been enjoying the hospitality of Watford General Hospital a little more than we expected. First the nice people…

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  • Introducing…

    (click the little pics for bigger ones)…Rosa May Bowbrick. Just short of 8 lbs in weight, born at 12.05 pm May 1st at Watford General Hospital under an amazing stormy…

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