NYC I'm in New York and getting the usual buzz from being here. Going to investigate Birdbath this afternoon, and have some free time over the weekend if anyone reading this is in the area and feeling sociable......

Travels I'm expecting to be in New York at the end of next week and free to meet up over the weekend of 28/9 June, if anyone's interested......

Interesting job alert As you may know, I’m currently doing some work for NESTA and in particular its NESTA Connect programme. NESTA has been through a bit of a transformation in recent months and is doing some good stuff based on getting people...

Deepening friendships One of the great things about Banff was the chance to deepen friendships with folks I know almost entirely from blogging. Patti Digh gave a terrific presentation with her partner, David Robinson. It was very experiential and it's hard to...

Inner game? I'm blogging this from Terminal 3 at Heathrow, on my way to Calgary (then by road to Banff). I'm looking forward to a few days hanging around with improv folks and enjoying not being in Britain for a bit. Heathrow...

Heading for the mountains Well, judging by my writing style of yesterday, I need a holiday. So it's good that I'm taking one. I've just booked my flights to Banff in the Rockies for the Applied Improv conference. It'll be a chance to catch...

Travel update I'm back from New Zealand (where my blogging was pretty light, as you may have noticed). I'm starting to think of it as my second home. It's a remarkably uncrowded place, a massive contrast to London life. Each time I've...

Off on hols I'm blogging this from Heathrow where I'm en route to New Zealand for a holiday away from it all. I'm looking forward to watching the tide go in and out of Cable Bay near Nelson. I'll probably be visiting Wellington...

Bog update It was funny to have people come up to me at the conference yesterday to ask me how if my loo was working yet. The joys of blogging. For those who care, we're making progress with a new macerator due...

Lunch and conversation and capture I had a great lunch yesterday with Chris Corrigan, Richard Oliver, Kevin McLean and his partner. Kevin blogged it better than I could here. Loosely related, I've been thinking how often I hear people at meetings concerned with capturing knowledge...

Rebooting I'm off shortly to Copenhagen for Reboot 9, which looks like being fun, despite my giving a talk there tomorrow, supposedly about "Contact". I'm also doing a 5 minute micropresentation with Rob Paterson on the theme of non-linearity. We've come...

Update If you've been trying to email me in the last few hours, it will have bounced due to an overload at my host. It should be working again now, but you might need to resend. The same may have happened...

On solitude and thinking I like autumn, and every year there's always a day when it clearly announces itself. Yesterday, there was a little chill in the morning sunshine that marked the end of summer and sparked a certain purposefulness that I always associate...

Quick update You're not hearing much from me at the moment as I'm gving myself a holiday from most online contact. On the plane, all the kiwis were bemoaning this year's winter in NZ but it's been great since I got here...

Down Under I'm off to New Zealand tomorrow night for a holiday. I'll be 24 hours in the air with a short stop enroute so I hope Singapore Airlines will have some good movies on my seatback. I'm swapping summer for winter...