March 7, 2008

Ramada nights

Oh joy! My colleague Ruth missed her plane so an early departure for the airport for a luxurious dinner at the off airport Ramada. We got within a mile of the airport then got lost for half an hour in the cargo warehouse hinterland and the faint sodium glow of the Shanghai night.
In the end [...]

March 7, 2008

It’s like September 2006 all over again

Google’s stock now trades at around September 2006 levels and how different the view is on the descent as once again the theory of ‘what goes up goes up’ proves less than entirely valid.
Apart from a vauge curiosity as to the impact on the options of several thousand Google employees one wonders what the trigger [...]