Germs suck!

Germs suck! My short holiday was screwed over by the flu. I spend the whole week in bed. The pros are that I got a lot of sleep and that a made a fair dent in my reading stash.

One of the books I read was Andy Kessler's "How We Got Here: A Silicon Valley and Wall Street Primer" e-book. It is a nice tour of technology and markets, starting from the industrial revolution till now. It is quite cool how the technology and the markets worked together. Makes one think about the implications of national policies and what it means for innovation. As well as what impact innovation can have on the wealth of a country. You can get a free version from the previous link.

Dr Ashit Talukder visited Stone Three yesterday to tell us about his research in distributed sensors for health monitoring. His group are doing some cool stuff with motes. He also showed us his Sony Vaio U notebook. It looks like a big PDA, but packs the power of a small notebook. This is the computer to get if a tablet PC is too big for you. I wouldn't mind owning one.