My dear friend Eleanor has been visiting for several days from London, as part of her North American odyssey. We’ve had a grand time together, but even more, her travel blogs are simply fantastic. Check out Urbantics here.
I have learned so much about my own backyard (like the SF Streetcar Museum), to say [...]
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Seeing SF through a Friendly-London-Lens…
Posted in Uncategorized on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Myriad photos (finally!) posted…
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After not weeks but literally months of difficulties with Flickr uploader (including admittedly stretches of time in which I just gave up trying to trouble-shoot — even with help from the Flickr experts), several sets of photos from this year are online. Here’s the shortlist of links:
Southern India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka — March / [...]
April’s Notes from the Road: India (2000)
Posted in Travelogues, Uncategorized on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As I am scheduled to return to India next month for the first time in seven years (my current itinerary includes Bangalore, Chennai and some time in the countryside of Tamil Nadu), it seemed appropriate to refresh my Indian memories and dust off my first travelogue from that country. In 2000 I spent a [...]
Morgan Stanley / Women’s World Banking MF Conference in NYC
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I spent yesterday at a microfinance conference co-sponsored by Morgan Stanley and Women’s World Banking in New York. I was pleased to find that one of the primary areas of focus and discussion was equity investment opportunities for the microfinance sector. This covered a range of topics, from MFI equity valuations to [...]
Adios 2007… y Hola Blog!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As 2007 draws to a close, it is time to put a blog-stake in the sand. In the past couple of months I have often had the best of intentions to start writing in greater earnest, only to be thwarted by what were at the time ‘more important’ concerns – international travel demands to meet, presentations [...]
