Just a Few Thoughts
I can't tell if it's Blogger or the crackpots running the MBS IT department, but my blogging abilities are severely impaired these days. Knowing what I do about the Brits, I'm not putting any blame on our friends down at Google. (I suppose it could be me, but c'mon...)
A few thoughts that may or may not be interesting:
1) I've still yet to find anyone in Britain that's even the slightest bit helpful. All polite, but absolutely no action items come from any conversation. Every conversation ends with a Brit looking at you with a blank stare waiting for you to leave empty-handed.
2) Yahoo bought Flickr a while back and absolutely killed it. It's obvious they replaced the great Product Managers they had with Textbook memorizing Ivy League MBA's who have never heard the term "Customer Experience." I'll be moving the pictures to shutterfly soon.
3) The bus system in Manchester is all privatizied. It's crazy. 7 different bus companies all competeing on the same and different routes, on different schedules and different rates. Totally nuts.
4) I figured out how to cross the street on foot. The secret is that intersections are for cars, and pedestrians cross wherever they can. So if you see an opening, look both ways and run, no matter where you are.
5) The weather here is nuts. It's like Seattle where you get sun, rain, cold and warm, but in Seattle weather shifts through those options over a few days while in Manchester they change in an hour. Literally, you can be sitting in shorts and a t-shirt after a pleasant sun-filled stroll, and see someone walk in drenched and shivering after getting caught in a hail storm. It's that unpredictable.
6) A few more pics are up on Flickr for the time being. Hope to be moved over to shutterfly tomorrow.
Hope all is well.
A few thoughts that may or may not be interesting:
1) I've still yet to find anyone in Britain that's even the slightest bit helpful. All polite, but absolutely no action items come from any conversation. Every conversation ends with a Brit looking at you with a blank stare waiting for you to leave empty-handed.
2) Yahoo bought Flickr a while back and absolutely killed it. It's obvious they replaced the great Product Managers they had with Textbook memorizing Ivy League MBA's who have never heard the term "Customer Experience." I'll be moving the pictures to shutterfly soon.
3) The bus system in Manchester is all privatizied. It's crazy. 7 different bus companies all competeing on the same and different routes, on different schedules and different rates. Totally nuts.
4) I figured out how to cross the street on foot. The secret is that intersections are for cars, and pedestrians cross wherever they can. So if you see an opening, look both ways and run, no matter where you are.
5) The weather here is nuts. It's like Seattle where you get sun, rain, cold and warm, but in Seattle weather shifts through those options over a few days while in Manchester they change in an hour. Literally, you can be sitting in shorts and a t-shirt after a pleasant sun-filled stroll, and see someone walk in drenched and shivering after getting caught in a hail storm. It's that unpredictable.
6) A few more pics are up on Flickr for the time being. Hope to be moved over to shutterfly tomorrow.
Hope all is well.
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