London Day 3

Woke up at 5:30am. Not sure why since I went to bed at 1am.

In-room breakfast was excellent. Toast, coffee, eggs and spicy sausage.

After 2 big consecutive meals, I'm going to walk to the 9:30am meeting. GPS on my Blackberry works here so I'm going to try to navigate through the local streets.

Update 1: Walk was easy. The meeting was well attended. It was sort of interesting if you find sticking a needle in your eye pleasant. Europe guys are smart and know their business so I was happy to see them be vocal about their issues even if it wasn't going to get resolved.

Walked back to the hotel to get on a conference call. Crowd was gathered on a street blocked off by the police. With security level so high, I assume it was a bomb scare. I wasn't about to mingle in a large crowd to find out if it was for real.

Got the news that my boss's boss, the CTO, left the company. Good for him but not sure how good it is for us. Never a dull moment around here. At least my boss gave me a pre-release of the news to brace myself.

Update 2: Dinner with Steve and Marcien at Bamboo restaurant on Percy. Joined by M. Wolfson, ex-AOL. Asian fusion stuff, generally not my choice. It was tasty but skimpy on the servings. Enjoyed the drinks and company. Steve and Marcien are couple of my favorite guys at the company.

Late night. IM'd with Barry and Beth. Another pair of folks I like a lot. I wish there were positive things to chat about today's meeting but there was very little.

Good night.