I found very interesting web site which compares two cities for the cost of living. According to it, living in Seattle is 33% cheaper than living in Tokyo. You can select multiple cities around the world and compare. What is more interesting is, living in Osaka japan is about the same as living in Seattle. http://www.expatistan.com

I parked the company car on the street when I went to Portland last Friday. When I came back there was a car right behind my car. "Really?" If there was a car in front of mine, I would not have been able to get out, but the car in front of my car left before I came out. I remember seeing a movie where the driver push...

Politically correct or not ... MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I received this postcard at my house. It looks like it came from American Airlines, but it dis not sound right to me for few reasons. (1) I have not flown AA since they stop flying from Seattle to Japan. That was long time ago. (2) The picture in the cover is not one of AA fleet. AA is silver metallic. I don't think they use ot...

My daughter is back from her internship NPR affiliated radio station in Philadelphia. I took my wife and her to the breakfast in West Seattle. At first, I wanted to take them to Salty's on Alki but I was reservation only this morning. So we went to Alki Cafe. I have not been there for so long but it has not changed a bit. I had t...

I was in Austin from Monday last week to Friday. I had no rain. It was warm during the day and little cold at night. The weather here is very ... Seattle. I miss the blue sky there.

Have you gotten our holiday greeting email with video? How do you like it? We made this.

It is a long trip back to Seattle from Austin via Salt Lake City. It was interesting to see how Dell sees the world.

It must have taken some time to do this, don't you think?

I was invited to attend DELL WORLD (http://dellworld.com) next week. I have not been to Texas for 20 years. I am looking forward to going to that part of the country. Like Washington State, they have no State Income tax, but unlike Washington the State is supposed to running budget surplus. And it is a Red (Republican Cont...