I am in Los Angeles. Can't sleep. A little worried about radiation--they've detected higher levels in the water and milk here. It's meant to be meaningless--on one recent reading, you would have to drink over 100 litres worth to approximate the cosmic radiation hit from flying
round-trip from San Fran to Washington. But, as any good friend will tell you, I have always been anxious about radiation. It took me a long time to start using a mobile phone, and I always insist on relying on the speaker facility, much to the frustration of many over the years. I like Andy Grove's (of Intel fame) maxim:
only the paranoid survive!
Anyhow, I am way behind the curve on my regular reading, which is disappointing, and may delay some posting. I did riff a little ode to my unborn son while on the A380 over here, but I won't publish it until everything is rock-solid. In the meantime, check out these amazing pictures shot from the A380's "sky cam", which allows you to watch the plane from your seat as it is flying. A weird experience indeed. (Many, many thanks to Qantas for the upgrade to 1A, which was a first for me.) One of these shots was taken just as the plane was landing. An extraordinary world we live in, do we (sorry for the Yoda syntax).
