Recent Restaurant Visits
Last night Justin & I went to a great restaurant, High Chai.
I def. recommend the chicken wings (they're not fried), and the steak - it's crusted with tea! Justin's salmon with an apple+greens salad was awesome too.
The raspberry crepes were pretty good. Before you walk in, be sure to pick up a post card at the door which gets you a free pot of chocolate tea - which is very good. It's basically a black tea infused with chocolate flavor of sorts. It tastes almost like chocolate licorice...
Last week, I visited a Basque restaurant, Euzkadi. I was a bit upset (for them) that CitySearch listed them under "Spanish" - but whatever. I highly recommend this place for great tapas. I def. recommend the spicy chocolate & chorizo.
Lastly, one I haven't tried but comes highly recommended by Courtney is Cafesito.
I'll provide a brief review after I try it.
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Globalization Taking a Turn
Last night I was walking to my one of my favorite restaurants with my brother and we were discussing many things, from relationships to income, where to live and what's going on with China and globalization.
Right now I feel as though China's impending "dominance" will be unlike any we've seen - in the sense that I don't believe they'll rule the world as other nations have in the past. While they do have strength in numbers, their growth is due in large part to foreign investment, both in money and minds. I find it hard to believe that China will be able to dominate over other countries without harming itself by scaring away foreign brains and money. More to the point, their growth is also a result of companies who source parts for a single product from 30 different countries. China will enter the game at a point where the level of interdependence is so high that it's ability to exert force will be mitigated. [I'll pontificate more on this later]
This conversation led to my thoughts on an issue that I talked at length about with Nimrod while I was in Australia in December/January. The idea is that at this early stage of globalization, many communities & countries are focusing more on competition for industry than the well-being of their community - and as such, are lowering the quality of life for their citizens today... Here in the U.S., counties have given a new definition to Eminent Domain by trying to take private property in order to give it to private corporations. Luckly it's been stopped in a few places.
In the not too distant future though, I believe there will be a healthy fight between commuinties to attract people to live in their communities - because borders will be more fluid. This will stifle globalization at first - because people will be incented to stay at home. But in the end I believe it will allow more people to live in a greater variety of places around the world. Further homogenizing the human race, both in physical, and social respects.
This article which Courtney brought me today talks about how brain-drain is coming full circle as countries such as Taiwan and Israel are winning out. Many of their citizens who left to study or become entrepreneurs are returning home.
"Once peripheral, Taiwan and Israe now host the largest venutre captial industries outside the U.S."
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Google continues to roll'em out
My prediction re: GOOG's aspirations continues to unravel... here are three recent articles that bring us way closer to a world where everything is web-based... running through GOOG, or a GOOG-like company - kicking MSFT on it's ass (except for in the corporate world where stupidity will always reign supreme). I will put a small caveat that my good friend Lon made... GOOG has yet to develop a successful product since their search engine and related interfaces (note-I'm not counting products/companies that they bought).
Google's web-based word processor
In a small deal that signals big changes on the Internet, Google announced Mar. 9 that it has acquired a Silicon Valley sensation called Writely. The online word processor is still in the testing stage, but it's attracting attention as a free alternative to relatively expensive desktop applications like Microsoft (MSFT) Word.
CL2 - Google's web-based calendar
I am now in possession of screenshots from Google’s long delayed new Ajax calendar application, which will be called “CL2? (the CL2 login screen is here). It was only a matter of time before someone broke down and leaked these - as far as I know these screen shots are the first on the public web. Previous ones were almost certainly photoshopped fakes. These are real.
G-Drive Google's web-based storage
"With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc). We already have efforts in this direction in terms of GDrive, GDS, Lighthouse, but all of them face bandwidth and storage constraints today." — excerpt from Analyst Day presentation notes.
The GDrive service will provide anyone (who trusts Google with their data) a universally accessible network share that spans across computers, operating systems and even devices. Users will no longer require third party applications to emulate this behaviour by abusing Gmail storage.
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