Archive for December 21st, 2006

Tokyo panoramas

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

One of the great things about Tokyo is our office location. Here is the view from the 44th floor of Mori Tower, where my team in Tokyo have their desks:

Here is a zoom on the cluster of buildings in the distance:

Finally, here is an open-air theatre just outside our building:

Cold has come

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Just when we were thinking that the mild temperatures of autumn were going to follow us through to January, winter startled us by coming from behind and making rapid progress earlier this week!

Out of the blue, the streets of Shepherds Bush were wreathed in a rather picturesque mist when we emerged the other morning. And the helpful ABN Amro clock near work declared that it was 5°C! Two more days of the same and today the temperature was reading 0°C – serious ear-tingling, hand-numbing cold.  Brrr!