…of finding out that someone you really like the thoughts of has a blog – which after all is just a way to know their thought and perhaps have a conversation around them at a difference.

John Harris has a blog called VirtualTravelog. John was/is an ex-mining engineer, ex-pat Yorkshireman who was a director of technology at Sapient in San Francisco when I worked for them. When I was in SF we’d go for a warm beer and have a really excellent wide-ranging talk about tech, society, ecology, engineering and whatever else the beer or surroundings inspired.

Look like his blog is going to be much the same. His latest post at time of writing is on “Economics and the Internet’s Large-Scale Topology” which seems to build on some of the work I was involved with in a very small way with him at Sapient.

Top stuff and one to subscribe to.