Just arrived in New York City in time for 1) the huge ticker-tape parade for the NY Giants and 2) the start of Super Tuesday. I will be outside China for about 24 days: have meetings in New York and D.C. over the next two weeks followed by a speaking engagement at an email marketing and publishing conference in Miami at the end of this month. Our ChinaNewswire.com/Xinwengao.com will make a big announcement by the end of this month, so I am here in the U.S. preparing things for that too…. more news on that soon…

I also just found out I'll be back in the U.S. at the end of March to give a talk at a China conference put on by Wharton, so I suddenly feel like I'm repatriating with all the time I'm spending here.

Finally, I started using the Nokia E62 a few months ago (it was a free phone from China Mobile), but just purchased an unlocked Blackberry Curve 8320 with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etcetera, because the E62 OS is toooo slow. Just bought it online and it arrives in 48 hours!