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A beautiful day at Lake WylieWell its been a busy month – and an emotional one.  I decided that it was time for me to find a new vocation and with great sadness I left Exist to look for opportunities in the US.   Having worked with Exist for over a year and a half it was a hard decision – and I know I’m going to miss a lot of the great people in the company – but with the constant travel and a desire to return home to my son more often,  as well as an interest in getting back to my technical roots, I felt it was time.

It was a bit of a shock to the system to suddenly have my nights freed up back in Charlotte and I have been using them to catch up with old friends and also spending some time with my family.  I am also taking the time to work out when I’m going to jump a plane back to the Philippines and actually take a proper vacation there!

View from Blowing Rock,NCIn the past week I have been lucky enough to do a bit of traveling around NC (up to the mountains and around the local lakes) as well as back up to NY to get a few beers with people who are wondering if my weight loss is permanent (going to have to work on that one).   I am currently just pulling together my plans for next month – and more about that on another blog post.

One thing I’m really looking forward to it a return to technology, architecture, culture and collaboration – these have been the areas that I have enjoyed most in my career and my time with DevZuz and ultimately Exist allowed me to be part of a lot of diverse and exciting projects.   I look forward to bringing that energy home with me and seeing what we can do back in New York.

New York CabI just returned from a week in New York, besides being blessed with nice weather it was great to reconnect with a number of old friends and also the opportunity to make some new ones.

I had forgotten how nice sitting in the Bryant Park Cafe on a sunny afternoon with a glass of wine was, and besides the rather dodgy hotel arrangements I was able to get over to FAO Schwartz for some birthday present shopping.

Also it was a good chance to play with BrightKite a little more,  given that Manila doesn’t have any streets in Google Maps it makes for a somewhat challenging experience.  I can really start to see that over the second half of this year location aware software is going to be kicking up much more – and hopefully it’ll be an interesting way find out what is going on around me.

All I need now is iPhone 2.0 – and counting down to that too…