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  1. Sign of the times. Just visited the kids' snow fort. Snow desktops and 1 snow laptop. Yikes.
  2. Went to PPP Canada Conference last week. Over 900 people. Lots of people looking to break new ground in performance measurement.
  3. At Infrastructure Investor conference in NYC. Big picture: slow spending; big funding gaps; US politics/structure continue to get in the way
  4. Second Bixi bike ride. All uphill. Not as fun as first downhill ride last time. Anyone else tried this eco-friendly community transport?
  5. There is nothing better than a surprise based on talent. America's Got Talent for sure: http://bit.ly/OOWTO
  6. PPP Value for Money Assessments - If I don't audit the financial model and don't analyze the underlying assumptions, what good is it??
  7. Just got back from my first bixi bike rental here in Montreal. Is this the future of urban transit? Check it out: http://www.bixi.com/home
  8. Steel beams, heavy wire mesh support so many of our bridges now. How safe should I feel? How much would you argue about taxes right now?
  9. @pmharper Lots of infrastructure investment. This is good!
  10. In Toronto today. Really impressed by the infrastructure professionals I met. Lots of experience. Lots of sensibility on where they're going
  11. Canada surprised by April unemployment figures. Unemployment flat as 35,000+ new jobs created, majority entrepreneurs.
  12. Had dinner with friend tonight. She showed us new painting she did. Check it out, Broccomama at http://riseofthelittleguy.blogspot.com/
  13. What about "market infrastructure" for local communities? Breaking down barriers at MarketTiger http://www.markettiger.com
  14. Infrastructure in Africa: Check out Rwanda's upcoming summit http://www.rwandainvest.com/roundtable/construction.php
  15. $4B pension fund invests in $4B infrastructure project - strategic move by Dallas Police and Fire Pension System to drive economic growth.
  16. Taiwan High Speed Rail and Saudi's Shuaibah III highly successful. Extracted 100 best practices in finance for infrastructure. Interest?
  17. Infrastructure will be one of the key tests of US recovery - financial and social. Obama needs a lot of help.
  18. Oprah has over 250,000 followers in one day. Now that's power.
  19. Just cleaning up before a move. Going through old files, realized how much the world has changed in 10 years. Life was so simple then...
  20. In news today, Canada's recession expected to end in Q3-Q4 2009. Significant early signals in the economy. Survey of economists.