Update

It has been more than a year since I last wrote on my blog which at one point in time (2003-2005) was a well visited and linked blog on international politics. Originally designed to discuss everything at the intersection of politics and markets, it somehow gravitated towards European politics with some American and Canadian news thrown in the mix whenever I felt like it.

In 2007, I redesigned the blog with the plan of making it less of a daily blog, but my regular business activities had taken over so much that I completely forgot I even had a blog. It had also become clear to me that political blogging had lost some of its initial shine as for many it had turned into a partisan effort with very few bloggers daring to take viewpoints that would deviate from the brand they had established for themselves. I started to resent the 'preaching to the converted routine'. Only one, the first blog I ever read and the one I continue to read every day is one of the few that was able to break that routine. Anyway, if I had wanted to follow a similar path it would have cost me real time and effort and that increasingly was devoted other areas. Finance, technology, family, parent advisory work, skiing, travel, reading and yes, the daily digest of many other blogs.

However, an online presence that can not be eradicated (LinkedIn has entrenched it even further) required a bit of a clean-up of Peaktalk so I am updating some of the links and I am actually enjoying playing around with good old MT. Hey, we may get back to more regular programming over here at some point!