The World According To Rags

Blackberry App Request: Expense Tracking

Doing expense reports is the bane of my existence.  I was just reminded of this while spending a tidy couple of hours doing expenses for the past 6 weeks.  Ugh.  I wish there were an easy-to-use app on my Blackberry that I could use to help track expenses during downtime in cabs, airports, stations, etc. and easily have that formatted and exported into a spreadsheet.  Yes, I could whip out my laptop but that's not very practical.  Or perhaps an app like this already exists?

London's Cosmopolitan Mix

When I first moved to London, I was amazed by how cosmopolitan it was - I met people from New Zealand, Oz, Hungary, Iceland and even Samoa in my first couple of weeks.  I realized that I'd been taking it for granted.  I was reminded of this last night when I went to a party and hung out with an acquaintance from Ghana and met another person who could only describe herself as "European" (german + french citizenship whose father grew up in Portugal).  It makes for fascinating conversations and new perspectives, and something that, I think, also reflects in the startups that emerge from Europe that tend to have a more global outlook (skype and spotify most readily come to mind).