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Of course I haven't blogged much about it, but the most important event of this past weekend was the French election. This weekend one of Holly's colleagues had 2 girlfriends visiting from Switzerland. Spoke to them for a while about it, of course they were very much following it. Sarkozy won, which may mean a new era in the French-US relationships, and also a more pro-EU France. Should be interesting.

Took a walk to Au Bon Pain to get a French baguette (did you know that means "small stick" in French), and prepared a great toasted serrano ham and cheese sandwich, mmh . Such a great day out, sunny and perfect. Took a few pics, I will try and post them later. Also walked to Chase, the branch on 34th and 5th has 8 (yes, eight) ATMs. There was a line of several people waiting to use an ATM, crazy, only in NYC. Not a cloud in the sky. Headed out again.

Interesting new study published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. They conducted a survey to classify Americans into different groups of technology users. They found 8% of people are deep users of participatory Web and mobile applications (the called them Omnivores within the Elite Tech Users group). They also found there is still a meaningful number of indifferent and off the network users. Check it out (PDF download). It's 65 pages long, but you can just look at the summary finding pages, where all the results are, and skim through the rest.

The NYC photographer Spencer Tunick undressed Mexico City this past weekend, photographing 20,000 naked people who showed up for the event, beating the 7,000 that gathered up in Barcelona a few years ago. The event took place in the Zocalo square - been there! - one of the largest plazas in the world. A zócalo is a central town square located in Mexican cities.