Now & Z/Yen - December 1998
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Now & Z/Yen - December 1998
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"Zest for Enlightenment" The Irregular Newsletter of Z/Yen Limited December 1998
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Flotation Of Art Gallery – From Our Virtual Correspondent
This correspondent, realising the importance of virtual offices, virtual exhibitions and virtually being places, high-tailed it to Burma and Langkawi where he turned brown with envy at missing this year’s art world highlight. Z/yen’s guests allegedly made appreciative murmurs through mouthfuls of Jo Middleton’s cooking about Den Phillips’ photographs and Vanessa Williams’ driftwood sculptures. It is rumoured that some folks even purchased a few works. Needless to say, having heard that the canapés were not so bad, this virtual correspondent will provide even better coverage next year, or at least bring back some south-east Asian elephant dung in time for the show.
Little Bits Make A Lot Of Quanta
Michael is working with a few leading players in R&D and finance on developments in quantum computing and, more likely to occur rapidly, quantum cryptography. Currently the team is examining a prototype secure quantum network for implementation in one financial market next year. Forced to explain the upside-down world of quantum physics, Michael has written his most obscure paper to date, and that’s saying something – maybe it’s because this time he knows something about what he’s doing.
Z/Yen is offering free paper (covered on one side with portions of Michael’s work) to any insomniac clients and friends. Just ask Jane Beazley for a copy. |
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The
annual Z/Yen Christmas stuffing took place at Caldesi, our favourite Tuscan
restaurant. Z/Yen staff bravely fought their way through six courses, including
Jane Beazley’s birthday cake, as well as through one badly mangles Christmas
carol, to the tune of "D-Mark! Z/Yen Angels Sing". Contrary to our
seasonal hopes, the heavens did not flood the party with D-Marks (current
currency of choice in the run-up to the Euro, as recommended by one
self-interested wife), nor were angels or singing much in evidence. A great time
was had by all and huge relief sighed by the restaurant staff when they realised
that Z/Yen people were not going to conduct quantum physics experiments on their
fibre optic Christmas tree.
Sticking
his neck out even further than usual, Michael Mainelli has become heavily
involved in working on computing’s next generation (no rekkie jokes) – the
quantum computer.