I’m writing this from a hotel room in Santa Monica in California. I’m on holiday here with my lovely wife Lynn and our two equally gorgeous daughters, Eilish and Maddie, and am about to embark on an RV trip across America to Orlando in Florida.

Lynn will attend a conference on digital scrapbooking at Disneyland in Orlando in a fortnight if we make it. I’ll tell her story about how she came to be a digital design exporter (earning a lot more than me…) in this blog at a later date.  Suffice to say, this trip will more than pay for itself in US dollar earnings.

I’ll try to blog about the trip and what I learn from an economic and business point of view as often as I can. It should turn out a lot easier to do than in New Zealand. Free cable broadband or WiFi access

Airspan Networks, Inc., global supplier of broadband wireless access solutions, continues to face down the worldwide credit crisis through creative and aggressive strategies to cap or reduce costs. Successful achievement of targeted cost reductions, coupled with an increase in outstanding shares, has resulted in an improvement in per share performance, supporting Airspan’s ongoing drive to profitability. Though still in negative territory, the company’s third quarter per share loss was cut from .24 in 2007 to .13 in 2008, on sales of $17.8 million. Total operating expenses were reduced from the second quarter 2008 by 14%.

Airspan’s President and CEO, Eric Stonestrom, detailed the company’s plans to deal with the growing worldwide financial crisis. “We have focused our efforts on achieving our planned cost reductions and we will continue to extend our efforts in the light of the current economic environment. Our goal is to accelerate our efforts to achieve profitability