Most of my friends – well, my ”employees“ – at hotels-in.com think I’m just one more big shot dot-com millionaire, and that I’m just trying to get richer with hotels-in.com.

I see it a bit differently. Okay, so it’s true that I’m seriously rich, as far as I’m concerned. And it’s also true that I know Palo Alto like the back of my hand. Yeah I’m just another .com guy who skimmed off a nice chunk of change between about ’99 and 2001. I like to call them the “Platinum Years.” I did the whole bit: started my benders off with a couple of bottles of Cristal the club, the celebrities, the women, the cars…

But hey, I’m a red-blooded human with my own feelings and aesthetic style.

The facts are:

I like to travel. I like to feel good when I travel. I can afford it. So I stay at premium hotels like the Adlon in Berlin or the Landmark Mandarin in Hong Kong. I’m also really into any and all technology, and thanks to my connections at Apple, I’ll have the newest iPhone before most people do.

So if you like to sleep in luxury and don’t mind rates of $800 a night (or more), then read the blog posts I write when I get a minute of time in my busy schedule.

Save your threats, criticisms, and heckling for the comments.

Daniel