Posted in Misc on April 9th, 2009 1 Comment »
I don’t think anything could have prepared me for Beijing. In the US, we’re led to believe that China is a communist state, a.l.a. the former Soviet Union, but the people of China are capitalists to the extreme!
Kevin and Shinling, our local hosts, were a lot of fun to hang out with, but I [...]
Posted in Misc on April 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
After a couple of late night and early morning conference calls, and breakfast where I actually wrote and sent a first batch of postcards, on Saturday it was time to head to Incheon airport to depart for Beijing. Incheon is approximately an hour from Seoul by car (with train service still under construction). [...]
Posted in Tech on April 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
I spent a couple of hours at the N. Seoul Tower in the morning on Friday. The views were both amazing, and disappointing because of the amount of smog that blows in from South Korea’s neighbor on the west. N. Seoul Tower is sort of like putting the Space Needle or CN Tower [...]
Posted in Misc on April 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
My first impression of Seoul: What an amazingly modern, clean city. Incheon airport is shockingly clean and modern, customs was a breeze, luggage retrieval fast, and my ride was waiting and drove me to the Shilla on the most modern highway I’ve ever been on.
After flying in daylight, I arrived at my room in [...]