Posted in Tech on June 27th, 2009 No Comments »
On April 28th, I was in Amsterdam. After another wonderful brunch at the hotel and working on finishing the slides for my conference presentation, I spent my afternoon at the Van Gogh museum.
Not everyone is a Van Gogh fan, but I generally always have been because I was fascinated by the way his art [...]
Posted in Tech on June 27th, 2009 No Comments »
On April 27, 2009, I woke up and had an amazing breakfast buffet at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky. Their breakfast feast puts to shame almost any other brunch out there.
During the morning, I caught up on work and did a very small amount of shopping and exploring. I retrieved my badge for SpringOne and [...]
Posted in Tech on June 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
On April 26 2009, Nikolai Onken met me at Schiphol airport, and we had a good chance to drive around Amsterdam so I quickly got a nice feel of the city. Amsterdam is a great city with a number of interesting historical buildings, and many many canals and bridges.
As it just a few days [...]
Posted in Tech on June 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Will Riley of Lucid Desktop created a cool video showing a code swarm visualization of the history of the Dojo Toolkit. Thanks Will!
Posted in Tech on June 14th, 2009 No Comments »
On April 25th (ANZAC day!), I slept in a bit and then found a taxi for the airport. ANZAC day is a holiday much like the US Memorial Day, “honouring members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I.” The event made traffic [...]
Posted in Misc, Tech on May 18th, 2009 No Comments »
My first morning in Auckland, April 17th, was met with a nice view of Sky Tower from my room at the Latham:
This was also Day 1 of Web’09, one of the most enjoyable conferences I’ve ever attended. With about 200 attendees, conferences for me are all about the people and the hallway track, and [...]
Posted in Tech on May 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
I slept for a brief amount of time, and then had a very early breakfast again at the Dairy on April 15th with an incredible sunrise:
The BBQ Milford Sound tour bus picked me up at 7:15… the tour guide rocked, knew all the best places to stop along the way to the Milford Sound, told [...]
Posted in Tech on May 1st, 2009 No Comments »
A quick real-time update. I’m traveling around Germany and the Czech Republic for the next 12 days or so… heading to the Rhine River today:
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Posted in Tech on April 29th, 2009 No Comments »
On April 12th, I left Tokyo for New Zealand. My lack of understanding of the size of the Pacific surprised me when I learned that the travel time from Tokyo to New Zealand is approximately the same as Los Angeles to New Zealand.
Anyways, after my final hours in Tokyo, I rode to Narita airport [...]
Posted in Tech on April 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
I’m about 10 days behind on my travel blog… I had a extraordinary time in New Zealand and I’m enjoying Australia before heading to Amsterdam this weekend. Maybe I’ll catch up during the 30 or so hours, door-to-door, of travel from Sydney to Amsterdam. It’s going to be nice being on a time [...]