Dylan Schiemann

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 […]

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, […]

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: View 2009 Trip in a larger map

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 […]

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 zone closer […]

I’m a bit behind on these posts due to imperfect hotel internet connections. On April 9th, QCon Tokyo began. But first a few initial observations: ATMs: hard to get cash, as most only work with Japanese cards, and many stores don’t take American credit cards. It also helps if you try to withdraw $300 instead […]

On Tuesday, I gave my talk at QCon about the Open Web, which was well attended and received. The use of professional real-time translators was an interesting change from every other talk I have conducted previously. I don’t think the translators were able to keep up with my pace, so I forced myself to talk […]

I’m behind on my blog posts about Beijing and Tokyo which were both incredible and amazing, but I’ll catch up after I arrive in Queenstown New Zealand after an 11+ hour flight to Auckland and a short flight to Queenstown! I can’t wait to see the reversal of the coriolis effect for the first time […]

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 at Griffith […]

My lengthy trip begins today with the short PHX to LAX segment before flying to Seoul tomorrow. If you’re in Seoul, Beijing, Tokyo, Queenstown, Auckland, Sydney, Amsterdam, Munich, London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Stockholm, Dublin, Milan, or Paris, hopefully you can make it to one or more of the Dojo events (Dojo dinner/beer and workshops) or conferences […]