Month: June 2005

WiFi — 54Mbps
Cost — $7.95/day
Location — Gate C17
Weather — Gorgeous, clear, warm
Destination — Denver, en route to Seattle
Looks like a great day for flying. Seattle weather looks great.
Will be up at RedWest between 15:00-17:00 today. Then back to my hotel at Sea-Tac.
Rambling entry here at the airport. Wondering if this trip will help clear the writer’s block I have been suffering with for the last few days. Ok, not really a block, just more of a distraction. Other things, like the boys and the yard.
Samantha is digging out a patio; at the rate she is going, it will be done by the time I get back from Europe.
See you all on the other side.

Technorati: Seattle, SeaTac, Microsoft Campus

There will be light blogging for the next couple of days as I fly out to Seattle to meet with some folks at MSN and a training for a new customer.
I will check-in and make some comments when I can.
Talk amongst yourselves.

Just spent 20 minutes cleaning my backpack of all the extraneous detritus that I collect moving through my life, adding inportant numbers to my paper address book and being ready to have long periods of time offline during the next couple of weeks, as the World Tour kicks off.
But, it seems that I am moving in the opposite direction to everyone else. Gnomedex, JavaONE: all on the West Coast.
Oh well, it will be fun to be out and about.

Tim Bray writes about Mukhtaran Bibi, a Pakistani woman who was sentenced by her tribal council to be gang-raped as punishment for a crime of honour. [here]
NPR had a great story on her on All Things Considered yesterday (audio here).
The US government continues to covet Pakistan as an ally. I agree that religious freedom is a must for any country; however, religious freedom is outweighed by the need to preserve the equality, dignity, and freedom of all individuals.
Update: Tom Watson has a great commentary on this.

Technorati: Pakistan, foreign affairs, diplomacy, Tim Bray, Mukhtaran Bibi

Ok, the Newest Industry Factory Tour, 2005 continues! With a stop in Seattle already planned for June 21-22, popular demand has forced us to add additional dates!

London: June 26, 27, 28
Hamburg: June 29, 30

Drop me a line if you will be in those cities, and maybe we can do a Blogger Meetup.

And no! I am not going for a suit! Down, Hugh! Down!

And the whole trip looks like it will be handled on BA!

Technorati: London, Hamburg, British Airways

Seriously, Jeremy Zawodny presents the tale of the Yahoo led rescue of ten ducklings from a storm drain on their Sunnyvale campus. [here]
Warning! High “AWWWWWWW! So cute!” Factor.

Technorati: Yahoo, ducks

I don’t. I just checked my blog stats for referrals from search engines.

Technorati outpaces Google. All because I started tagging my posts.
Cool.

Technorati: SEO, Google, Technorati

Ok, this is just weird. Airbus is going to do cold-weather testing of the Airbus A380 in Iqaluit, Nunavut. [here]
Hmmm…this aerodynamic freak is coming to the Canadian Arctic. I’m not sure this is a good thing.

Technorati: Nunavut, Canada, A380, Airbus

My What’s in your/my bag? pics are up.

Technorati: whatsinyourbag, whatsinmybag

At my last job, I moved desks a lot. Not because I was being shuffled from department to department, but because the company was in a constant state of flux, expanding with the Internet Bubble 1.0, and then collapsing on itself.
I often found interesting things when I took up residence at my new desk. Once, I found a huge group of files belonging to finance, detailing many contracts with clients. This lead me to have other concerns, but, oh well, no matter.
My best find is one that I carry to this day: a pen.
Not just any pen. A S.T. Dupont.
It’s engraved with a “sales club” outing date. You remember those? The boondoggles that sales gets as a reward for “good” performance? Well, this was part of the kit for one of those.
It’s black lacquer, heavy, and writes exquisitely. Why someone, even if they were let go and were angry at the company, would leave a work of art such as this behind is beyond me.
And I just rediscovered it at the bottom of my backpack. It feels exquisite sliding over the paper of my Moleskine.
Today is looking up.

Technorati: pens, Writing, gtd, moleskine