As planned before we left Australia, on Tuesday we visited the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum's Steven F Udvar-Hazy Centre (I dare you to say that while doing a 4G inverted loop!). The centre is home to thousands of NASM exhibits that they never had space to publicly display until generous public donations (the … Continue reading Us at the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Centre
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No updates here for a couple of days, as it appeared that the hotel in DC had no Internet connectivity. So, now from Boston, a little bit of news about what happened in the US Capital.We were delayed arriving thanks to the bad weather around the Great Lakes on Monday night -- our flight from JFK … Continue reading Washington DC was fun
A huge thank-you to Roger's family and friends in Vancouver for some wonderful hospitality and a truly enjoyable and memorable first visit to this fine city! Today was a great day, with more teriffic weather.We visited the Capilano Suspension Bridge, Grouse Mountain (and yes, Aussies, it is grouse!), Deep Cove, Gastown, Granville Island, and Fisherman's Wharf … Continue reading Vancouver ROCKS!
I blame Sony. If it weren't for the fact that my Sony DSC-F717 broke on the day before leaving for SHARE, I wouldn't have had to break the freeze. So it's their fault I now have a nice new Nikon D50 D-SLR. Sorry Susan. :)I did a bit of research before I left (about 1am Sunday morning, when I … Continue reading So much for the technology freeze…
What a really nice place Vancouver is! I'm having a great time and almost beginning to regret that we didn't plan more time here. The weather today was just great; sunny all day, more like an early-winter day at home.Today's activities saw us at yum-cha (dim-sum here I think, will have to get Roger's confirmation) with some … Continue reading Beautiful Vancouver
This message comes to you from a hotel room in Vancouver Canada, the next stop on Vic and Rog's world tour of 2006! I had a great time in Seattle -- catching up with folks from past SHAREs, and meeting a few mailing-list-buddies for the first time (my work blog and wiki page will be getting … Continue reading Goodbye Seattle, Hello Vancouver!
I've been away from SHARE for far too long. It's really great to hear positive things about Linux on zSeries again, rather than the crap I have to put up with at home. In Australia, there is no evangelism of zSeries. There's an attitude bordering on arrogance that seems to say "we're not going to explain zSeries … Continue reading Rebooting my belief system
I just flew in from Brisbane: boy, are my arms tired! 🙂 Aww, the oldies are often the best. So here I am, jet lag and all. Flight was uneventful and seemed unusually quick for over 12 hours.The new International Business on Qantas is interesting -- Susan calls the Skybed a "Mork seat" (in reference to the 70's-80's TV … Continue reading Arrived in Seattle
Passed the Novell Certified Linux Professional practicum (exam) yesterday. w00t! Scored 758 out of 800, which I'm told is a "good pass" (and to date, the highest score amongst my workmates). The exam cops a bit of flack in the community, but I found it okay... So now I'm certified!
Nicholas drew his first recognisable artwork the other day: a semi-circle with smaller circular squiggles at each end, which he proudly proclaimed as a "Car!" -- and strike me if it didn't look like a New Beetle too! To dispel any once-off theories, he's repeated it several times. I'll see if I can get an image of … Continue reading Nicholas the artiste
Crossed Wires 