travel - Fastidious Elegance

Conferences and Tantrums

It's been a rough couple of weeks, but now I am in the midst of a rather interesting semi-technical conference. I'm presenting here to a crowd much more diverse and varied than I am used to, so this will be very interesting. The reception was nice,

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Like a baby tethered by that blasted unbreakable nylon harness

So, I guess we won't be making it to the Harvest party this year. :( As it turns out, a dog had other plans for us, and apparently, he had a particularly disliking for our car. Indeed, this dog-like creature (or so it seemed from the dark, black shiny

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Plane Ride

I thought I would take this moment to talk about a neat little plane ride I had. It was actually two flights, since there was a connection.So the first flight I noticed that I had come in rather late and was the priveleged recipient of the middle seat. :) Isn&

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Updates to Opera, Strange Chess Game

Just a little notice for you all that there is a new version of Opera out, that fixes a security issue with the *NIX version of their software, as well as some other enhancements and bug fixes. Definitely go and download it.In other opera news, the community has just

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Slow posting schedule over the Holidays

So yeah, I've been a little out of the internet over these holiday seasons; that is a good thing. I have been spending some more time with the rest of my family, which is definitely a good thing.I am going to be getting back to work pretty

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Stoning Nate Wilson

Yes, for those of you who have heard the stories, we stoned Nate Wilson at the Trinity Fest, if you want to go and see it for yourself, we have the video (Quicktime 7 H.264) for you on my website's Videos page.

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I've been busy...traveling

Talk about absolutely amazing. I loved my little trip to visit the Swetnam family. I think it had a very different feel to it than the other two “physical” meetings that we have had. In the last two meetings—if that is what you can call them—were really more

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Road Warrior

I was just thinking today about all the travelling I do, and I was thinking that it's kind of nice. I like having a small suitcase or two that requires little maintainance. It's pretty neat. And actually, I don't mind being on the road