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Category Archives: Travel
New Hampshire snowscapes, 2009
I’ve added some new photos of New Hampshire snowscapes to my collection of widescreen wallpapers and backgrounds. Click on the thumbnails below to see the full size images.
Chronicles of a trip home
This last week I had the pleasure to travel to Tunis, Tunisia, in North Africa, to speak at the Conference on Open Source Software. In another post I’ll put up some photos of my two hour tourist time in Carthage … Continue reading
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Event and conference listing for Linux and open source in 2010
I’ve started putting together a listing of open source and Linux events that will take place in 2010 around the world. The list is small right now, but if you add a comment here or send me a message via … Continue reading
3 days, 3 photos of Boston
I spent parts of Wednesday through Friday this week in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and never really went into Boston except for getting to and from the airport. Nevertheless, since the two cities are separated only by the Charles River, Boston was … Continue reading
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The joy of having a hotel at the airport
Sunday morning 6:00 AM Wake up at hotel at airport. 6:30 AM Walk out of the hotel. 6:35 AM Have boarding pass in hand and bag is checked. 6:43 AM Through security (there was a bit of a line). 6:47 … Continue reading
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8th Annual Southern California Linux Expo
I just saw notice of the 8th Annual Southern California Linux Expo now scheduled for February 19-21, 2010 at the Westin Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport. While I’ve never attended this conference in person (why be in LA in … Continue reading
Two photos from my trip
I was in Portland, Oregon, this last week for LinuxCon. Portland is a beautiful city and other than trying to capture a sunrise on my iPhone, I didn’t take any photos. Here are a couple from my travel to and … Continue reading
Name that house
On Friday and Saturday I was in eastern New York / western Massachusetts. Can you name the house I’m standing in front of in the photo and its significance? [Answer: Big Pink, as in this.]
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A hike in Letchworth State Park, NY
This afternoon my son and I went for a hike in Letchworth State Park, about 35 miles south of Rochester, NY. We don’t live too far from the park, so we only planned to spend an hour or two there. … Continue reading
LinuxCon discounted registration and my keynote
I’m giving one of the keynotes at LinuxCon coming up in a few weeks and the folks over at the Linux Foundation told me about a special registration discount. If you use code 35TWT at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon you can get $175 … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 31, 2009 – Morning Edition
Open Source Four Things Open Source Projects Should Know About Dealing with the Press IT World / Esther Schindler The first step for any open source project that wants to be discovered is to make yourself discoverable. A journalist who’s … Continue reading
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Quack
I’m working today in an IBM office building in a major city, whereas I usually operate out of my home office when I’m not on the road. I arrived early today and that turned out to be a good idea … Continue reading
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Checking in
Last week was one of those weeks that never seemed to end, and the days all blended together. Part of it was the workload, but another was knowing that I needed to get up early on Saturday morning to start … Continue reading
Oh, Atlanta
My long seven day trip abroad to Europe is coming to a close. After visiting London, Bern, and Stuttgart, I’m now in the Atlanta International airport waiting for my connecting flight home. While it appears to be about 75F and … Continue reading
Twelve minutes
This has been a pretty busy couple of weeks. I realized yesterday that over the last nine days I have slept in five different hotels, once on an airplane, and only three times at home. Things will improve a lot … Continue reading
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March Travel Madness
I’m in the midst of four consecutive weeks of business travel. It more or else looked liked this. Two weeks ago I drove from northwest New York to southern Connecticut for an IBM analyst event. Six hundred miles there, night … Continue reading
Open Source Business Conference 2009
I’ll be giving the final morning keynote at OSBC, the Open Source Business Conference, in San Francisco on March 25. The title of my talk will be “Open Source, Linux, and a Smarter Planet”.
OpenSource World call for papers ends on Friday
If you were thinking of submitting a paper to the OpenSource World conference in San Francisco, August 12-13, the call for papers ends this Friday.
First trip of the year
I’m at the Rochester, NY, airport waiting for my flight, which is now over one hour and thirty minutes late. I did have a two hour and thirty minute connection time in Chicago, but that is diminishing as I watch. … Continue reading
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Introducing the events calendar
Two year’s ago when my wife Judith was running for the New York State Assembly, I wrote a simple events calendar for her website to keep track of all the local meetings, parades, and county fairs where she would be … Continue reading
Daily Links 11/20/2008 (p.m.)
Christian Renaud’s Weblog: Lively heads for the giraffe graveyard “Google announced yesterday on their blog that they are shuttering the Lively project. This is unfortunate for multiple reasons” tags: OB, Google, Lively InternetNews Realtime IT News – Sun Expands MySQL … Continue reading
Video of my Web 2.0 Summit talk
The video of my talk “Smaller, Flatter, Smarter” at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco is now available via blip.tv or my original blog entry on the topic.
East coast, west coast + “smarter planet”
As far as I am concerned, today is the first day of “meteorological Winter” where I live in western New York. Though we only got freezing rain this morning, folks about 45 minutes west of us got 5 or 6 … Continue reading
OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2008) in Beijing
Next week Beijing will host the OpenOffice.org Annual International Conference (OOoCon). The event runs from November 5 through 7. I will not be attending, though several of my IBM colleagues will be there. I did go to the event two … Continue reading
Athens
Last Friday I was in Pretoria, South Africa. Today, Monday, I am in Bucharest, Romania. As we were planning this trip, a key question was how would I get from one city to the other and what would I do … Continue reading
Pretoria ODF Users Workshop
I’m a bit tardy in reporting what happened last week at the Second International ODF Users Conference, held in Pretoria, South Africa. This was the first time I was ever in Africa, much less South Africa, and so I was … Continue reading
Ah, Pretoria!
I arrived in Pretoria this evening in order to attend the ODF Users Workshop being held here on Thursday and Friday. I’m excited to be here for a couple of reasons. First, I wasn’t able to attend last year’s meeting … Continue reading
On to South Africa
I’m in Dulles Airport in Washington on my way to Pretoria, South Africa, for the International ODF User Conference. I flew here from Chicago, where I visited my daughter at college. I’m trying to get more comfortable with finding my … Continue reading
Travel good luck … makes me nervous
This afternoon I was scheduled on a 4:45 flight out of Rochester, NY, to Washington, DC. Unless I have other business near the airport, I usually leave home about two hours before my flight. That gets me there with more … Continue reading
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Those two special words
Nothing brings the joy to my heart after a nine hour flight from Europe than to look up at the departure screen at Chicago’s O’Hare airport for my connection home and see “Flight Canceled”. That happened today, and so I’m … Continue reading
