I’m not sure of the exact date at the moment, but sometime in mid July, Todd and Linda had organized a kayaking trip to Lime Island in the UP / Canada. The plan was to get to the launch around 5:30 on Friday evening and head over to the Island… Continue reading
WPC 21 took place in Qingdao China… honestly, not my favorite place to visit. I had been to Qingdao once before for a quick business visit, but to a more industrial area. This time we were staying in a hotel on the coast – I guess this is somewhat of… Continue reading
Dinner’s in half an hour, so if I’m quick I’ll get some initial pictorial impressions from Bangalore up here before then… We went on a bit of a sight-seeing tour the first day, the highlights of which were the 240 acre Botanical Gardens and the Bangalore Palace. And, with that,… Continue reading
Things are a bit slow here at the moment, so I bring you this picture that I took last night out my hotel window: Unknown Church in Eindhoven
This actually has nothing at all to do with Halloween other than the time stamp on this picture. Took a little trip to Indiana Dunes State Park and captured this gorgeous industrial horizon sunset. Mmmmmmm… pollution!
GPS tracklog overlay. The above was made at GPS Visualizer. It makes some very nice plots, and has a lot of configuration options. The only downside is that because it’s all done through a web interface, there’s a lot of slow iterations to find the settings that work. In that… Continue reading
Last weekend I had a chance to add a new island to the kayaking repertoire. Doug, Callum and I had been to South Manitou a few years back. This time, Todd and Linda were making a quick trip to the North island. The trip was fist planned a week earlier,… Continue reading
First extended weekend of the year = first kayaking trip of the year. At least that’s the goal. With this in mind, on Tuesday, I put out a suggestion that I wanted to do some version of the Mackinaw City to Mackinac Island / Round Island trip. It’s short notice,… Continue reading
Tour of Asia 2: The Pictures The last entry was posted with some haste due to a departing plane. Also, these two combined would result in an overly long entry I think. So, here we have some additional thoughts, comments and pictures from my second trip ’round Asia. We had… Continue reading
Yesterday I flew out of Tokyo to Beijing after my first trip to Japan. The trip was a three day event focused on meeting potentially key eCoupled customers. At the same time, the Wireless Power Consortium was meeting, so many coworkers were also on travel for that reason. It snowed… Continue reading