I am freshly returned from WMCKA ’09. It was quite splendid. Things really started the day before the symposium when the guest presenter Jeff Allen put on a day class on incident management. The general progression started with off the water organization and communication, on the water assessment of a… Continue reading
Yeah, RC1 is out now, I haven’t gotten it yet. I wasn’t planning on having time to use it and didn’t want to download it when all the tubes were clogged in the first few days. So, some additional thoughts on Win7 Beta: The good: There’s a neat feature where… Continue reading
So, yeah, it’s 3am and I should be asleep. But, I had work to do and while that was going I decided to scrap my desktop install and put Windows 7 on there instead. I really wasn’t to enthralled with 64-bit XP – it seemed just a bit out of… Continue reading
Some random photos from the set I took while in Shanghai. Some take around the city itself, others from the aquarium. Aquariums and zoos are always good camera fodder. The skyline looking across the river. Because, when you have an LED display the size of a building, you shoulddisplay fireworks…. Continue reading
Over the past few weeks it’s occurred to me how much more time than normal it takes to accomplish certain tasks. There a slight issue with language, but it’s more the unfamiliarity with the procedures. When in an unfamiliar area, tasks that would be standard at home need to be… Continue reading
So, Saturday night, we all went out for a nice dinner. It was a very nice dinner. That being said, there are two cultural differences that came up. First, I had forgotten about the Asian way of drinking at dinner though. It’s completely acceptable, and rather encouraged it would seem,… Continue reading
On February 16th, Josh and I took off from Grand Rapids with a final destination of Shanghai, China. Our mission was to spend a little over a week serving as support for a customer’s supplier’s plant trial. The work details are largely confidential, but conveniently also rather uninteresting to most… Continue reading
On the events of today. I was going to go to the North American International Auto Show to run my yearly scans of what vehicles exist which might be suitable replacements in case the Jeep up and dies as it is likely to do. Instead I woke up at noon,… Continue reading
Going out for dinner while on work travel can be absolutely fantastic. Tonight was a fine example with some nice filet mignon and scallops. It also makes me feel rather gluttonous, not really because we ate that much, but because it cost 4-5 times what a meal really should. But… Continue reading
Well, since the show doesn’t start until tomorrow, and it’s restricted access, I think it would be wise for me to not throw pictures of our booth up here quite yet. Trust me though, it’s sexy – easily at the same level as the best of them. Instead, you can… Continue reading