Travel
Travel related Exploits
Scoble is still at CES and ran across a really cool sounding device that allows you to look through it at the sky, it can, through GPS and magnetic positioning determine where you are in relation to the objects in the sky and provide narratives about the objects…. Future…..here we are….
I do live presentations and often with my own equipment. I may have to add one of these to my travel bag…
AutoBlog has some pics up of what I think looks like a super-rugged golf cart but is more suited for off-road use. It is CES worthy because of the Bluetooth setup.
ChipChick is posting about some other interesting items at CES. I have 3 daughters so the pink hard drive seems to have some meaning here for me….
Yahoo! Has a cool CES blog if (like me) you aren’t there and want to stay up on some of the cool stuff….
Cheers!
…I am everywhere…..
I like to travel. Be it personal or work related I normally enjoy it. But I am burning out. I have done quite a bit of cross time zone travel the past month or two and it has worn me down. I am in Anchorage this week. Home on Friday. A week later I hit the East coast with my fiance to attend her mother’s wedding. On the way back I stop in Dallas for a week for a team meeting. Then I get a break…..no more cross time zone travel for about 6 weeks. It will be a working vacation of sorts where I get to spend some much needed home time with my bride to be, catch up on housework, and start blogging regularly again.
I have also given additional thought to how I blog and what I blog about. It isn’t like I want to be Scoble but I would like to increae readership with something valuable. I have been tossing around some media casting ideas with a couple of other co-workers which may come to fruition here in a couple weeks when my travel dies off. I am also going to do some regular posting around Group Policy and ISA. I will likely narrow my categories a little so if you have subscribed to any of the category feeds, please watch them over the next two weeks to see what if any changes I make.
More later…..
Cheers!
Last week I was in Dallas, TX attending the SQL PASS seminar. I went to Karaoke one night, closed the bar down, and on the drive back to my hotel I noticed a flashing TIME/TEMP sign on a bank.
1:34am
84 degrees
1:34am
84 degrees
Insane heat for 1:34am….
This week I am in Anchorage, AK. I have not found a Karaoke bar (yet!) so I have not found a blinker to tell me the temp at 1:34am. It would be safe to say though that it won’t be 84 given that it was 47 degrees yesterday afternoon when I landed at 3pm.
Yesterday, while trying to find the only listed PHO restaurant in town, I got a little turned around and had to drive into a subdivision to get going the other direction. Coming around a corner to an intersection, I saw my first live bull moose…..walking in the middle of the road. It was fantastic. Bigger than a horse. I didn’t get a picture of it (didn’t take my camera to dinner with me……I will from now on) but linked to one above. I drove right by this thing and it was massive. Unless you have seen one you can’t appreciate it’s size.
The leaves are turning earthtones of red, yellow with plenty of green pines still. It’s like an autumn bomb exploded and coated the landscape with the fallout of the changing season. The mountains that surround Anchorage are topped with snow and ice which will decend into the town over the next few few weeks and months. I would love to see Anchorage in the dead of winter, I bet it is stunning.
I will get some pictures posted later this afternoon once I have had a chance to run around…..
Cheers!
I happened to be on vacation in London when the bomb scares were going on. In fact, we arrived in London on the 21st, the day of the failed attempts.
We didn’t want to let the recent events deter us so we rode the tubes while we were there….
And one more…..
Cheers!