I just got back from four awesome days of skiing in Vail and Beaver Creek.
The Colorado resorts have a really cool new way of handling the ski passes, instead of clipping a tag on your jacket you now get a credit card with an RFID chip in it. Talk …
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more ...Its official folks, I'm ready to head home. The ITiCSE conference is over. The paper has been presented, I've been to a dozen or more sessions. I'm tired. I'd like to get something to eat, but all the restaurants in the area are not even open for dinner yet, and …
more ...Well, I'm through security. Sitting in Segafredo Zanetti, enjoying a very nice Israeli Chardonnay. Everyone told me to get to Ben Gurion at least 3 hours before my flight so that I could get through the security process. Now I understand why. These people are serious about their security.
When …
more ...Sitting in the lobby of the Hotel Safari this morning. We've checked out and are just hanging here until about 11:00 before we head to the airport. It seems like a lifetime ago that we checked in here, exhausted, and grubby after 39 hours of travel from the USA …
more ...Well, here we are on the B2 not 55km from Windhoek and the Safari Hotel. Suddenly our coach makes a very bad noise and we begin to coast down the road. Joey looks rather concerned. We coast to a stop and pull over to the side of the road. One …
more ...It really does remind you of a scene out of Dune, and at times its like you are on another world. The sand is so fine, but yet its not dusty, its clean. This is the Namib Desert, the oldest desert in the world and home to the worlds largest …
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From Penduka we went on to the Heroe's Acre. This is a huge monument to commemorate the Namibian Freedom Fighters. Its so interesting to see this history of their struggle for freedom in a country that is Barely 30 years old. Here's a picture of Josh Martin from the base …
more ..."You must really like to fly" was the comment of the flight attendant from Scotland on our British Air flight from Heathrow to Johannesburg. What prompted the statement was my comment that I would have the curried chicken because "that was good last night." -- We'll return to the concept of …
more ...Wow, We were just here and just on this very same boat ride. I wrote about it here: http://blog.bonelakesoftware.com/2011/02/hiking-in-iguazu-national-park.html. Now today I find out that two American tourists have died doing that same excursion.
Apparently the boat hit some rocks and flipped over …
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