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In the last post I shared some experiences from the first half of our two-week trip to the United States. Now we'll look at the second half. After leaving Bethany Beach we headed northwards along the coast, stopping at a few outlets along the way. Shopping in Delaware is presumably a thing because of the […]
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We're back from a wonderful two week break in the United States. In this post and the next I'll share some pictures and talk a little about the experiences we had. Since much earlier in the year we'd planned on spending the holidays in the US with our son who's studying for an exchange year […]
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Here we are again, at the end of another year. This time last year I posted a compilation of Autodesk's holiday greeting messages, and I thought I should do the same for 2024. This year's are very nice: I've been using the one with fairy lights for my Zoom backdrop for the last week or […]
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What seemed like a few short weeks after Autodesk University 2024 in San Diego, last week I was back in the San Francisco Bay Area for internal Autodesk Research meetings. On the Saturday I hopped on a flight from Zurich to San Francisco. The flight itself was comfortable enough - at least it was direct. […]
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Autodesk loves its dogs. You might say it's in the company's DNA. One of my favourite internal Slack channels is #fun-dogs-of-autodesk (the "fun" prefix just indicates it's not business-related). Susan Taylor posted a link to a CBS flashback video there yesterday, which speaks to our long history of welcoming furry friends into the workplace. There […]
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This is a topic I can't quite believe I haven't covered at any point during this blog's existence, as I'm such a huge fan of a) the Neuchâtel region and b) vintage computing. This year marks the 250th anniversary of the creation of the world's first programmable computer, which also happened to be the world's […]
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Last Monday I left my son in Baltimore and headed back to Dulles for a short flight to Toronto to attend internal meetings with our research team. I didn't feel like fighting public transport for 3+ hours to get from Baltimore to Dulles, so took the easy (and much more relaxing) path of taking an […]
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I mentioned last time that I was going to be busy preparing and delivering a number of presentations. I'm happy to say that crazy period has mostly come to a close. It was marked on Friday with the recording of the Autodesk University 2024 class that Håvard Høiby and I will be delivering again soon […]
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Life seems to have shifted quite radically this week, as the summer here in Switzerland starts drawing to a close. A Sunday morning storm reset the temperature to something more autumnal (although these are looking to climb again gradually - we're not completely done with warm days here, thankfully) and all of my three children […]
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I haven't been the the US purely for personal reasons for quite some time. The last time was probably on our round-the-world trip, and interestingly our first stop was in Washington DC. I've just flown across to Dulles, to help my sone get settled into his exchange university. I always love seeing the crazy elevator […]