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After spending more hours than I'd wanted, last week, digging into working with the Kinect (as well as keeping up with my normal, day-to-day activities), it was nice to disconnect totally over the weekend. On Saturday I spent most of the day relaxing in the garden, getting it ready for summer, but on Sunday we […]
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I'm back in Switzerland after an incredible week in India. Much of the week was spent in internal meetings – 1-on-1 discussions with members of the DevTech team in Bangalore, as well as a full day of team meetings – but I also had the chance to unwind and enjoy a truly historic event, India's […]
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It was a productive 10-day trip to the US: 7 performance reviews (6 delivered, 1 received), many presentations (3 delivered by me, one of which was Pecha Kucha-style) and probably a dozen or so 1-on-1 meetings with team members, as well as going through the Birkman Method with my direct team and peers. Altogether a […]
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Earlier today, while transiting between flights from Geneva to San Francisco in Heathrow, I overheard one security agent describing the perfect "pat down" to a colleague: "You need to get them to hold their arms out wide. Not like that lady who kept her elbows by her sides, with her hands flapping around like one […]
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Yesterday my two sons – who are now 6 and 4, both great ages – managed to get me to sit (several times, of course) on a whoopee cushion. Which brought back many fond memories of my brother and I playing similar tricks at around that age. What amazed me most was how the technology […]
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I'm back online after a great week in the Alps. One of the best parts of being back at home is having the chance to build my Christmas present – the LEGO Death Star. At 3,803 pieces, it's a bit of a monster: I could really have used a set of 3D instructions, but had […]
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Thank you all for reading and participating in this blog during 2010. It's your comments and feedback that make it all worthwhile, at least from my perspective. ("If a blog post gets written and no-one's around to read it, why bother spell-checking?" 😉 I'm heading off to the Alps this afternoon with my family: we've […]
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Things were going so well on this year's DevDays tour. Then, as Jeremy reported on his blog, the best-laid plans of mice and men unravelled, thanks to the severe weather conditions that have been hitting the UK. Despite the bad news in the weather, yesterday morning, I was still reasonably (foolishly?) optimistic about my own […]
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Just back from a great little break: yesterday we drove across and spent the day at the Swiss Museum of Transport in Luzern (more on that in a bit), before having dinner at the Rathaus Brauerie opposite the Kapellbrucke. Then we spent the night at the Hotel Bellevue, a very friendly hotel near the edge […]
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I started working at Autodesk 15 years ago on August 29th, 1995. Part of me wanted to start this post by saying "it seems like only yesterday that I started working for Autodesk…", but the truth is, it doesn't. It feels longer, but not for bad reasons: mainly because so much has happened in the […]