Travel
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It's now less than a week before my family and I get on a plane and start our big trip: visiting 13 countries on 5 continents (not including the one we're starting from) over the course of 6 months. We leave on July 2nd, 2017, and – if our plans don't change – will return […]
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I'm writing this on a train to Geneva airport from where I'll hop across to the UK for a week. This afternoon I have a meeting in London at the British Library, after which I'll be checking into the Hilton London Metropole where Autodesk is holding its 9th (at least I think that's right, if […]
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It's a beautiful Whit Monday, here in Switzerland – and will probably be a beautiful Memorial Day, when I arrive in San Francisco, this afternoon. I'm heading across the pond to attend an internal technical conference and spend time with other members of my team over the coming fortnight. I have a couple of posts […]
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I'm here, once again, for our annual Developer Day and DevLab, in between Paris (on Friday) and Farnborough (Monday and Tuesday). Others in the team are doing many more dates, so I have it easier, in many ways. Just as I did, last year, I ended up flying from GVA –> ZRH –> MUC to […]
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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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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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I'm just taking a few days off to visit family in Italy. We're sitting in a brand-new EuroCity train on its way from Bern to Milano Centrale. Aside from it being very comfortable – which is new, most of the other times I've made this journey have been in cattle-wagons – it's got one cool […]