A couple of the Microsoft guys in Ireland were showing off the new HTC HD2 smartphone with Windows Mobile 6.5. While they were willing to show it, they weren’t willing for me to leave with one myself! A couple of observations: – the screen is beautiful. The marketing […]
My day and a half in Ireland are basically done, and it’s time to head to my final destination before going back to New Zealand. I’ve been away since February … it feels like a long time now. I’m looking forward to being back. Anyhow … The two […]
I’ve been in Europe for 12 days now; will be back in New Zealand in 4 days. With having to totally reverse my wake / sleep pattern due to the 12 hour time difference between where I normally live and where I’ve been working for the past few […]
Why is your team not performing at its best? Nicholas Bate suggests three reasons. Don’t focus on the small slice!
Got to my hotel in London last night at 10pm. Slept (fitfully). Up at 6am for breakfast, then took the bus back to Heathrow. Did the security checks, got on the plane, flew to Ireland, found the taxis were on strike, so experienced the bus from the Dublin […]
I took the Airport Express train to and from the city (Oslo) when I was there on Tuesday. There is a lot of … snow … around. It’s beautiful, but I got the sense that people there are looking forward to spring. It was my first time in […]
Gotta love the street names in Oxford!
Week 2 of my European Tour is well underway. This is the crazy of the two weeks: – Sunday … sleep in London – Monday … work in London, fly to Norway, sleep in Norway – Tuesday … workshop in Norway, fly to London, sleep in London – […]
It’s Saturday morning in London, almost 9am, and I’m at Paddington Station awaiting a train to Oxford. I’ve already walked from my hotel in High Holborn to Oxford Circus station (nice brisk walk on a brisk morning), navigated the Underground to get to Paddington, and purchased my return […]
My earliest memory of flying is from 1978, when my family flew from Zambia to New Zealand (we definitely transited through Singapore, but where else we went I don’t recall). The plane was a British Airways 747, and as a 6 year old kid, it was amazing. My […]
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