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Florida Sunsets
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posted Monday, October 21, 2002 10:52 AM (Comments Off)

At the beach and meeting a friend of Katja
Today was just a pretty lazy vacational day. Went to the beach and later visited a friend of Katja whom she got to know due to her addiction to Everquest. Greg invited us to a great steakhouse in this area and after dinner we went to B&N (+ Starbucks). Read More
posted Sunday, October 20, 2002 10:51 AM (Comments Off)

Did we find the paradise?
It struck like lightning: there's no decent coffee in the outbacks. No Starbucks. No nothing. Fortunately, there's caffeine in cans available - important straight from Austria where I live. And yes, I'm just so slightly addicted to caffeine Read More
posted Saturday, October 19, 2002 10:52 PM (Comments Off)

Boston, MA to Orlando, FL in a nap's time
Yes, we did it! We really got up at 4:00. It took as more than one and a half hour to get ready and leave for Boston airport. After getting lost, finding the way again, returning the rental car and taking the shuttle to the airport we still arrived way Read More
posted Friday, October 18, 2002 10:52 PM (Comments Off)

WIN-DEV - Part 2
Fine. Today's the day. My first talk in the US. Good signs for all superstitious people: bright, sunny - alas chilly - day again. Slept until about eight, been in bed until nine, did some final touch-ups of my slides and demos until eleven. Went to the Read More
posted Thursday, October 17, 2002 10:51 PM (Comments Off)

WIN-DEV - Part 1
Got up way too early - 7am - to be ready for the first day of WIN-DEV. As this is the first conference I'd speak at in the US, I really wanted to sit in on at least one other talk before doing my talks tomorrow. You'll never know ... Summary: Read More
posted Wednesday, October 16, 2002 10:51 PM (Comments Off)

Getting in conference mood
Katja's sick today. Argh. I basically spent the time with answering some emails, hacking some stuff and later this day met a bunch of DM guys and Wintellectuals at the WIN-DEV speaker dinner. Sushi! Read More
posted Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:50 PM (Comments Off)

First day in Nashua, NH
Start of WIN-DEV Week. When a week starts as shown in the following photo (taken right from my hotel room), can anything go wrong? Bright, sunny day. Unfortunately also quite chilly here in New England. Feels like home ... Read More
posted Monday, October 14, 2002 10:50 PM (Comments Off)

Stayed at Sam's
Stayed at Sam's. Thanks again, Sam! After lunch, Katja and I left for some more leaves and checked into the conference hotel in Nashua. Not too many new discoveries today, apart from the fact that the conference hotel is supposed to look like an ancient Read More
posted Sunday, October 13, 2002 11:49 AM (Comments Off)

Party at Sam's
Katja and I have been at Sam's and together with his family went up to White Mountains for some foliage peeping.   Sam and me. Who is who? Katja  After returning back to Sam's (where we were stayed for the Read More
posted Saturday, October 12, 2002 11:49 AM (Comments Off)

Web Services Dev Con (Part 2)
Tough, tough, tough ... this conference isn't going to give me any break. After spending a great day with quite a number of interesting talks, the bloggers went out for dinner: I hope that this conference was as much fun for you as it was for me. It Read More
posted Friday, October 11, 2002 11:49 AM (Comments Off)

Web Services Dev Con (Part 1)
First and foremost: This conference was tough! It basically was about eight or nine talks a day, with very short breaks in between. Content, content, content! Count on me for next year's DevCon. (BTW. I won't blog any of the talks as Brian Jepson Read More
posted Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:48 AM with 1 Comments

Sam's COM interop talk
Today we could be found attending Sam's talk at the Boston .NET User Group where we met Brian and Jesse. If anyone's wondering: That's Katja sitting next to Jesse. I could snag this photo even though I've been heavily involved in Sam's Read More
posted Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:48 AM (Comments Off)

New England Aquarium & MIT
Today Katja and I have been to the New England Aquarium in Boston. If you ever happen to spend some time in this area and are somehow interested in maritim life - and not just the one you'll get at Legal Sea Foods - I really recommend going Read More
posted Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:48 AM (Comments Off)

Not too much going on ...
Not too much has been going on today. I basically sat at my computer completing all the slides for yet another upcoming conference in Germany. The good thing is that I've now completed the slide submissions for all of this year's conferences. Read More
posted Monday, October 07, 2002 11:47 AM (Comments Off)

Boston Freedom Trail & US food
News from Boston: Great weather around! We had a perfect day for our planned walk today. Katja and I started around noon, went downtown by underground and had breakfast in the city (Starbucks!). Minutes later, we could be found on a taxi ride back Read More
posted Sunday, October 06, 2002 8:30 PM (Comments Off)

Dinner with Sam, Remoting internals talk
Welcome folks to a new day of Boston travel reporting! Today weather was great in the Boston suburbs. I however had to spend most of the day with finishing my slides for an upcoming German conference. I can tell you, I really know a lot more about Read More
posted Saturday, October 05, 2002 6:02 PM (Comments Off)

Looks like this day will be great again ...
Looks like it's going to be a nice day in Boston again Update: No it isn't ;-) Read More
posted Friday, October 04, 2002 7:10 AM (Comments Off)

Getting lost and some more of yesterday's photos
Today Katja and I became masters in getting lost. After picking up the rental car we managed to get lost for the first time when going from Boston to Somerville (don't laugh!) and the second time when looking for an indian restaurant which is shown Read More
posted Thursday, October 03, 2002 9:13 PM (Comments Off)

First day in Boston
Today's been our first day in Boston. This city rocks! The weather was brilliant ("today is going to be one of the ten best days in the year") and Katja and I spent quite some time sitting in Boston Common and doing exactly nothing (apart from her getting Read More
posted Wednesday, October 02, 2002 8:28 PM (Comments Off)

First day in Somerville, MA
I'm currently staying with my girlfriend in Somerville, near Boston, MA. Our flight was great, weather is brilliant. The only hard part is having a steak in the evening when your body thinks it's 2 a.m. Read More
posted Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:06 PM (Comments Off)

Disclaimer for the next five weeks
Ok folks, this weblog will be non-technical for the next five weeks. I'm just going to write it as a travel diary with a very specific audience: "me in one, two and five years". This also means that I'll back-date some posts to match the "real" dates Read More
posted Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:01 PM (Comments Off)


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