I took a trip by plane to Düsseldorf two days ago and was wondering about the "in flight display" that they had on their viewscreens. You know: the kind that alternates between a nifty 3D view of the outside landscape and some nice infos: speed, time to destination and similar stuff ( Read more... )

Sooo... let's start at the beginning: it's Thursday evening and I return home after three days of teaching a rather high end course which took quite some energy from me. Combine that with my stomache acting up on Tuesday/Wednesday and only sleeping 1 and 5 hours these days you can guess how much travel preparations I got done when I got home. Right ( Read more... )

Just HAD to type a journal today ( Read more... )

...or more likely my ( odyssey... )

...can be weird at times. But when you are told "hey, there's a course going on near Amsterdam, we'd like you to attend" by your biggest customer, you can't just say "no", can you? even if it means overnight travel and next to no time for any preperation due to a full schedule to begin with.

So: I'm here. I'm tired. I'm off to bed. :)

( My report/travel log )

What a day... After a very nice 10am breakfast on the balcony of my hotel room, a nice cup of coffee outside the nearest Starbucks with rolled up shirt sleves I arrived at Vienna to be greeted with falling snow :( Mew! I'm not a snow-kitty!

...to Cyprus again. Not that I mind it - it's more than 20°C warmer than in Austria. -4°C compared to a bit over +20°C. Nice. And it's a payed job again. Also nice.

( B-U-T... )

...and boy...did that return flight suckHere's the rundown of what causes me to say so ( Read more... )

I'm currently on Cyprus in my hotel. It's nice, even though it's not summer anymore. But one thing drives me mad: the internet is only available in the lobby here. ARGH! Won't be able to join FPS live - at least not for the entire show ( Read more... )