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Travels with the Laptop - San Diego - Part 2
Places to EatThe one place I didn't eat was the hotel. Again in line with a trend I've noticed the hotel restaurant was a franchise of an up market restaurant, in this case the McCormick & Schmidts steakhouse. I'm not a big steak eater and not a fan if that style of restaurant. The bar was also attached to the restaurant, and was more of a place to ( Read more... ) -
Travels with the Laptop - San Diego - Part 1
San Diego
I love San Diego, it's one of my favorite places to visit. The year we lived here wasn't too much fun for a whole variety of reasons, but even after we moved away I always try and make it back at least once a year. Normally it is for the annual insanity that is Comic-Con International, but this trip was for a different con. Instead of ( Read more... ) -
Talking WIKIs in NYC
Tomorrow I head out for a eight-day trip to New York and Philadelphia the trip will be bookended by the New York Comic-Con and the 2010 XML Conference, with a couple of days in between set aside for meetings in New York.
One of the in-betwen events is the evening of Tuesday, October, 12th at the New York chapter of the STC where I'll be leading an ( Read more... ) -
RIP - Jose Maria Jorge
I just read of the passing of Argentinean artist Jose Maria Jorge. I first came across his work in the British weekly Commando comics. Although I didn't know his name at first, I could always spot his style and in particular his brilliant, and accurate, depictions or various aircraft in action ( Read more... ) -
The iPhone is Dead... Long Live the iPhone.
Lost the whole morning to an emergency iPhone upgrade. The battery on old iPhone 3 decided to stop holding its charge, so the easiest fix was to upgrade to an iPhone 4 ( Read more... ) -
Farewell San Diego
Hanging out in my hotel room before heading to the airport for the trip home from San Diego and Lavacon ( Read more... ) -
A good book day.
Yesterday was a good book day.
My new book "WIKI: Grow Your Own For Fun & Profit" has started shipping from B&N.com even though it isn't officially launched for another two weeks - and they are offering a 28% discount. - You can find it here.Although for some strange reason it's not showing up at Amazon yet, even though they have all the ( Read more... ) -
Shade.
He arrived in our lives 13 years ago as a small bundle of black fur supported by feet that were way too large and big ears infested with mites - he was suffering from a cold and sniffles too ( Read more... ) -
Travels with the Laptop
Way back in the last decade when I was on the road about 80% of the time I had the idea of starting taking notes for a possible book on life as a business traveller: a mix of hints, tips, reviews, and tales from the road. I even made a couple of attempts at starting it, but it never seemed to go beyond a couple of entries ( Read more... )