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Portland, Day Three

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

No wake-up call this time. Not even the one I had actually requested. Fortunately I am still insufficiently adjusted to the time zone change and thus I was awake in good time anyway.
Back to the conference center, wherein we discover we have gained two new faces. Well, not literally, nobody grew a second head or [...]

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Portland, Day Two

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I got punked. The person who had stayed in the hotel room before me had apparently requested a 5:45 am wake-up call, and this hadn’t been cleared from the system. I had been needing to be up at about 6:30 in order to be ready to head out by 8:00 for a day-long offsite meeting. [...]

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Portland!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

ROC – ORD
At 5:30 this morning, having woken up at ludicrous o’clock for shower and breakfast and the usual morning things, I was picked up by one of my co-workers on the way to the laughably-named Greater Rochester International Airport for a 7:25 flight. Since my last flight from a US airport had been back [...]

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Anyone got a coin I can flip?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Perhaps the only silver lining to the twin catastrophes of Ike and Lehman is that the media dust is finally settling on McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin for running mate. With that in mind, I’m going to try to look at both tickets with as strong a hype-filter as I can muster.
First of all, I [...]

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In appreciation of Argentinean soccer

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on September 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I may be the first and only Englishman ever to write these words; indeed, even to think them might be called heretical if not downright treasonous.
That said, England haven’t given me much to shout from the rooftops about, unless I wish to spend a great deal of time shouting ‘fuck’.
Besides, I tend to appreciate good [...]

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Something to remember…

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As the world limps on through an unending torrent of bloodshed and pain, it would perhaps behoove us all to think about what this date is the anniversary of.
One hundred and two years ago, on this very date, a man named Mohandas K. Gandhi organized the first of many efforts at non-violent civil resistance. His [...]

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