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Nov
6
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Against my own previous advice on not traveling during the winter - I'll be traveling over the next couple of weeks.
Later this week I'll be in New York talking about Security and Identity in SOAs at the InfoWorld SOA Exec. Forum (the session is on Thursday @ 12.10pm). It's been several months since my last (extended) stay in New York and I must admit I'm looking forward to it; though I'm not going to have much time to look around - my schedule is pretty packed.
As soon as I get back on Thursday - I'm meeting Superpat at RedHat's HQ in Raleigh for his talk on digital identity at TriLUG; then we're being joined by the rest of his family on Friday.
Next week I'll be at ApacheCon in Atlanta for some meetings and will likely attend some of the more business-oriented tracks; and obviously Dave's talk on Apache Roller. Looks like there are a lot of fellow Sunnies there - should be a good opportunity to put some faces to email addresses.
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Mar
18
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[the title is a reference to the song "Englishman in New York" by Sting]
For the second time this year (and we're only 3 months in) I'm stranded. Last month it was Washington, this time New York (note to self - don't travel between November and May). I was supposed to leave New York on Friday but I won't get out until 6.30am tomorrow morning (fingers crossed).
I spent most of Friday at LaGuardia until they closed it at 4pm and have spent at least 4 hours on the phone trying to rearrange my travel. I found a useful feature on my Treo - you can have (at least) two calls at the same time a quickly switch between them - great if your stuck in automated queues.
Anyway - I've used the time well - I've pretty much walked the length of Manhattan (humming that song by Sting), saw the Statue of Liberty close up, got to the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building, walked through Central Park and spent a couple of hours at the AMNH (American Museum of Natural History). btw the AMNH is pretty awesome (certainly on par with the Natural History Museum in London).
I've just started to upload pictures here.
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Mar
14
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OK, maybe <3 is a bit much but I certainly appreciate New York whenever I visit. I'm pretty lucky, the handful of times I've visited, I've stayed in mid-town - generally walking distance (if you like walking) from anywhere you want to go to.
If I was 25 again - NY would probably be #1 in my top 3 list of places to live; followed by Barcelona and Sydney. What I most like about New York (aside from the atmosphere, the noise, the bustle) is the vertical scale - there are few cities (maybe none) that compare.
Update - I'm being stalked by Rudy Giuliani - he was hanging around outside the hotel (and blocking the foyer with his entourage) and he was at the restaurant as well - I would've "had a word" if his body guards hadn't been so intimidating.
