Well, I've finally managed to start a blog. Despite being a Technology Evangelist (and therefore by definition at the leading edge) it's taken me quite a while to catch on to this. I will be most interested to see whether anyone reads this and comments on it, since I'm currently of the opinion that most blogs are write-only.

This week I've been working on new material for this years TechDays events, the Sun Technology roadshow that enables the Technology Evangelism group to travel the world and experience all the joy of many, many hours in airport lounges and economy class. The session I'm developing is Java and Games which means I get to go to work and play games (kind of, since I actually need to figure out how developers use the available technologies in this area). I'll post more on this next week as things start to fall into place.

I was in Brazil last week with some of my colleagues presenting the merits of Java to a number of financial institutions. This was a lot of fun as the developers we were presenting to were new to Java, coming from a mainframe background. It was nice to talk about the basics of Java for a change rather than the latest developments in EJBs or the specifics of generics :-). Brazil is also a great country to visit and the food there is just unbelievable. If you ever get there go for a Churascaria (hope I spelt that right). Truly carnavore heaven and vegetarian hell.

When I arrived in Brazil I realised that I've now been to six continents this year (only Antarctica is absent; there not being many developers there) and five continents in the last ten weeks. I've got to say I'm getting really tired of sleeping on planes and will be happy to spend a few weeks at home.