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Off to Melbourne tonight for a couple of days - spending time with one of our business partners.

Okay, I’ve been very slack, I know.
But I do have an excuse - not a terribly good one, but it’s still an excuse.
Let me explain by describing what’s happened since I last blogged.
The day of my last post (Tuesday 19th) I travelled down to Melbourne to present at a seminar on the Wednesday for some [...]

Been really busy in the last couple of weeks - hence the lack of posts.
Travelled to Melbourne overnight the week before last to visit some business partners and to spend some time on a project our team is working on.
Two day trip to Melbourne last week to visit some more business partners, followed immediately [...]

Off to Melbourne this morning - spending the rest of this week there visiting business partners and working with my colleague Matt on a project for our team.
Not much else to report really.

I applied for a residency - writing a Redbook (technical document) on one of our products … it’s a great experience and you learn heaps too, and become a published author (your name is listed on the book, along with the other people who contributed when the book is publised). 5 weeks in Cambridge, [...]

I’m off to Adelaide today - seeing some business partners over the next couple of days and doing some customer presentations too.
I’ll also attend the Adelaide session of Lotus INsight on Tuesday - and catch up with some other partners while there.
Always nice to get back to Adelaide - give me a chance to catch [...]

Off to Melbourne this morning (I hate early starts !) - have a 2 day team meeting … everyone is flying in to Melbourne (about time too - I’m sick of these things being in Sydney !). Just an overnighter this trip.

I’m off travelling again - this time to the US for 5 weeks on a working holiday.
Have two conferences to attend for work - one in Las Vegas and the other in Orlando … will be holidaying before, during, and after these events. My wife is travelling with me and will be keeping herself amused [...]

One of the most useful tools we use at work is VMware - virtual machine software that allows us to run up multiple demonstration environments of different versions of software and swap them with our colleagues, business partners and customers - regardless of underlying operating system !
On the VMware website, they now have a description [...]

We had the entire A/NZ Lotus team together in Sydney today for a team meeting. We were forced to take an early lunch when the fire alarms went off (false alarm due to leaking ceiling on the top floor causing problems with the fire detection system there) … of course our meeting was on the [...]