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Archives for September 2003

Being Beijing

Saturday 20th September, 2003 Leave a Comment

I’m off to Beijing this time – via Hong Kong. Teaching the class that I attended the other week in Chicago. First time reteaching new material is always fun (and I don’t necessarily mean that literally) – we get to find all the quirks in the material and we usually go in not being 100% … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Travel

Nothing to say

Thursday 18th September, 2003 1 Comment

You may have noticed that most of my posts of late have been about travel or work (or both !). Unfortunately I am currently paying for haveing the first six months of this year without much in the way of travel for work. Now I have to catch up on it all ! Last week’s … [Read More »]

Filed Under: General

Hyatt Regency, Chicago

Monday 15th September, 2003 Leave a Comment

This trip to Chicago I stayed at the Hyatt Regency – a choice made basically by checking hotels that were reasonably close to IBM and which had broadband access in their rooms (it seems that most of them do now in that part of Chicago). Also, being a Hyatt Gold Passport member helped the decision … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Travel

Hello from 30,000 feet

Monday 15th September, 2003 1 Comment

I sent a couple of emails while on the flight home from LA to Sydney ! If I had my email interface to my blog set up, I would have written a blog entry directly ! The email system is actually provisioned by the new SMS facility on Qantas international flights (business and first class … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Travel

Observation Decks

Tuesday 9th September, 2003 Leave a Comment

So far, I’ve found the following information about the world’s highest publically accessible observation decks… 1. CN Tower Sky Pod, Toronto, Canada – 447m 2. Sears Tower Sky Deck, Chicago, USA – 412.4m, (level 103 of 110) 3. John Hancock Observatory, Chicago, USA – 313.9m (level 94 of 100) There may be others higher than … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Travel

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