June 9th, 2009, 5 Comments »
Today I flew to Toronto for a speaking gig. I had this awesomely spacious window seat in the exit row. I was looking out the window as we descended into a bank of what the pilot called ‘medium-low cloud’, and spotted this odd, multi-hued circle in the distance. I wondered if it was just a deformity in the window, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t:
It looks like a rainbow’s cousin (here’s another, very similar view). Does anybody know what it’s called?
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December 6th, 2008, 4 Comments »
As I mentioned, we’re off to Panama. Our flight leaves later this afternoon, and it’s a multi-stopover red-eye through the night to Panama City.
We’ll be there until late December. Then we head northward for a few days (and New Year’s) in Manhattan. We’ll be back in Victoria on or about January 3rd.
Posting will thus be light around here for the next month. We (joyfully) won’t have regular web access for at least the next two weeks. We’ll probably visit an Internet cafe or two, though. In the meantime, there’s a couple of other pages on the Intarweb for you to look at. For example, I just discovered Is It Funny Today–kind of a Digg for web comics.
Have a good December, and, you know, be nice to each other.
Photo by Keven Law.
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August 5th, 2007, 8 Comments »
Today I start my long journey from Gozo back to Vancouver. It looks like this:
- Take taxi to Mgarr Harbour.
- Catch the aforementioned Harbour Air sea plane to Valetta on the larger island of Malta.
- Stay over night in Valetta.
- Take a taxi to the airport.
- Fly Air Malta (a great airline, in our limited experience) to the 9th level of Hell, Heathrow Airport.
- Fly Air Canada (yay, elderly and grumpy staff) to Vancouver via Ottawa.
- Get picked up at airport.
- Collapse into bed.
It ain’t going to be pretty. I have the usual in-flight entertainment system–computer with movies and television (and an extra battery), iPod full of podcasts and several books and magazines. Plus, I like a stop midway through the trip, as opposed to flying from London to Calgary, and then the silly, short hop over the Rockies to Vancouver.
I’m coming to Vancouver and area to speak at Gnomedex (yep, that’s terrifying), attend BarCamp Vancouver, meet clients and potential clients and see the fam damily.
As such, blogging will be a bit light and unpredictable this week, as I’ve got a ton of meetings and must make my way down to Seattle. Bear with me, and service will return to normal as soon as possible.
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