While I’m in the air over the Pacific, the Belgian Grand Prix will be taking place. I just “watched” the qualifying over at the BBC’s live text commentary, and like everyone else I was totally gobsmacked: Giancarlo Fisichella put his Force India Mercedes on the pole!!! And just to rub it in, Hamilton was 12th…
Read More Pinch me, I think I'm dreamingHaving travelled out here non-stop on Cathay Pacific (CX), I’ll be flying home tomorrow on ANA through Tokyo (NH912 HKG-NRT, NH008 NRT-SFO). I guess there are a lot of people flying between China and the US right now. (Of course booking at the last moment didn’t help.) I’ve never flown ANA before. NH912 is on…
Read More Another day, another airlineSome food porn… It’s my last night in Shenzhen; I fly home tomorrow. It’s been a very busy week, with meetings running late into the evening, and so meals have been snatched where and when the opportunity arose. (Pizza Hut, for example.) But tonight I decided to treat myself. Last time I was here, I…
Read More Food, glorious foodFaith… it’s not just for religion any more. I just bought some I’believe potato chips:
Read More Faith!Yesterday’s flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong was my first ever on Cathay Pacific, and I thought that I might post a few thoughts about it. After all, “CX” (Cathay Pacific’s IATA code) just got voted airline of the year, and where they lead others are likely to follow. I was sitting in 66A…
Read More Cathy Pacific to Hong KongI seem to be slipping into a mode where I spit out a handful of blog posts and then subside for a week or more. C’est la vie. Since last blogging, we’ve made great strides on getting the apartment up and running. We have TV, Internet, and VOIP telephony. (And on the TV, mirabile dictu,…
Read More Insanely busyJust installed Eclipse and the Android SDK on my Mac Mini, plugged in the G1 that I bought in China, and built and debugged a couple of really simple apps – first in the emulator, then on the phone. That felt good.
Read More Self-indulgenceIn Seattle we were stuck with Broadstripe for Internet/TV, and bandwidth was so-so. Here in Palo Alto we’re using Comcast, and I like the speed: Download Speed: 14366 kbps (1795.8 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 4406 kbps (550.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Read More BandwidthThis has been an incredible week. 10 days ago we shipped all of our belongings off to California. Since then: We’ve stayed in four different hotels (one in Seattle, three in California). The California shuffle was because of having to continually adjust our expectations about when our stuff would arrive from Seattle, and because many…
Read More What a weekIf you’re curious about what I’m up to, I just posted a piece over at my Cloud Computing blog.
Read More Building an IaaS team