Of course Murphy's Law had to come into play here. I'm 678 miles from home. The closest I've been in 3 weeks and - yup you guessed it - the incoming flight was badly delayed so my outgoing flight was delayed. I was tired and looking forward to getting...

Flight Game Plan : This is a LOOOONG flight. Get home ... just get home! Flight Number : UA888 Date : June 24th Class Travelled : Cattle In flight meal : Multiple. Rice and fish. Breakfast and another meal I think I slep through. Number of book pages...

I started Day 21 a little misty eyed - figuratively speaking. After all, MEDC China was the last MEDC event for 2005. At this stage, I'd been working on the events for nearly 9 months so they're very much a part of life and it seemed a little strange...

I had an interesting discussion with one of our leads from China when he was visiting Redmond a few months back. We were discussing cost of the event in China - which I felt was rather steep compared to other events we were holding AND of course I had...

Flight Game Plan : Stay awake as best I can otherwise i'll never sleep tonight. Flight Number : CX312 Date : June 21st Class Travelled : Cattle In flight meal : Declined. Figure I'll get something at the hotel! Number of book pages read (this flight...

Flight Game Plan : Do some, work, watch a movie, stay awake. Flight Number : CX134 Date : June 21st Class Travelled : Cattle In flight meal : Breakfast. Suspicious looking omletten and potatoes which ideclined to eat. Mopped up/croissant and packaged...

I'd been wondering how quickly I could get the keynote demos setup if I REALLY had to. I turns out, I can get washed, dressed, from my room to the keynote and set up the demos in 20 minutes. Now I think that's impressive. Let me explain. My sleep patterns...

Flying. Lots of flying. Well at least it seemed as much but only totalled 8 hours or so. We arrived in Melbourne a 5am on the 19th. I was disappointed that they didn't have the "fruit and vegetation" sniffer dogs in the customs hall this year. Last year...

Flight Game Plan : Try to get some sleep so when I arrive at 5am i don't feel too bad! Flight Number : QF0010 Date : June 18th Class Travelled : Cattle In flight meal : Declined Number of book pages read (this flight/cumulative) : 29 / 135 Movie/PMC...

Flight Game Plan : Read through the journey Flight Number : MM613 Date : June 18th Class Travelled : Cattle In flight meal : Declined Number of book pages read (this flight/cumulative) : 13 / 106 Movie/PMC Hours Watched (this flight/cumulative) : 0...

EDIT No-one pointed out the error in this post ... I claimed I was in London. Kuala Lumpur to London to Singapore to Australia. Now THAT would be a crazy trip. I half planned to do some sight seeing with Robert today but I didn't wake up until 2pm...

The Visual Studio team have made available an addin for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 that enables upgrading eVC4 projects to Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. The team are looking for your feedback so they can release a top notch upgrade feature when they RTM Visual...

I foolishly didn't bring the firewire adapter with me that allows me to connect the BIG firewire (6 pin?) to the LITTLE firewire (4 pin?) on my laptop. Since I'd bought a bunch of CDs in London, I decided at Heathrow that I wanted to transfer them to...

Next time your in a hotel try this. Install iTunes. Switch on the option to search for music libraries which I believe is on by default. Listen to other peoples music. You can do this without paying a penny since you're usually given an IP address to...

An old colleague of mine recently questioned the wisdom of putting device management tools into the Exchange administrators toolset ( http://blog.timcarmichael.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/8/929617.html ) which made me wonder, who SHOULD be managing mobile...

What a great event here in Malysia again. As I said yesterday, what an amazing event team and what a great group of engaged developers. Our day kicked off at about 7.30 with a taxi to the convention center. You should never underestimate traffic in...

Today was about preparation for MEDC Malaysia. I had some technical prep work to do on my keynote demos. One of the key things with getting keynote demos to work properly is a well known defined start state. For me it's all about reproducibility. I'd...

When you're doing an international trip that ends up being a complete circuit of the world and stops in at lots of countries in different time zones you eventually lose track of where you are and what time it is. What's going to end up happening is that...

When I got to singapore I found my planned flight on Japan Airlines had been cancelled. Fortunately, they were able to transfer me to Qatar Airways who had a flight to KL that was scheduled before my planned flight. Flight Game Plan : Too short to...

If you're following the comments in your blog you'll notice that my wife (posting under the guise of MrsMEDC) drew attention to my deliberately vague use of the term MP3 Player. As ever she keeps me honest ;-) Well, there's no hiding the fact that...

Flight Game Plan : No plan ... just see what happens! Flight Number : BA017 Date : June 13rd Class Travelled : Cattle In flight meal : Chicken with Noodles (no alternative available) Number of book pages read (this flight/cumulative) : 36 / 93 Movie...

My parents and brother - bless them - both hauled across country to meet me in London. They both had to travel a couple of hundred miles but since they were coming from the West and North respectively London was the same distance for both and of course...

Obviously it would be remiss not to meet up with family and friends while back in England. With only two days I had limited time so I arranged to meet some friends Saturday and spend time with family on Sunday before I flew out. I met up with a couple...

I should really wrap up Day 8. I took Scott, Robert and Sean back to London for the weekend so they could go site seeing and I could catch up with family and friends. Of course, I couldn't let them do this the easy way so we caught a rush hour British...

If you read my previous blog post you'll find out that I uttered a mouthful of expletives to a keynote audience by accident. What's the most embarassing thing you've ever done at work? (Please keep it clean!).