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MEDC World Tour : Flight 11 (San Francisco to Seattle) - The Flight Home!

Posted Monday, June 27, 2005 5:45 PM by jamespr
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 Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Flight 10 (Beijing to San Francisco)

Posted Monday, June 27, 2005 5:43 PM by jamespr
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 Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 21, Beijing (June 23rd) - MEDC China Day 1

Posted Monday, June 27, 2005 4:21 PM by jamespr
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 Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 20, Beijing (June 22nd) MEDC China Preparation

Posted Monday, June 27, 2005 4:03 PM by jamespr
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 Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Flight 9 (Hong Kong to Beijing)

Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:13 AM by jamespr
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/cumulative) Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Flight 8 (Melbourne to Hong Kong)

Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:07 AM by jamespr
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 Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 18, Melbourne (June 20th) MEDC Australia - Sleep Nearly Wrecks Keynote!

Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:49 AM by jamespr
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 Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 16 and 17, Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne (June 18th and 19th)

Posted Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:31 AM by jamespr
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, Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Flight 7 (Singapore to Melbourne)

Posted Sunday, June 19, 2005 2:17 AM by jamespr
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 Hours Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Flight 6 (Kuala Lumpur to Singapore)

Posted Sunday, June 19, 2005 2:15 AM by jamespr
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 / Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 15, Kuala Lumpur (June 17th) - Some Much Needed Relaxation

Posted Sunday, June 19, 2005 2:14 AM by jamespr
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 for Read More...
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Beta Visual Studio 2005 Project Upgrade Wizard : Upgrade eVC projects to Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2

Posted Saturday, June 18, 2005 5:14 PM by jamespr
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 Read More...
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Fun with 3rd Party iPod Sync Cables

Posted Saturday, June 18, 2005 4:59 PM by jamespr
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 Read More...
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A Fun New Game

Posted Saturday, June 18, 2005 3:25 PM by jamespr
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 Read More...
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Messaging and Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5.0

Posted Friday, June 17, 2005 9:45 PM by jamespr
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 Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 14, London (June 16th) - MEDC Malaysia!

Posted Friday, June 17, 2005 9:38 PM by jamespr
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 a Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 13, Kuala Lumpur (June 15th) - Getting Ready for MEDC Malaysia

Posted Friday, June 17, 2005 9:32 PM by jamespr
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 Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 11 + 12, London (June 13rd and 14th) - Journey to Malaysia

Posted Friday, June 17, 2005 3:01 AM by jamespr
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 Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Flight 5 (Singapore to Kuala Lumpur) - Change of Flight

Posted Friday, June 17, 2005 2:54 AM by jamespr
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 plan Read More...
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Outted By MrsMEDC! and some thoughts about media formats

Posted Friday, June 17, 2005 2:35 AM by jamespr
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 I'm Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Flight 4 (London to Singapore)

Posted Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:20 AM by jamespr
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/PMC Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 10 , London (June 12th)

Posted Monday, June 13, 2005 12:45 PM by jamespr
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, Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 9 , London (June 11th) - Record Shops and MP3 Players

Posted Monday, June 13, 2005 12:40 PM by jamespr
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 Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 8 Evening, London (June 10th)

Posted Monday, June 13, 2005 12:37 PM by jamespr
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 Read More...
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Share Your Embarassing Work Moments

Posted Monday, June 13, 2005 12:31 PM by jamespr
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!). Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 8, Reading (June 10th) - An Important Lesson Learned at MEDC UK

Posted Monday, June 13, 2005 12:27 PM by jamespr
Now, I usually like to consider myself a professional when it comes to presentations keynotes and the like. On Friday, I committed one of the cardinal sins that so often I have stopped others committing. Yes. I said something while my microphone was on Read More...
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See the MEDC World Tour through Robert's Eyes!

Posted Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:29 PM by jamespr
Robert has been keeping a photo blog of our journey : http://roundtheworld.textamerica.com/ Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 7, London (June 9th)

Posted Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:26 PM by jamespr
The Visa Saga Travelling round the world, you pick up all sorts of interesting stamps and marks in your passport. I just had to renew mine so I lost all the stamps I'd gathered over the last ten years BUT I now have a shiny new Chinese entry visa taking Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 6, London (June 8th)

Posted Wednesday, June 08, 2005 1:57 PM by jamespr
Now I REALLY feel like a tourist. I'm sat in Starbucks in Carnaby Street in London. I can see how this was a happening place to be back in the sixties. Now of course, it resembles most other shopping streets worldwide with large chain eateries (like the Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 5, London (June 7th) - Change of Plan!

Posted Tuesday, June 07, 2005 2:26 PM by jamespr
I had to get my passport renewed before this trip. Unfortunately, due to a processing and delivery snafu my new passport didn't arrive at my house until 2 days before I left. Unfortunately that meant I couldn't get a visa for the People's Republic of Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Flight 3 (Berlin to London)

Posted Tuesday, June 07, 2005 2:07 PM by jamespr
Tegel airport is with out doubt the most efficiently designed airport in the world. Checkin, security, passport control, the gate and your plane are all within about 100 metres of one another. Basically, each gate is its own mini-airport. It must be expensive Read More...
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MEDC World Tour, Day 4, Berlin (June 6th)

Posted Monday, June 06, 2005 11:00 PM by jamespr
The first event on the tour is now complete! Thanks to Prisca, Frank, Frank and Roberto for pulling together a great event. MEDC formed one track of the three track Technical Summit 2005 tour which is moving across Germany and Switzerland throughout june. Read More...
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MEDC World Tour, Day 3, Berlin (June 5th)

Posted Sunday, June 05, 2005 6:15 PM by jamespr
Today I spent most of the day practicing my demos for the UK event. I've been so busy back in Redmond I haven't had much time to run through them before I set off. It looks like I've got all the "bits" I need in terms of cables, devices, power supplies Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Day 2, Berlin (June 4th)

Posted Sunday, June 05, 2005 7:00 AM by jamespr
We arrived in Berlin yesterday evening and were met by an extraordinarily polite driver to take us to our hotel. He gave us a flavor of the history of Berlin, which of course is best known for "The Wall". As a born and bread West Berliner, he had some Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Flight 2 (London to Berlin)

Posted Saturday, June 04, 2005 8:12 PM by jamespr
We bumped into Sean Liming, Windows XP Embedded speaker extraordinaire in the terminal at London Heathrow. I've no idea how Sean spotted us sat in a sea of other passengers. Apparently he had been on the same flight from Seattle. That's a travelling party Read More...
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MEDC World Tour : Flight 1 (Seattle to London)

Posted Saturday, June 04, 2005 3:34 PM by jamespr
The journey begins. My cunning plan to keep all my flights within one airline alliance means that I'll be visiting London Heathrow a lot on the Europe leg of this tour. Plus of course, I'll be clocking up the airline miles. Who knows? One day I might Read More...
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The MEDC World Tour Begins

Posted Friday, June 03, 2005 11:00 AM by jamespr
So, the 25000 mile trip taking in 6 cities on three continents in under 25 days has begun. Frankly, I don't know what all the fuss about that Philleas Fogg chap was about ... it took him 80 days to do a complete circuit of the world and we're doing it Read More...
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