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Today's my last day in the office before vacation. I'm headed off to Australia tomorrow, and won't be back in the office until next year. (Itinerary: Sydney for a week, Melbourne for a week, then back to Sydney for the remaining time, with a quick day-trip to Canberra on Boxing Day.)

For those of you who are attending Macworld Expo, I'll see you there. I'm pretty sure that I'll be practically living in the MacBU booth (and our sooper-sekrit other location, to be revealed on Mac Mojo later), so stop by and say hi.

Hmmm, speaking of things to be posted to Mac Mojo, I've asked someone else to post something next week. I've got another Entourage/PowerPoint study coming up right after MWSF, and if you're in the Bay Area and want to participate in it, make sure that you're in our usability participant database. This is the sign-up page if you're not already in there or if you need to update your information (new address, new email address, started using a new app, etc). There's a full post coming next week, but you can beat the rush if you sign up now.

Have a great holiday. I'll see you all next year! :)

(For the non-Microsofties in the audience, OOF stands for Out Of Facilities. Why we don't say Office instead of Facilities is beyond me.)

Published Tuesday, December 05, 2006 6:12 PM by nadyne
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# re: OOF

Hope you have a wonderful trip.

Unfortunately you can't see all of Australia in one trip - I have lived hear for 30 years and still have things on my to-do/to-see list! That said, I would recommend that you have a quick trip up to the Barrier Reef. Tasmania is also a lovely place to visit to (quite different again). When in Sydney, have a tour of the Bridge and consider the walk over the top. When in Canberra, have a tour of Parliament House and the National Gallery.

I feel that the best guides are those from Lonely Planet

Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:50 PM by Troy Phillips

# re: OOF

This isn't my first trip.  I lived in Sydney and Canberra for a few months in 2000, and I've been down a couple of times since then.  So I've done most of the standard tourist stuff in Sydney and Canberra.  

My favourite in Canberra is the War Memorial.  The Australian perspective on the wars that they'e participated in is quite different than the American perspective on those same wars.  For example, WW2 in American education (at least in my experience) was almost all about Germany, with the exception of Pearl Harbor and the atomic bomb.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:11 PM by nadyne

# re: OOF

Well, we're definitely roaming away from the original topic, but I've got to disagree with Nadyne so far as American education and WWII goes.

Granted, the War in Europe gets a fair bit of attention; however, most courses I've been exposed to spend a lot more actual time on the War in the Pacific.  Several grind through the entire campaign island by island and epic sea battle by epic sea battle.  Whereas the War in Europe mentions submarines, Africa, Italy, D-Day, and that's about it.

So I guess it's just a question of which version you get. ;-)

That having been said, most US classes tend to be quite US centric.  So we see little about how England, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand spent the war years.  So Tobruk, for example, is definitely given short shrift (if it's even mentioned).

mikel

Wednesday, December 06, 2006 5:35 AM by Michael W. Wellman

# re: OOF

Hi Nadyne,If you have some time to catch up in Sydney it would be great to talk Macs and Usability. The coffee is my shout! cheers, oliver You can email me on oliverw@idealinterfaces.com.au

Friday, December 08, 2006 9:53 PM by oliverw
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