To celebrate a recent launch the team went out to an “adult arcade” called Dave and Busters today. An adult arcade is pretty much what it sounds like — imagine a huge collection of arcade games, pool tables, bar, and restaurant. I of course had the most American thing I could find, which was a…
Month: November 2006
MySQL User Camp 2006
I “sort of attended” the MySQL user’s camp on the weekend. More on that later. This blog post from the guy who wrote WordPress makes me think I should have made it to more of the sessions. Oh well.
Mi Pueblo
The phrase “Mi Pueblo” is remarkably over used, which made web surfing for this one hard. For some time, Catherine has been doing some of our food shopping at the little Spanish grocery store in Mountain View. For the first time I went along yesterday (she normally goes when I am at work). Imagine a…
Getting ready to leave Sydney
I haven’t written much about the couple of weeks I’ve spent in Sydney. Nothing really exciting happened, apart from a trip home to see the kids (the Southern Tablelands were greener than I expected), a visit to CLUG another to SLUG, and a lot of time spent eating at restaurants on King Street in Newtown….
Go see the stilty building
If I find myself in New York, New York I should try and see the stilty building of doom, a sky scraper which stands on nine story high stilts so that it could use a site occupied by a church. I can’t work out how to deep link to Flickr images, so click these instead!…