Posted in All Tech, Canada, Photography, Tech Events on Dec 11th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m back in Canada. I’ve gone from 28 degrees and kitesurfing to -2 and this:
…Kitesurfing, anyone?
In addition to snow, life here already involves code and consulting. So, after being quite involved with the developer community in Ireland, I’m looking forward to attending my first Canadian .NET Usergroup meeting tomorrow night.
I’m in the middle [...]
Posted in Personal, Photography, Travel, Where on Nov 19th, 2007 No Comments »
They say the hard part is controlling the kite. Focus on the kite, they said, and the board will follow.
But I have wind experience (windsurfing, sailing), and not board experience (skateboarding, snowboarding), and so for me, the hard part came when I tried to get up on the board in the water.
My instructor, Gerardo [...]
Posted in Moose (Random), Photography, Travel, Where on Nov 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
I was wearing my I-Kuh-Fish t-shirt as I boarded the ferry from Caye Caulker to neighbouring San Pedro on Ambergris Caye. The captain of the ferry asked me where I’d found my shirt. He was surprised to hear it was from Dahab, in Egypt, where the shirt’s classy, timeless design is available at every tourist [...]
Posted in Personal, Photography, Scuba, Travel, Where on Nov 8th, 2007 No Comments »
The Blue Hole was, without a doubt, my single most memorable scuba dive to date.
Thankfully, one of our fellow divers, Australian Rohan Ashton (facebook / email: rohanashton(at)yahoo.com.au) was shooting photo and video footage during the dive. I am very grateful for his permission to post some of his footage here, because otherwise, I wouldn’t expect [...]
Posted in Personal, Photography, Travel, Where on Nov 1st, 2007 3 Comments »
Long before they served as the Rebel moon base at Yavin IV, the skyscrapers of Tikal were part of an important Mayan urban area that sprawled over 100 square kilometers. The Temples that remain today, which date from as early as 600 BC, poke through the jungle in the lowlands of El Peten, about an hour’s [...]
Posted in Personal, Photography, Travel, Where on Oct 29th, 2007 4 Comments »
Arriving at Lake Atitlan from Guatemala City was an adventure in itself. I was the only foreigner on one of the jam-packed “chicken busses” owned by Rebuli, a company that ploughs the route between the capital city and lake town Panajachel with repurposed American school busses. The trip made for a great introduction to the [...]
Posted in All Tech, Canada, Ireland, Microsoft, Personal on Oct 22nd, 2007 6 Comments »
I have long suspected that the Irish are mad, and now I have proof.
At some point during the National Productivity Centre crunch time, I received a mail from Irene Dehaene, informing me that I’d been nominated for the Best Blogger award at the IIA and Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary awards next month.
I was overwhelmed, and [...]
Posted in All Tech, Ireland, Microsoft, Tech Events, WPF, Where, Windows Live on Oct 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
You’d be forgiven for being surprised to find out that I haven’t yet begun my travels to Spanish-speaking parts of the world, and haven’t even dipped my toe in the water for more scuba.
Instead, I’ve been working as an independent consultant for the past few weeks, helping to complete the development of the first application [...]
Posted in All Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Microsoft, Personal, XNA on Sep 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Congratulations to Sci ‘11 for their one-hour, 47-minute conquering of this year’s greasepole!
Can we all just take a moment to reflect on the academic year called “Sci ‘11″? Man, I feel old all of a sudden.
Just for giggles, here’s the current list of achievements for Legend of the Greasepole. I wonder how the crowd around [...]
Posted in All Tech, Canada, Gaming and XBox, Microsoft, Personal, Photography, XNA on Sep 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Just 2 days before her surname will no longer be correct in the credits of the game, here’s my sister Elizabeth, who designed the Frosh character, playing Legend of the Greasepole on the XBox360!
