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The flight from Minneapolis (where I had a one hour layover) to San Fransisco was full to the brim. I took my seat in 22E and watched in awe as the coach class inmate in the seat in front of me tried in vain to wedge a full-sized chello between the seat...

This a reply that I made to a mailing list discussion on  the Wikimania 2008 conference I attended recently. I do realize that not having the entire thread would take it out of context, but the archives to the relevant threads are here. While this is...

After exactly 25 hours and 14 minutes of travel (of which about 16 hours were in flight), I collapsed on my hotel bed in Anaheim, California. In the US of A for the first time. I am on a 10-day trip: 5 days in Anaheim, CA to attend a higher education...

As an opener, I am going to borrow Mike's statement on Saudi Arabia. Welcome to Saudi Arabia. Please Turn your watches back 500 years I think that's pretty right on. Make a note, however, that this is not a statement made to imply anything negative, it...

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First off, I am blogging this from a $25/day Internet connection, which is about what I pay for two months of DSL in Cairo, so savor every word. I am in Bahrain on the second stop of a multi-country recruitment tour in the Arabian Gulf area. I've...

Keeping a journal can be a great way to maintain a regular (or at least semi-regular) personal record of events, activities, actions, feelings, and whatever else kind of information you would like to have a form of simple chronological archive for....

If you know anything about me, or have read a few things of what general gibberish I post on tis blog, you probably know that one of the things that I love and do with significant regularity is travel. This is not a post about why I love traveling, or...

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