If you follow any tech news or podcasts you’ve most likely read or heard about China’s national firewall that the government uses to block its citizens from accessing “objectionable” material on the internet. My wife and sister are experiencing the effects first-hand during their stay in China this week. My sister first discovered that she …
My wife and sister left yesterday for a 10-day trip to China. They’re currently about 6 hours into their 12 hour flight from Toronto to Beijing. If you’re interested in keeping up with them, you can follow my sister’s China blog (one dumpling at a time 😉 ).
Cleveland may still be waiting for that next sports championship, but at least some things are looking up. Today is the 40th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire that sparked (sorry, bad pun, I know) the “Mistake on the Lake” moniker that residents (including myself) had to endure for so long. Today, the Cuyahoga is …
The system upgrade was going well so the team decided to take today (Sunday) off and resume work on Monday (Memorial Day). That was a nice surprise because I got to spend the day with my wife and daughter in Manhattan. Since the ladies had already visited a lot of places in the city while …
Today I spent most of the day in the office here in Manhattan working on the fixed assets system upgrade. My wife and daughter came by (after flying into JFK that morning) to pick up the hotel key and then ran off to spend a day in the city. This evening, I met up with …
It’s never a good sign to come back to your hotel and find the lobby swarming with firemen. That’s what I found tonight when I got back to my hotel here in Manhattan: three ladder trucks and the chief’s vehicle parked outside on the street and at least 15 to 20 of FDNY‘s finest in …
Do they still call it that anymore? I’m sitting at Gate A12 at the Tampa airport waiting to board my flight to New York’s JFK airport. I’m heading up for there to do an upgrade to the fixed assets system that I am responsible for at work. As is the usual for this type of …
I can post these and laugh because Cleveland is my hometown. Unless you’re from there, you’re not allowed to snicker at these! 😀 Though humorous on the surface, they are a sad commentary on the current state of the city … the Flats used to be a really cool place. I have fond memories of …
On my way home via-275 South through Tampa yesterday afternoon traffic came to a sudden stop. Eventually I was able to see that a police officer was blocking the left two lanes that lead to the Howard Frankland bridge, one of the four bridges across the bay and the main portion of my commute home. …
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We got up really early (3:45am AZ time) this morning to head back to the Phoenix airport since my brother’s flight was departing at 6:10am. After seeing him off through security in Terminal 3, I took the shuttle over to Terminal 4 to check my bag for my own flight home. When it was finally …