Tag: flying
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Flight or fight
Given that I was flying out of Chicago in December, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised that my flight back home to Houston was cancelled due to snow. What was a surprise was that the snow was in Houston, not Chicago. Apparently Houston had been hit by a freak cold snap, resulting in an inch or so of snow. This may not sound like a lot, but for a city that has no real need of snow plans, it is almost on par with a disaster. (Hurricanes we can cope with, but itty-bitty snowflakes? Whoa!) So schools were let… Read more
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The world may be flat, but it still takes too long to fly across it
Much as I dislike air travel (now that the ‘improved’ security measures have made it such a miserable, demeaning experience), the long intercontinental flights do have one advantage: I get to read for eight hours straight. On a recent trip back to Blightly, I finally finished reading Steven Thomas Friedmann’s The World Is Flat Release 2.0 (that’s “Second Edition” to the incognoscenti). This was recommended to me by a colleague, and although I usually eschew such advice or end up regretting not doing so, this one was actually a pretty good read. The book is basically a treatise on the globalization of everything –… Read more
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Another Week, Another Country
Hot on the heels of my trip to Manchester a couple of weeks ago, I spent last week in Guatemala, on another business trip. This time it was for a workshop on change management, with a bit of knowledge management thrown in for good measure (it’s difficult to do the former well, without having the latter in place). It’s the first time I’ve been to Guatemala, which means I can cross off another country on my map (and not for the reason one of my traveling colleagues does: to indicate getting to first base with a girl from that country!).… Read more
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Ain’t Technology Grand?
I know I’m a whore for modern technology, but this is just outstanding. I’m currently in Fairfax, VA (USA) on a business trip. I’m typing this on a wireless keyboard that is connected via BlueTooth to my HP iPAQ 4700, which in turn is wirelessly connected to the Internet courtesy of the Marriott Courtyard’s Wi-Fi Hotspot. This blog entry is stored on the Talking Forest server (located in Norway, I think), and automatically inserted into the contents of the TechnicalAuthoring.com website, which is hosted on an entirely different server (maybe somewhere in California), and delivered to you via whatever technology… Read more
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