Thursday, July 31st, 2008
My pictures from the Bugaboos are now online in my climbing web site's picture gallery. There's also a short write-up of the trip.
We got quite a lot done and I'm back just in time to go to Toronto next week for Agile 2008, which promises to be a blast. I'm ...
Tags: News & events, Travel
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
So I'm on vacation but the blog posts will keep on trundling along. This leaves the somewhat strange possibility that I died in a horrible auto wreck with a moose on the Trans-Canada Highway (not to be confused with the Trans-Canadian Water Slide). But to all intents I'm still alive ...
Tags: Travel, Trivia
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Waiting to get on a plane from Quebec City back to Seattle... The p&p Summit was great. I really enjoyed meeting everyone and finding out what they did and didn't like and wanted to see p&p do next. The biggest theme was (again) around complexity. This was somewhat summed up ...
Tags: News & events, p & p, Quebec, Travel
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
So the session track for the p&p summit in Quebec is pretty much finalized. I've just been signed up to give a talk on continuous integration (CI). This is one of my pet topics (in case you didn't know)...
Continuous Integration and Defense in Depth
Continuous integration (CI) is the practice of ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Tonight I went to Guy Awford's restaurant, Inside in Greenwich. I've known Guy a long time, since we were very, very young. So when I'm in the UK, which isn't often, I feel I should drop in and check out the latest menu. Guy's been making a go of Inside ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
I got a Nintendo DS Lite for my birthday last week. The best thing about this is that it'll effectively allow me to teleport to London this afternoon. Get on plane, start playing Zelda... skip the next 9 hours... stop playing Zelda, get off plane. It's the closest thing ...
Tags: Travel, Trivia
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Looks like I'll be speaking at the patterns & practices Summit in Quebec this May. This will be my second p&p summit and I've never been to Quebec so I'm pretty excited about it. What will I talk about? Well... now that's an interesting question, not quite sure yet but ...
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Instead of spending Thanksgiving in the wet and dank Pacific Northwest The Susan and I opted for Maui and some serious beach time. Being me I ended up taking a software book, one I've been meaning to read for a very long time. I can't say I finished it but ...
Tags: Agile, Books, Travel
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
What's the most disgusting looking thing you've ever eaten? I used to have to think about about this, there were several not very pleasant candidates. Not any more...
They say you're not really a local in the Pacific Northwest if you don't know what a geoduck (pronounced gooeyduck) is. Geoduck is a really ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
I've been lucky enough to do a lot of travelling over the past twenty years; roaming across six continents and climbing mountains on five. Mountaineering often took me to remote areas. The sort of places where the things I usually take for granted just don't exist; a warm bed, clean water, enough food ...
Tags: Microsoft, Travel
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