Post Travel Slump

Posted on Mon 07 December 2009 in geek • Tagged with android, emacs, gud, rockbox, travel

I got back from my Hungarian adventures at a slightly more reasonable time than Wednesday mornings departure. Never the less I find travel still zaps the energy out of me. On Friday night I managed to eat dinner before crawling upstairs and passing out.

Saturday has been ably documented elsewhere …


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Exploring Budapest

Posted on Thu 03 December 2009 in general • Tagged with budapest, tourist, travel

After finishing work around midday I took advantage of the rest of the day to go and do a little exploring around town. There is a handy tourist bus which does a 24 hour ticket and runs a continuous loop around the principle tourist points. Hopefully I'll get a second …


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That was quick

Posted on Wed 02 December 2009 in general • Tagged with hungary, tourist, travel, work

I've spent about 4 hours traveling today and about 3 hours in the clients offices. Everything went fairly smoothly and despite occasional language impeadence I've only gained an extra 3-4 feature requests, none of which should be too tricky to implement. I'll probably pop into our local partners office tomorrow …


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Weekend and Travels

Posted on Tue 01 December 2009 in geek, general • Tagged with debian, fedora, hungary, netbook, travel

The weekend was a relatively quite one. I took advantage of the temporary loan of my Dad's bike to pay a visit into town and tick of a number of tasks in preparation for Christmas. This included by first every cut-throat* trim of the Winter Beard to prevent it going …


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Niagra Falls

Posted on Wed 11 July 2007 in general • Tagged with travel

There is not much I can say about the Falls. They are as impressive as you would think but the area around is basically tourist trap hell. The parking was $18 (?9) and a good walk away from the Maid of the Mist <https://www.maidofthemist.com/>. However we did …


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