At a particularly good party at SXSW, the rubbishly-named “Rackspace Cloud SXSW Lounge Party”, I managed to get some cool free henna* on my arm. Actually, first of all I got some rubbish henna on my inner left wrist and then queued up again to get some a much nicer pattern from the other henna [...]

I’m still in the post-SXSW comedown period (hence, the lack of blogging) but hopefully by getting anything written down I will spur myself in to activity again.
From 12-17th March, thousands of geeks descended upon Austin for inspirational panels, epic amounts of partying and much working through hangover pain. Although it didn’t seem to have the [...]

Here we are, travelling again! We’ve set off on our ROOOOAD TRIIIIP to Austin.
What follows here will be as many photos as I can upload on my measly data connection. It’s likely I’ll just update this later from the hotel.
Estimated trip time: 3.5hrs
Start time: 2.35pm
Gooooo!

Update: Disaster strikes! It turns out the road from Austin to [...]

On my first real day here, we decided to hunt down a Real D, 3 D, extra D with more D cinema to see Coraline 3D before it went out of cinemas.
Luckily this being the land of everything there is an IMAX just down the road with a 3D normal cinema screen too. $7 a ticket, [...]

I think Evey has accepted me as part of the family. Lau is at work, and I have this little bundle of joy sleeping next to me as I blog:

YOU’RE A KITTY!

The most useful advantage of first class is getting off the plane first. This is especially true when you have to go through with a Special Envelope that can only be opened by Authorised Immigration Officials.
I scooted off and was first in to the visitor’s queue. There was only about 20 people ahead of me [...]

Due to Lau and her handy dandy step-dad’s American Airlines connection, I was able to fly in the lap of luxury - First Class! I had to come in through JFK for ridiculous immigration reasons. JFK is the only port of entry left where it is possible (but not guaranteed) to get a work authorisation [...]

So, here it is… the promised blog. My plan is to make it to more than 3 posts this time. I know, this could be tricky but I’ll try my best. At least now I have a reason to blog, and the time to actually do it. Not that this is guaranteed to stop my [...]