Archive for 2003
« Older Entries Newer Entries »
Bleh.
Work has been quite busy over the last few weeks, hence the lack of blog entries. I still have roughly jotted notes of the Germany-Bulgaria trip sitting around - I need to either find time to polish them up into something that is postable or decide to just skip them.
Tags: Germany, Jott, Uncategorized
Related posts
The Chaps [...]
OpenFest/Sofia III
The morning comes too early for Salle and Rumi. I feel much better - very
well in fact - and feel quite ready for the event.
We travel to the center of Sofia and into an area of attractive historical
buildings - churches, the parliament building, parks with weathered ruins
set in greened-over holes preserved from the bombing in [...]
(1 Comment »)
Sofia II
In the morning, Salle, Rumi and I went to meet Yovko and the other OpenFest
Sofia organizers, while the children went to visit their grandparents.
Salle drove us through streets now bustling with cars, trucks, buses and
trams. During the day, each traffic light seems to have a small ecosystem of
beggars and vendors who wander from car to [...]
Buttless Chaps Show
Where
Kensington Original Joe's
1220 Kensington Road N.W.
670-5737
When
9:00
Tags: Uncategorized
Related posts
No related posts.
Sofia I
Salle met me at the airport, his short salt and pepper beard made even more bristly by a broad grin.
He shouldered one of my bags and we walked out of the small airport into a cool and rainy night.
The evening was late. Roads wet with rain shone under yellow streetlight. A few cars were on [...]
Minor Train Mishaps
At the train station, I get a ticket that says:
"G
Tags: Uncategorized
Related posts
No related posts.
Leaving G
The sun lights overcast skies from above, casting faint fingers of pearl and gold onto the low mist wending its way through the half-harvested fields and lush meadows of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Rows of corn, dressed in the pale yellows and browns of late season, stand next to fields empty but for broken cornstalks and foraging pigeons. Beyond [...]
Catching Up
Phew. Lots of entries written about the last few weeks that I am starting to post. I will put them in order that they happened, but keep in mind that they may be out of synch with some of the previous entries.
Tags: Uncategorized
Related posts
No related posts.
No Pressure
My friend Sandro blogged:
"Now that I had a look at Zak's Weblog, I was surprised by his new and very inspired way of writing. He actually started to write down his impressions in a poetic way - and suddenly his Weblog gains more of a personal note and becomes more valuable to me. So what [...]
VLDB
After a few minor mishaps on the train, I arrived at VLDB (Very Large DataBases) in Berlin. It is being hosted in an old university that is on Unter den Linden strasse. I wandered around looking for the rest of the MySQL attendees and found that Ralf was the only person manning our modest table.
I [...]