Reporting from the luxuries of free Internet at our hostel in Taipei, Ian and I have been going over the talk that we’ll be giving on Amarok tomorrow at the Open Tech Summit here in Taiwan. The entire day today has been spent at the (very nice) Asus corporate headquarters – about 20 minutes on [...]
I’ve been getting up to a whole lot of everything and nothing at the same time, if that is even possible. Bali’s full on scene of Kuta was a little too much for me to handle (expensive prices, filthy beach and infuriating touts shouting ‘transport?’), so onto Lombok it was. Even the more relaxed locations [...]
I shouldn’t have been surprised when we arrived at Medan Airport in Sumatra to be told that our AirAsia flight had been cancelled. At 6am, nonetheless. By Murphy’s Law, it shouldn’t have been unexpected that it also meant we’d miss our connecting flight from Jakarta to Solo. So when it all came crashing down, it [...]
Danau Toba is a lake. A very big lake. Infact, I’m on an island (Samosir), in the lake (Danau Toba), on an island (Sumatra), in the ocean (Indian). Recursively, Samosir itself has an island on it.
I didn’t intend to write about Danau Toba after my spiel on Sumatra. I didn’t think there would be much [...]
We left the island of Penang, Malaysia on an epic 7 hour ferry ride across the Straights of Melaka for the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Before we had even left Malaysia, the sights, smells and atmosphere of the Indonesian way of life was thrown into our faces. No rules, no boundaries. Chain smokers, old men [...]
