Tag Archives: travel

The Canaries make me weep

You might know that Akademy 2009 is going to be held in the Canary Islands in July. It’s going to be fantastic and fun and hot and warm and we’ll be absolutely spending time at the beach rather than listening to some technical mumbo jumbo.
But I have to say – it must be one of [...]

Surviving a week with Amarokers

I should have blogged much more from Akademy, but having hardware which insisted on frequently overheating made life a little difficult. I’m still in Belgium – in Bruges actually, blogging from my N810 courtesy of Nokia. More on that later.
I’ll start by saying that l think we had very productive week, getting lots of design [...]

France Recap

Haven’t had much internet connection lately thanks to a wonderful time in France. Here’s a short recap:
– Paris has more museums than you could poke a stick at, all of which are sensational (Louvre, d’Orsay, Rodin etc etc)
– Stayed in the beautiful Hotel de Ville suburb, and went out to the Sacre Cour [...]

Tremendous Taipei

I never really got to say much about sightseeing in Taiwan after the conference since everything got so busy. After our wonderful post-conference dinner in Danshui, we crashed back the hostel and woke up to a disappointingly drizzly morning. It was a silly idea considering the cloudy skies, but we headed straight to the Taipei [...]

Open Tech Summit Taiwan – Day 2

Didn’t get a chance to blog about day 2 of the OTST2008 meeting yesterday since everything has been so hectic. Day 2 was similar in order to Saturday, hearing lots of excellent talks about open hardware and software. I found the talks on Freifunk.net and Open Street Map particularly exciting and look forward to seeing [...]