Back From The Other Side Of The Globe: Part 1 (Introduction)
Thanks to readers for the emails asking if I had tuned out or given up writing at patrickWeb! No way! I still enjoy sharing points of view on various topics here in the blog. The reason for the lack of postings over the past few weeks is that I have been on holiday — reading […]
Back From The Other Side Of The Globe
The trip began with a flight from New York to Los Angeles and then on to Auckland, New Zealand. The eighteen hours of flight took us from 40° 45 minutes North latitude 73° 59 minutes West longitude (New York) to 36° 51 minutes South latitude 174° 46 minutes East longitude (Auckland, NZ) — nearly 9,000 […]
Vasa
The Vasa Museum houses the world’s only surviving 17th-century ship and is one of the foremost tourist sights in the world. It is one of those places that you have to see to believe. I put some pictures in the photo gallery, but as usual my photographic skills are weak. The mighty Swedish warship, the […]
Opera In Oslo
There are so many interesting things to see in Scandinavia that one could spend weeks or months exploring them. The main purpose of the trip was to spend a day with the Opera Software management team and board of directors. That was an extremely long day but hopefully productive for all participants. One thing is […]
Immigration – Does It Have To Mean Long Lines?
One thing the trips to Toronto and Brazil this week had in common was long lines to get through immigration. The U.S. State Department is about ready to roll out new passports which will have embedded digital photographs. There will be a scanner at the point of immigration which will take a digital picture of […]