Having dealt with paypal and regular north american financial institutions far more often than I'd care to admit, my expectations of either one being able to successfully do their job with anything but the simplest of parameters are already rather low, and are most accurately represented on a quantum level. Paypal has a fairly consistent history of ( Read more... )

Now that everything else has more or less been taken care of, and everything else has been crated and shipped, it's time to tie up the remaining loose ends, spend one last night with friends and hop on a plane (or several, as is generally the case ( Read more... )

Another busy couple of weeks. Back from Berlin earlier in the week, it's changed considerably since the last time I was there in 1989, not surprisingly. On the other hand, I'm glad I missed this by a day or two. It's interesting to see almost everything having been torn down and modernized on the East, with very little legacy left standing ( ( Read more... )

Haven't posted in some time, though quite a lot has been going on. For anyone that hasn't been to the Rembrandt - Caravaggio exhibit in Amsterdam, it's certainly well worth the trip, even if baroque paintings aren't your thing. The majority of the exhibit was at the Van Gogh museum, with some additional Rembrandt's at the Rijksmuseum. Given the ( Read more... )

Well, the last week has been incredibly hectic, but worth every minute of it. Spent most of the week in Austin, where it's always good to visit friends, both old and new, too bad I don't make it out this way all that often. Flew to San Jose Friday morning for meetings with Renesas, then back to Dallas the next morning. I've been trying to do as ( Read more... )

Work has been insanely busy, a lot of things to do, and nowhere near enough time to get everything done. I've been working from home the last couple days just to minimize distractions and reduce interactions with people that decide they need to ask me something every 5 minutes. Got quite a lot done, but the winding down period is still going to be ( Read more... )

Wrapping up my Brussels trip now, spent Saturday at FOSDEM, and most of today touring the various museums and cathedrals. Unfortunately there wasn't enough time to make it out to the Basillica, so that'll be something to do next time. One nice surprise was visiting the Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, where they had both Dali's Le ( Read more... )

As is apparent to anyone not living under a rock, the conservatives won the federal election in Canada last week. This is significant in the fact that they haven't been in any power in the country for the last 12 years since the last of the PC's screwed things up, and based on the fact that they have a minority government, it doesn't seem like ( Read more... )