Patrick's Soapbox

About 4 hours in to the flight now, so dinner has been served, the first movie has played, the lights have been dimmed. Now is the time when they play a "movie" that you occasionally open your eyes to and...

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My time in the USA has come to an end, I write this while sitting in the lounge of gate G96, awaiting a boarding call (in about half an hour hopefully) to board flight NZ7 back to Auckland. It's kind...

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This has been a great holiday for me... I think back in High School was the last time two weeks off "work" had this much meaning. I'm beginning to understand more and more why people value their holiday so much....

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I went on a tour of Yosemite (included the Great Sequoias). Small group in a van, led by out tour guide Mark. Started at 6am (Early morning taxi), took multiple hours (past windfarms) to get everybody and get to the...

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Today I thought about going to China Town (by way of the cable car) but the lines were horrible. So I thought I'd give my feet a rest and came down to Metreon (which is kind of like a mall,...

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Right, so WWDC is now over. Wow. There are a couple of things that really prevented me from blogging during the week about what was going on. I'll throw the first one out there right now: the NDA. Not that...

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Well, I arrived. 13 Hours of flying, 3 hours of sitting around in air ports, and some how not sleeping at all. So I'm tired. I have however found my lodgings, an Apple store where I purchased cygnet (a PowerBook...

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I have booked flights and accommodation in San Francisco, so it seems that this poor student is going to WWDC. I've even paid for it all. I fly out of Auckland on the 5th June (at 7.20pm), and arrive in...

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Well, it seems the nice people at Apple have decided I am worthy of a free student e-ticket for WWDC 2005. I now need to book flights and find somewhere to stay. Given that I am currently in a state...

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