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No posts in a long while. I've been on a blogging hiatus for about 3 weeks (has it been that long?). Yikes.
I'd say I just came back from Australia, but that was 2 weeks ago. Wiz and I went down to beautiful Melbourne (Hey Intrepid folks!) for a week and a half to do a pitch for a new software project. Melbourne is really nice. I miss it a little even though I was only there for a week. It's warm - the food is great and the city has a really nice feel to it - something I've always felt that Toronto was lacking.
Anyone else know what I'm talking about? It's not that there's nothing to do in Toronto - but the city is all sprawled out. Outside of a couple spots on Queen, and strips along College street there's no really vibrant area of Toronto. Damn shame.
Anyway - Melbourne. What's there to say - we did a pitch - got drunk with the Aussie's a couple nights (especially on my birthday - although the Intrepid folks called it their Europe product launch). Too much sangria, wine, rum, bourbon and gin makes me want to smoke cigarettes. I think I woke up drunk the next morning.
The good news is that the trip as a whole went well - I think it's just up to the management folks to sort out licensing issues to finalize the deal - but either way us GAP folks are moving ahead anyway.
Books: Just finished reading The Man in the High Castle by Phillip Dick. Good reading material for the airplane. Richard is recommending that I get my hands on Fatherland . I am on an alternative history kick. :)
Nerd-core stuff: PEAK is my new toy right now. It's so utterly cool and yet it's alpha quality software - but it's pretty interesting to me right now. Don't go running off to use it for production code yet though - it's still at rev 0.5a3 so it's very far from usable from the public.
For those of you playing with Webware - if you haven't been tracking the mailing list - Ian Bicking has done a pretty big refactoring to rip out WebKit from Webware. Check it out.
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