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GPCE Post Mortem

Sorry about the lack of posts during the conference - too much was happening for me to slow down to write a thoughtful entry. What can I say? - it was a transformative (dare I say "life changing") experience. There was so much going on concurrently that sometimes it was...

Falling on hard times

After giving them all of my spare change these two friendly guys let me take a photo of them. The cat was lovely too. There are a lot of homeless people in Vancouver. I wondered why this was; I'd heard that the social security system was really rather good here....

I can't get no sleep

Why am I still awake? Three days in an I'm still suffering from jet lag and this is the night that's finally going to break me. It's now 1:50 in the morning. I need to get up at 8:00 to get to the conference by 8:30. I'm not sure I'll...

Photos of Vancouver

It was an overcast day. Vancouver...

Did he just say "what's a controlled substance?"

I wish Ralph Wiggum would say that one day. The U.S. Visa Waiver form was an absolute spin-out. Here's a link to seven questions that were asked on the reverse of the card. Visa Waiver Scheme...

Auckland to L.A.

It was a very short night. We were travelling with the spin of the Earth and so we passed through the night at an accelerated pace. I remembered something really interesting about air speed on this leg with the help of a fellow passenger, Howard. The speed of the wind...

Brisbane to Auckland

It's true that people are the most interesting things on the planet. This is always so; sometimes two people will meet an barely an exchange of ideas worth talking about will take place. But sometimes when you meet someone and you begin to talk to them it's like a floodgate...

Belated photos

Edinburgh IFL Excursion London...

How my talk went

Hey all. Just thought I'd tell you the score on how my talk went. Bloody well. In my first practice with Mark I stumbled over my words, forgot vitally important background knowledge and even had to go back and look at my source code to see how I'd actually done...

Photos are so much easier to post than real content

Yeah, what the title said. Stockholm Vienna Graz Anger (That's pronounced Unger for you unsophisticated plebs.)...

Report on Sunday 24 August 2003

We arrived in Uppsala at about 9:00am after a two hour flight from Frankfurt airport and a half hour bus trip. Mark said it was a relief that the German air stewards and stewardesses didn't have big grins permanently plastered on their faces like the Singapore Airlines crew. I...

Photos

Not much description to go along with these photos but here they are: Photos of my wanderings on Sunday through Upsalla Frankfurt Computer Scientists Many from #haskell irc channel....