I was a few months pregnant when Tim asked when I was going to knit some bootees (aka booties) for the baby. I wondered why he hadn’t asked for the first child, he answered that he hadn’t known I could knit back then. Fair enough.
So I got some yarn in time for the trip to [...]
We had a family trip to Hawaii (the Big Island) in the last week where I could reasonably fly before I got too big. Mind you, I was still big and bulky and quite glad of being able to float along in the water. I took quite a few photos, but these two are the [...]
It’s good to see analysts writing sentences like “the Liberty specifications are resonating with major IT user organizations” (quoted in an InfoWorld article entitled E-government Group forms within Liberty Alliance). It shows that the Liberty specifications (and not just federation) are being implemented and deployed.
Which brings me to the main point of this posting — [...]
The Wall was put up 45 years ago today, an event that seemed to define the Cold War. I lived in Berlin for a few years, starting in 1988; to me the concept of a city belonging to West Germany being in the middle of East Germany surrounded by a system of walls purposefully designed [...]
I’ve been a bit concerned about the idea of flying in one of the Airbus A380 jets (assuming they ever actually deliver one to an airline I fly on, that is). I haven’t been concerned about the safety of the big plane, but rather the logistics and comfort. Although, with the latest terrorist scares, I’m [...]
In the aftermath of the latest round of air travel restrictions, it seems to me there will be quite a few ramifications for the travel industry, if these restrictions stay in place for any length of time. Here are some of the ones I see, in no particular order.
Full-service airlines will have a fighting chance [...]
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