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{ Monthly Archives } August 2006

Bootees

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 […]

2006 08 29 Crafts
Family Comments (1)

Hawaii 2006

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 […]

2006 08 24 Travel Comments (0)

Liberty Deployments

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 […]

2006 08 17 Identity and Privacy Comments (0)

The Wall

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 […]

2006 08 13 General Comments (2)

A380 Size Implications

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 […]

2006 08 12 General
Travel Comments (4)

Airline Thoughts

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 […]

2006 08 11 General
Travel Comments (9)