October 27th, 2009 by Kevin Withnall

I didn’t know that the smithsonian was so extensive. Its 19 separate museums and were/are great places to visit.
The first things I wanted to see were the Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Air and Space museum.  These were great to visit but I also discovered lots more to see. The Natural History Museum was great, [...]

October 27th, 2009 by Kevin Withnall

Astricon was very informative. From learning more about Amazon EC2, to chan_skype they cover lots of things. Not every session was what I wanted to know but they did get you thinking about how to do things. There were sessions on large organisations and government systems where queues are seperated from media gateways and from [...]

October 13th, 2009 by Kevin Withnall

The day started off quite well. While sitting in the airport, I was organised, with a combination of TripIt, Dropbox, Google Calendar Sync, Evernote I had all my documents ready at hand. This makes life much easier when filling in forms with passport numbers etc.
The US war on tourism was in full force and apart [...]