Well I'm back from Beijing, where I was attending Intel Developer Forum. I had a couple of days to do some sightseeing and got some great photos:

(NB, if you want to get one of these Flickr image browsers for your…

So MediaConnect's Kickstart conference on the Sunshine Coast started today. I'd elected to take the 8.20am flight, which boarded at 7.50am.

So last night, I set my Blackberry to wake me at 5am, so I could have a reasonably comfortable breakfast,…

Apologies for the lack of posts lately. It's been a crazy time for me in the last month or so: I had to move house due to our landlord selling our existing one (which had been dragged on since December…

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Lately I've been discovering that rather than cleaning the house on the weekend and battling crowds in Woolworths, it is far more enjoyable to walk away from it all and stay in a five star hotel for the weekend.

I…

On the way home from San Francisco last night I witnessed a moment of warmth and generosity between two laptop-using passengers.

One sighed and closed his laptop, and the other turned around and asked, "HP?". The other guy responded, "HP!".…

Hello from downtown San Francisco, where I am for the Intel Developer Forum which is starting on Monday (US time… Tuesday Australian time).

Intel flew journos business class (the first time I've ever flown it internationally) and it really was an amazing…

Turns out I was wrong about Angus Kidman, self-professed "excessively well travelled journalist/junket whore".

He uses dialup most of the time when he is overseas if his hotel doesn't have in-room broadband.

I don't know whether that makes me more technologically advanced…

I'm extracting some true geek pleasure out of being on the internet while in a 747-400, 35,000 feet up en route from Heathrow to Singapore thanks to the Boeing Connexion wireless broadband system on the plane. And because I got…

Angus Kidman would be proud; I've been travelling Singapore, France and the UK for the last few weeks and been giving my 15" Apple PowerBook, Nikon D70 digital SLR camera and Sony Ericsson S700i mobile phone a workout.

I've made some interesting discoveries:

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Although I'm loving my trip and my time in the UK (they sell chocolate souffle in glass containers in the frozen desserts aisle for chrissake), I'm also quite eagerly looking forward to getting home and seeing Kate and having home comforts back…