Category Archives: Travel

digital nomad or ilife; it’s been around for a while now

There’s a post in the standard called living the iLife and picks up on people selling all thier worldly goods and living out of a laptop. But this isn’t new, it’s been around for a while (that post is from … Continue reading

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One Bag – Travelling light

My bag obsession continues a pace and I’ve picked up a Patagonia MLC. There’s a review of the MLC in action at Patagonia’s own blog, the cleanest lines here I’ve been using the two bags of late and have been … Continue reading

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Fox and Barrel

Yesterday we had lunch in the Fox and Barrel Cotebrook and it was very nice indeed. I had the steak which was excellent, all the food was great, the pub layout is excellent too. We’ll be back for sure…. The … Continue reading

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Flying woes continue

Just before Christmas I flew to Nice in the south of France for a day’s meeting, on the way down our plan was struck by lightening, a pretty interesting experience. I though that getting hit by lightening was a reasonably … Continue reading

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Google latitude blip – I’m not in Liberia.

I was sat in Frankfurt airport late on Friday evening when I fired up Google’s latitude to see where folks were. When I fired the app up, i tend to use the network location feature as opposed to GPS to … Continue reading

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London, Frankfurt and Geneva

The next 10 days or so are going to be pretty full on travelling, Tomorrow is down to Slough, then into London for a trip to a restaurant with the CFO of a major UK telco, then back home on … Continue reading

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59 trips to 17 cities

I had a nice email from Dopplr today, indicating that I’ve made 59 trips to 17 cities and emitted way too much CO2 in 2008. My last trip was one of the more eventful ones, plane out to Nice struck … Continue reading

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One Bag – Traveling light

My bag obsession continues a pace and I’ve picked up a Patagonia MLC. There’s a review of the MLC in action at Patagonia’s own blog, the cleanest lines here I’ve been using the two bags of late and have been … Continue reading

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Security Concerns for traveling employees.

I listened to some of Leo’s TWiT today, the show with Kevin Mitnick when he talked about his recent experiences at the US boarder. The points I’ll discuss below, become pretty serious in terms of crossing any board and especially … Continue reading

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Nokia Open Labs

I’ve just finished packing for tomorrows trip to Finland and Nokia’s Open Labs event. We’re all staying in the same Hotel in Helsinki, which looks very nice indeed. I’ve also finished packing my kit too, I’m taking my Asus Eeepc … Continue reading

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Finland for a 3 day Nokia Workshop.

Just like whatleydude, I too got the email from WOM World asking if I’d like to attend a brand new event for Nokia in Helsinki. Here’s some of the email WOM sent me giving me an idea of what this … Continue reading

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Another great holiday at Compton Pool

I can safely blog our vacation now as we’re booked back in for next year, yep almost a year in advance. The award winning Compton Pool was a spotless as ever and there’s a new reception building with a flat … Continue reading

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Nokia N800 is fantastic in the car

We’ve just come back from vacation down in Devon and this year we decide to up the distance we’d drive to a good beach to about an hour. As a result we’d start the day pretty early and head off … Continue reading

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Proporta bought me a drink!

My Proporta Mobile USB charger just turned up and in the package was an Earl Grey Tea Bag! The device is pretty neat too, it used mini usb to charge, so I can carry just one mini usb cable around … Continue reading

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Proporta USB Mobile Device Charger

  A Proporta Mobile Device Charger is now in the post on it’s way to me. I took Jonathan’s advice that it’s the best accessory ever. I did go and check out the Solar chargers but all the comments on … Continue reading

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