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I love Kathmandu
10.28.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on I love Kathmandu

This city is awesome. While we’re waiting for our bags (they “might” arrive tommorrow) we took our guides and went on a tour today. We were supposed to take a car but we couldn’t because of a general strike (things are dicy politically here, we even walked into a demonstration today). They took us to Dunbar Square and a large stupa with a difficult name also known as the monkey temple (I forgot to bring my journal to the internetcafe). We had a great time. Because we had to walk so much, it gave us a great view of the daily life in Kathmandu. Everything happens on the street so there so much to see, do and smell, it’s an overload of experiences and we’re trying to take it all in as best as we can.

Sheri dinging the bells at a Hindi temple

Lunch with our guides

A typical vendor in Kathmandu

Dunbar Square

Political demonstration

Stoopa, also known as monkey temple

Sheri with two monks

A monkey on the monkey temple
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Arrived in Kathmandu
10.26.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Arrived in Kathmandu

We’ve made it! We arrived yesterday at 3:00pm, only a few hours after our original plan, so it turned out ok after all. Arjun, the operator of our trekking company picked us up from the airport. Him and his associates are all very nice people. We’ve met our guides today and they’re also very nice. It was weird driving from the airport to our Hotel. They drive on the left side of the road and traffic is crazy. Sheri saw her first monkey running across the street in front of the car. Kathmandu is beautifull, chaotic and a whole different world. We love it. We’re going shopping next because there’s no sign of our bags yet. That also means we have to wait to start our trek. That’s ok because we have plenty of time. But Virgin, who are working on it, told me this morning that they haven’t received any word from Air Canada yet. This is the last time I’ve used Air Canada I think.

Arjun, his guides and porters.

Morning in Kathmandu
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Happy in Delhi
10.25.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Happy in Delhi

So we’re in Delhi, India right now. We flew Virgin Atlantic and it was amazing. Service, food, entertainment, awesome. When we got here, there was somebody waiting for us to help us out becasue we don’t have a Visa for India. He took care of everything, including our bags. They’re still in London but he’s completely on the case. What a difference with Air Canada, they left us completely in the dark. And wait for the MealMe picture from the food on the plane. Unreal!
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Stuck in London
10.25.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Stuck in London

We’e now in London. Eight hours late. First our plane had a mechanical problem and then the second plane also neded repairs. after that, our crew had to be replaced. They gave us $15 for meat sanwiches. Now we’re on standby for a flight to Delhi and have a connection to Kathmndu. So who knows, we might go trekking in London instead of Nepal. The bright side off all this is that I get to use internet terminals all over the world. This one sucks. We feel pretty discusting but whatever, WE’RE ON VACATION!
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Stuck in Toronto
10.24.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Stuck in Toronto

Things are going very well. we’re delayed for 6 hours so we have now missed all our connecting flights. but they tell me we have nothing to worry about so…….whatever, I’m on vacation.
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On our way to Nepal
10.24.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on On our way to Nepal

We’ve started our journey to Nepal today. I’m typing this in the terminal of the Vancouver Airport. We’re off the Toronto first, then London, the Abu Dabi, then Kathmandu. Seems like a recipe for disaster. Our original itinerary got messed up when Air Canada changed some flights and our travel agent had to scramble to make it all work. Whatever, I’m on vacation.

Mauritio and Caterina, thank you so much for driving us to the airport.
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Introducing MealMe.com
09.18.05 | Permalink | Comment?

A few years ago I had a beer with my friends Eric and Eric. Eric told this story about a vacation to California where he only took pictures of his meals and how he wanted to start this website where he would post pictures of the food he ate. After a few beers it turned into an idea for a website where EVERYBODY can submit pictures of the food they’ve had in restaurants.

It took a while to get going but two years later, here’s MEALME.com! Idea and Project Managed by Eric, designed by (other) Eric and developed by yours truly. Browse through some of the meals we’ve consumed lately and start snapping pictures and submit them yourself.

I love to just start browsing meals by click on tag after tag. It’s a great time waster and you might get some ideas about where you might want to eat next.
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Traveling to London
10.29.04 | Permalink | Comment?

Tomorrow I’m flying to London where we’re going to conduct Usability tests. This will give me a chance to finally try the London SMS pubfinder.
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My new hero is called Jon Stewart
10.19.04 | Permalink | Comment?

It is sad that comedians have become the voice of reason. Jon Stewart on Crossfire.
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Did I see a different debate?
10.01.04 | Permalink | Comment?

I don’t live in the US, in live in Canada. But US politics has a huge impact on world affairs, just look at what’s happened over the last 4 years. So I’m directly impacted by the way 300 million (well, the 50% that vote) US citizens perceive things. So I took a keen interest in the presidential debate last night. It looked pretty obvious to me that Kerry knocked one out of the park. He addressed the “flip-flop” issue to a point where Bush literally had nothing to say anymore. But the US media saw things differently. Is that the new reality after the Dan Rather incident, am I skewed by my personal believes or is politics really a matter of repetition, true or false, the more you say it, the more people will start to believe it. Salon.com was the only source I’ve found that reported on the debate I saw.