A letter to Adobe

Dear Adobe Systems Incorporated,

I have recently downloaded your media player. Unfortunately, all videos that I would like to watch are not "available" for my country, and yet you show me ad clips before informing me of that fact. Fuck you.

Sincerely yours,

Peter

Hong Kong

So I've been in HK since Wednesday - last night was pretty cool (although I was quite hungover today as a result). It's nice to have a group of people to hang out with in such a strange place. Went to Chinese place called Sweet Dynasty for dinner, then Aqua for drinks. I've heard several times that you can't beat this place for views over Hong Kong, and who am I to disagree - I certainly have not seen any better. Good cocktails, too.

And today they've issues a severity 1 typhoon warning, which is not really a bad thing in itself (it just means that there's a typhoon within 800 Km radius from HK), but apparently it's moving in this direction. I just hope that I can leave for Moscow on Saturday night...

Has it really been a year...

since I've written here last?

Well, that has got to be fixed. I've been bad with my Blogger / Flickr / twitter etc updates (and, ironically, I am registered with just about every social network there is), but I guess that's just what happens when you have a small child at home and a crapload of work. The last four months have been crazy with work and especially travel. So I had quite a lot to write about and lots of photos I took, but at the same time I just didn't get around to doing all this stuff.

So, let's see.

Random phone cam post

Morning jam



Some (maybe) good stuff here



Definitely some good stuff: cigars made right in the Cigar Box shop at terminal 1 of London Heathrow Airport



Infrastructure behind conference room AV technology in our London office



And here's the actual conference room



Random City snap

My del.icio.us tags as of 20.07.2007

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Shmap London guide

3 of my photos have been included into the latest edition of Schmap London Guide:

Bar at the Great Eastern Hotel


Greenwich Market stall


Cutty Sark


You can find many more Schmap Guides here.

Now THAT is belly-dancing

Sadie from Michigan (!)

Video from Natacha Atlas London gig...

... that we went to a couple of months ago.





Good times!

The Worst Jobs In Science

Popular Science Magazine's Worst Jobs In Science List 2007 (including whale feces researcher, forensic entomologist, Olympic drug tester and more!!).

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