News and Views

After completing projects at Intel, we had to prepare a “post mortem”. It doesn’t mean that anything died, but rather is a summary of what we learned, what went right, what went wrong, and recommendations for future projects. Here’s my post mortem of our recently completed Baltic Cruise. You don’t have to gain weight on […]

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We arrived in Oslo, Norway early this morning after a little rougher than normal night. It’s probably because the ocean south of Oslo is not as protected as most of the Baltic is; there’s a straight shot to the North Atlantic for one stretch. Oslo has a concentrated downtown, like most cities, but the subarbs […]

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I’m sitting on a park bench in Gdansk, Poland right now, leeching someone’s wireless signal. This is a little out of order, and I’ll write later about Estonia. Gdansk is the main port city for Poland. The shipyard was huge. The cruise ship tied up next to the naval shipyard, where I saw lots of […]

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I had this post all prepared last night, but I couldn’t get connected on the ship. I shut down my laptop without thinking about it and lost it all. I’m now sitting in a coffee shop in Estonia that has free WiFi. This mini-PC has really come in handy! After I posted Monday night, we […]

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Today was our first day at St. Petersburg. We were concerned when the tour tickets we had bought hadn’t arrived last night. This morning I had to scurry around finding tour agents, and they finally made us duplicate tickets. Then about an hour later, the original tickets showed up at our room. I’m guessing the […]

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Today was lots of fun. We rode bikes around the city. It was about a 10 mile ride, and took about 3 hours, so it was a leisurely pace. Gisele was a little aprehensive, especially after the bad experience we had riding bikes in Peru (steep mountain path), but it turned out very well and […]

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I’d like to make a big entry, but internet is very expensive on the ship. We toured Stockholm today. All the usual comments — beautiful city, etc., etc. We also went out to a small, ancient village in the countryside. Today is the biggest holiday of the year in Sweden, the summer solstice. Everyone takes […]

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I arrive in Copenhagen about 1:30 this afternoon. As I entered baggage claim, Gisele ran up and gave me a hug — she had arrived from Paris only about a half-hour earlier. We took a taxi to the hotel, checked in, and went off on a walking tour of the city. It’s a beautiful city, […]

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I’m off in a couple of hours to meet Gisele in Copenhagen, where we board our cruise ship. I’ll try to post anything interesting or exciting. I hope to be checking email periodically, but don’t know for sure when I will be able.

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