Trip Report: EuroTour ‘07

December 17th, 2007

As noted earlier, Rebecca and I flew off to Europe last week for a little holiday, JavaPolis, and a week of JBoss.org team meetings.
With the winds behind us, we managed to make it to Schiphol airport in a record 6.5hrs from Newark. Not bad at all.
Met up with James Cobb, the kick-ass .org brand-manager/designer at [...]

Learn a new (spoken) language

January 20th, 2007

For a variety of reasons, I’ve come to the decision that I should learn how to speak Polish. I know a crapload of computer languages, of course: Perl, Java, Ruby, Bash, Tcl, Logo. But English is the only thing I can speak, even after 3 years of floudering in highschool French and a [...]