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Las Vegas Travel Diary: The Gun Store!

It’s still here after all these years – the ad for The Gun Store, which greets you at the baggage…

17 years ago

Las Vegas Travel Diary: Anything Can Be a Slot Machine Theme

Case in point: the Sex and the City slot machine in Mandalay Bay…

17 years ago

Back to Daylight Saving Time!

I’m in Las Vegas to catch Microsoft’s MIX10 conference, where a lot of big announcements are being made. The combination…

17 years ago

Squeezin’ at the Society of the Secret Pickle

Photo by Jennifer Brown. I did a fair bit of work massaging some presentations and software demos into shape last…

17 years ago

Swamped

If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t been posting as many articles to The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the…

17 years ago

Names I Have Been Referred By at the Gym

Names at the Old Gym (Mostly people in their 20s – 30s) From summer 2005 to the start of 2009,…

17 years ago

Farewell, Old Friend

Amos wasn’t my dog – he belonged to my friend Chandra – but I’ve spent many a fine evening hanging…

17 years ago

It’s a “Portal” Day Today

Today is all about virtual meetings; I’m spending most of it sitting at the home office with a headset microphone…

17 years ago

One Thing I Love About My Job

…is that sometimes, what with all the things that need to be done, all the learning that goes along with…

17 years ago

Montreal Bound

Photo by Tom Purves. I’m boarding a Porter flight bound for Montreal, where I’ll be attending CUSEC (Canadian University Software…

17 years ago