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View from the 30-somethingth floor
We arrived late on Monday and I’ve not yet had a chance to look around Bangkok properly, but I have to say that the JW Marriott is a lovely hotel and the city is extremely modern. We’ve been using the...
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Sights and colours of Bangkok
It has been a busy week so far. We’ve worked through the public holidays and weekend to get to the stage we are at, too. Yesterday we did finally take some time out for some R&R, and took the...
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Year Two
A quick line to record the fact that this blog has been around for two years as of yesterday. We’re all packed up and ready to travel back to the UK overnight. It’s a race to the finish to get things...
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A year of travel
We’ve been talking at home about our range of travels this year. Ola is the clear “winner”, and has travelled pretty widely – Cuba, Portugal x 2, France, Belgium x 2, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Poland x...
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Photos in online travel guides
I posted a couple of weeks ago about our range of travels in 2007. We also take a lot of photos as we go. Now, both Ola and I have had some photos chosen for inclusion in the latest editions of the...
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Bodu Hithi
For the past two weeks this blog, and all of my other social online presences, have gone quiet. If you were wondering why, it’s because we were here… … staying in a place like this… … enjoying views...
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A sojourn in Poland
Since Twitpic is refusing submissions from Tweetie or Twitpic at the moment… I’m falling back on the (new! improved! now with comment moderation!) WordPress app for the iPhone instead. I think it is 15...
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Making an IMPACT
Apparently there’s some Rational software conference in Orlando at the end of May. Of course, Lotusphere was out there at the beginning of the year too. Pah! Forget those! For me, the place to be is...
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There, and back again
Things have been quiet as I took nearly a month off(line) over the Christmas and New Year periods. It was well worth getting away from it all. Hong Kong was amazing and vibrant. Bali was beautiful,...
View ArticleEnterprise Convergence: CRIM Crystal Ball 2010
Today I had the privilege of joining a number of distinguished speakers on the slate at the CRIM Crystal Ball Conference, 2010, in Montreal, Quebec. My topic was what I chose to term Enterprise...
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Impact 2010 (and the cloud – no not that one!)
Despite the efforts of the volcanic cloud of doom, I’m currently teaching some of my peers from across north-east Europe (NE IOT in IBM parlance) at an education event in Germany. My specialist...
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Following my talk in Montreal a couple of weeks ago, my hosts from CRIM have been kind enough to provide me with the video and have also given me permission to share it online. They’ve also posted a...
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Boston view
Boston view Originally uploaded by andyp uk Arrived in Boston for SHARE 2010 where I’ll be speaking on Wednesday. Love the architecture.
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Beijing in pictures
Courtyard Originally uploaded by andyp uk I’m spending a couple of weeks on business in China. It’s an exciting trip as it is my first time in mainland China, I’m getting to do a lot of travelling...
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What I’ve been doing in 2022 (so far)
Preamble: my content It has been a while since I’ve written a general “what I’m working on” post, so I’m fixing that now. It has been a busy year — I last published a newsletter in March 2021, and I...
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Liverpool Makefest 2023
Last weekend, we visited Liverpool for a few days. I had an ulterior motive for the trip – my friend Caroline Keep and team were running the Makefest at the Central Library. [aside: does anyone know...
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MNT Pocket Reform: a (literal) field test
Using the Pocket Reform outdoors I am typing this while sitting in the Fountain Garden at Hampton Court Palace, as a test of being out with it. We are at the Hampton Court Food Festival today. It is a...
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Building a Better Social Web
Recently, I delivered a keynote speech at RubyWorld 2024 in Shimane, Japan. Andy Piper on stage at RubyWorld 2024 I was there on behalf of the Mastodon project – Mastodon being an example of Ruby and...
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Talks and travels – RightsCon Taipei
I’m currently in Taipei – my first visit to Taiwan. This week I’m attending RightsCon 2025, along with my friend Felix from the Mastodon core team. It is a critical time for digital human rights (and...
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