Archive for the 'mobblog' Category
This post is provided for your own safety and comfort
Posted by Michael on June 14th, 2008Really. Your safety is our number one concern. Therefore, may we ask you for your own safety and that of your fellow travelers to only take one drink at a time? And for your own comfort to clean up your mess after use? And while you’re at it, please fill out this self check-in form, [...]
Notes from the Pacific Northwest
Posted by Michael on June 11th, 2008A few things are surprising about the Pacific Northwest. First and foremost, there is an incredible local density of caffè, as in the variety of brown beverage produced in Italian espresso machines. This is striking, to the point that you will pass little shops on the wayside selling fishing permits, firewood and espresso. No joking.
Another [...]
Hanging out in the Northwest
Posted by Michael on June 10th, 2008After a few days of conferences in Portland, Oregon (Schrödinger User Symposium), we are now taking a week off to travel the Pacific Northwest.
Even though the weather hasn’t really been very cooperative, it is a ray of light in our busy schedules. Time to relax and look out on the ocean. Or to sit in [...]
S’pore Part II
Posted by Michael on December 7th, 2007I’m in Singapore. It’s monsoon season. It rains a bit. C. wanted to know how much. Here’s how much (Orchard Road).
The weather fortunately keeps changing quite dramatically during the day, and the picture below was taken on the same day on Raffles Place.
But back to Orchard Road, the top-class shopping district, a bit like Ginza [...]
S’pore
Posted by Michael on December 5th, 2007It certainly is true, working in science, and even more so, in academia, is not always very rewarding. While the suited business guys zip around in business class and get their incentive holidays and other perks, we usually sit day & night in front of our monitor glare (voluntarily!). But sometimes, the exceptional happens, and [...]
More from Valencia
Posted by Michael on June 8th, 2006Another beautiful morning in Valencia, and I am taking some time off to update this travelogue with some information from yesterday, and a picture that shows me walking on my way to present a talk on the Dengue docking project that I have been heading for nearly two years. I have no idea what happened [...]
Valencia by night
Posted by Michael on June 6th, 2006In my last post, I promised some more pictures from Valencia. In the meantime, I have found out that the network connection I am using here is a bit shaky, the access point comes and goes, seemingly at random. Let’s hope I can put these pictures up, though.
In the end, I wanted to venture out [...]
Paella Central
Posted by Michael on June 5th, 2006I have been invited to give a presentation at a workshop adjoined to the HealthGrid 2006 conference. Fortunately, it seems, the EU organizers of this conference really like moderate, mediterranean climates, so they decided to have the conference in Valencia, Spain.
Vancouver Part III – The Lost Days
Posted by Michael on September 5th, 2004I have been busy, enjoying Vancouver to the utmost, so I didn’t have that much time to blog. Let me make up with a concentrate of my experiences in Vancouver. First of all, I naturally was partially occupied by the conference, but I did have enough time to see quite a bit of Vancouver, which, [...]