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Hong Kong and China with Heather

The first time I went to Hong Kong was for work back in 1996. I flew business class on that occasion - as we all did when travelling for that company - I was ve...

Everything Open 2026 in Canberra

I had a fun time volunteering at Everything Open in Canberra last week. This conference is the spiritual successor to the famed Linux.Conf.AU - a.k.a. "LCA" - w...

Holding Hands for today's joinindaily theme "Walking"

Holding Hands for today's joinindaily theme "Walking". I wonder if these tourists in Warsaw were being sure to hold hands just so they didn't get separated in t...

Open and Closed

Open and Closed an old mine shaft entrance at Allihies on the Beara Peninsula is very much open to the weather, but I wouldn't recommend going past the warning ...

Copenhagen

Copenhagen for joinindaily with a three-wheeled cycle rickshaw driver resting before his next customer.

The Heartland Flyer

The Heartland Flyer for joinindailyspecifics theme "Passenger Trains!"

Bathroom of Casa Batlló

Bathroom of Casa Batlló for joinindaily theme of "Mirrors!"Antoni Gaudí used a sea theme throughout this Barcelona home, which naturally plays well in the bathr...

Crashed

Crashed! for joinindaily theme of "Sleeping" This one was thoroughly exhausted after only a few short hours crossing the Tasman Sea and completely crashed in th...

Haast River

Haast River for joinindaily. Today's theme is "Stacks" As we crossed the Haast Pass it started to rain, which is pretty normal for this part of the world, but i...

Frying Pan Lake

Frying Pan LakeThis is looking across the lake (it's around 50-60 °C), from the outflow.  It's a part of Waimungu Volcanic Valley, which is my personal favourit...

St

St. Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork City.The Cathedral was designed by the renowned Victorian architect William Burges. The construction of the Cathedral began in 1...

Leaving Port

Leaving PortThat's what I'll be doing this Sunday (this photo is from last Sunday) though I won't be on a cruise-liner, of course!  I'll be flying to Zurich on ...

5th time today I've been so expected to queue for more than ten minutes

5th time today I've been so expected to queue for more than ten minutes. Is the US turning into the UK?

It's weird wandering around Prague without guidance, since I lost my cellphone

It's weird wandering around Prague without guidance, since I lost my cellphone. The weather's not as nice as it was before CalConnect, but now there's water aro...

I'm making small sorties out into Prague with my camera...

I'm making small sorties out into Prague with my camera and then coming back to my hotel and fixing DAViCal bugs. I managed to fix two repeat rule bugs on the f...

Seaward Kaikouras

Seaward Kaikouras

This is a road trip

This is a road trip.

Big Brother Island

Big Brother Island. The ferry almost never goes past The Brothers so this is a fairly rare opportunity.

Vineyard

Vineyard.

Marlborough Sounds

Marlborough Sounds... almost home from DebConf11 now...

Mt Taranaki from the air on the last flight of my trip home

Mt Taranaki from the air on the last flight of my trip home

Something a little different

During my recent trip to Massachusetts for CalConnect XIX I passed back via New York, surfing a few nights on the couch at the Washington Cube Garden1. This was...