Museum of Musical Instruments
The name of the museum in Polish is Muzeum Instrumentów Muzycznych and contains actual and reproduction of musical instruments for many eras and countries. The museum is located in the…
Vistula Spit
The Vistula Spit is a narrow strip of land - as narrow as hundreds of meters - separating the Vistula Lagoon and the Gdańsk Bay, and has been on my…
Windows IRL #1
As a technologist, I'm always interested in learning about the underlying technologies. Once, I intently watched an airplane's entertainment system go through a Linux reboot. I recently added new use…
Museum of the Wielkopolska Uprising of 1918-1919
The name of the museum in Polish is Muzeum Powstania Wielkopolskiego and tells a Polish history using the uprising in Poznan after World War I as a major event in…
Random Learnings #14
European sports list the home team first while US sports list the home team last. I knew that football did that, but didn't know it extended to other sports as…
Transferring From CDG to ORY
I had the privilege of being accepted to give my talk Demonolithing the Monolith? Bullocks! at Devoxx Morocco this year. And the talk was given in front of a full…
Meandering Thoughts #12
Today I am in Poznań, Poland, my first visit to this former Communist nation. I saw a lot of young adults and teens as I walked around, and wondered if…
Random Learnings #13
John L. Stoddard was a lecturer who published ten volumes of his lectures, one of which I found at The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles. The volume I purchased were…
Traveling
I am speaking at Devoxx Morocco in October, the first time I'll travel to Africa. When I spoke at Devoxx UK earlier this spring, my wife came with, but she's…
Mother’s Day At Keukenhof
What comes to mind when you think of the Netherlands? Canals? Hans Brinker, the boy who saved the country by sticking his finger in the dike? Anne Frank? Famous painters…