Entries in Category: Vacation

Ignoring, for a moment, the conjunction of those two words with respect to cults and organisations (and some fraternities), I'd like to share some thoughts about branding and loyalty in airlines. As you, my dear readers, might recall, Aimee and I had gone to Los Angeles and Oklahoma for Thanksgiving (late November), and then to Jamaica for Christmas. Well, as it turned out, we had two starkly contrasting airline experiences. For the first trip, we booked all ...

So Aimee and I will be celebrating a white christmas. Beach sand can be white. And we're hoping it is. We're headed off to the tropics: the island of Jamaica. we're going to one of those all-inclusive deals that's like a cruise, except for the bit with the ship. There wll be a lot of swimming and diving and eating and sun and fun and water tricycling. I'll be offline for the entire duration, so I wish everyone a Happy ...

It's always nice to see people say some nice things about the company you work for. Mr. Halyer really wrote up something very nice about StreamBase and its capabilities, etc. Good stuff, indeed. Meanwhile, I'm hard at work on those articles I promised, though it'll likely be post Christmas that I'll be close. Especially since Aimee and I are headed south for more tropical climes for the holiday. Now, it's a little disappointing on one hand, by the ...

Obviously, Christian won the last battle. I do concede defeat. But I'm about to strike back. I guess our definitions of holiday differ slightly. I believe a holiday to be anything where you take a break from something. So you can take a holiday from work, and still hack Gentoo, or take a holiday from Gentoo and get your sanity back, etc. In your case I recommend both a time-out and a holiday from Gentoo at least. From ...

Well, Christian, I took the phrase "time-out to mean holiday. In other words, a time out from gentoo is a holiday away from it. Having said that, your time out has been about as effective as Alec's. You guys need to learn to get away from the keyboard. :p Especially with real life work becoming more intense for a while: it's one thing if Gentoo provides you some temporary relief and an escape; quite another if Gentoo ...

Look here, Christian, don't you dare think about leaving, ok? I think the extended break is a good idea, but you've yet to actually do it, you know :p. In fact, for someone on holiday, you've been extraordinarily active. So, do what you need to do, just don't leave. That is all. As for the bitchfests and flamefests, it actually seems to me as though things are improving in a small, almost imperceptible way. Let's see if that can ...