Month: September 2013
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First Impressions
Comedians always joke about air travel, probably because it’s so easy. Two flights — a seven-hour red eye followed by a four-hour layover topped with the final eight hours sitting in a tin can — and we weren’t laughing much. But we survived. We arrived in Nairobi at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday local time. The…
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A Small Journey To Africa
Later this week, Jennifer and I are traveling to Nairobi Kenya for practically the rest of the month. There was an opportunity at work for me to help out with setting up a datacenter at IBM’s research lab just outside the city. After hearing about it, I went after it and was picked to go.…