It’s been an exhausting few days, intensive training and bilaterals until I could take no more and had to crawl to my room to try and wrestle some sleep. But the afternoon heat, humidity, nightly tropical storms and jet-lag have joined forces to reduced my sleep to about 5 hours each night. It’s been good [...]
Due to go uot for dinner in 30 minutes, so I’k taking advantage of a fairly fast connection here at the Cemara Hotel. It feels positively luxurious after the GG House. Tried to find some handicrafts place that’s supposed to be next to the McDonalds 500 metres down the road but couldn’t find it, asked [...]
Arrived at the GG House just before lunch. A beautiful place situated beside a river half way up a hill about two hours drive South of Jakarta. It seems to be used a lot by the Civil Society for residential seminars etc. Room is modest with a temperamental shower. The surroundings are fantastic, orchids growing [...]
After an uneventful, but exhausting flight I arrived in Jakarta a full hour ahead of schedule. The two hour stopover in Kuala Lumpur allows me to boast I’ve been to Malaysia. The picture is of an island we few over about half an hour out of Kuala, not sure what it can be.The airport was [...]
A shot taken from the plane as we arrive close to Malasia
Just got hold of the 2006 edition of Nielsen’s “Prioritizing Web Usability”. A quick look through tells me this book better have a good strong binding. If you’ve ever been on Nielsen’s site, the cover of his book is just as provocative in its refusal to concede to modern graphics, indeed to concede to graphics: [...]
I’ve just about got the logistics sorted out for the Indonesia trip, I even know where I’ll be staying: The training is residential in a place some two hours out of Jakarta called the GG House, not sure what the GG stands for but the place looks quite nice, and they even have a site. [...]