CivicActions

I've been away from home for 16 days. CivicActions' Full-team and Engineering Offsite Advances in Playa Del Carmen, México, started last Tuesday 8 July and finished last Monday 14 July. I arrived in Cancún 6 days early and did some backpacking around the South-East of México, El Petén Northern Guatemala, and Northern Belize.

Seattle, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York... And the airports of those cities are just some of the places I've worked from in the last two weeks. I get through security and my eyes shoot furtive glances at the bottom 2 feet of walls searching (sometimes in vain) for a power outlet, preferably one that is next to a seat. Recently I have started seeing Samsung "charging stations" in some airports. A brilliant idea who's time is long over due: multiple outlets on a bistro hight mini table.

As folks might know, I'm a bit of an eco-geek.  I've been talking about my carbon footprint for a few years now and can remember when it might cause someone's eyes to complete glaze over.  But then we learned about An Inconvenient Truth, a new island was discovered after part of Greenland's ice sheet melted, and Al Gore and the IPCC one the Nobel Prize.  We all know that th

Public Radio is reporting this morning that border agents on the US Canadian border are looking way back into people's past to find ways to deny them entry to one country or the other. Border agents are even using Google. One case mentioned in the story was of a Canadian Psychoanalyst who was denied entry after agents found an article he wrote in 2001 about his use of LSD in the 1960s.

I imagine the day is not far off when border agents use facebook or myspace!

I´ll be traveling for a bit, and I thought it may be interesting to explain how to work remotely without having to carry your laptop.

I just arrived in New Orleans at the Southern Comfort Bed and Breakfast. The owner Cindee gave me a lay of the land (both the house, and what's up in the city.) I think that we're going to have a really good time here in the Crescent City this week.