I recently spent a week in Japan and while there had the opportunity to visit the national gallery in Ueno park, in Tokyo. The visit was wonderful and I had the chance to see amazing 500-year-old pottery from all over Asia, including this Ming bowl. That, of course, was one of the younger pieces...
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This is my experience of Japan so far, in pictures and video: Note: you can click the little small/big box control to view full-screen. Also, click through to Flickr to see all picture titles and information.
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I’m in Osaka to speak at ACE 2009 on Google and intelligence in the modern age (I’ll upload some assets from the presentation sometime next week). But I had a free afternoon today, and here’s a few things I saw: Sonezaki Markeplace: Robo-concierge in the HAL building: Yodobashi Umeda (electronics store):
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Some pictures from my recent trip to Portland, OR … We were meeting a group of people at Intel, which has a fairly major presence in Portland. It was my third visit to an Intel office – head office in Santa Clara (Silicon Valley), Intel Shanghai offices, and now one of their Portland offices....
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I just bought the tickets and confirmed: I’m heading to Japan in October. So far, I know 3 things: I’m going to land in Tokyo I’m going to be in Osaka on the 24th and 25th speaking at ACE 2009 I’m going to fly out of Tokyo The question is: what else should I...
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It’s a beautiful night in Shanghai. Lashing rain from the regretful remnants of Typhoon Morakot has now left the region, cleaning the air and drenching the streets. A thin mist is still falling, invigorating evening walkers. And a low fog is blanketing the city, obscuring the tops of skyscrapers and deepening the mystery of...
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Here’s a small selection of photos that I took on my recent visit to London:
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I met such great people on my recent trip to Bucharest for eLiberatica 2009. There’s something about conferences and trips: you compress so much experience into so short a period of time that you feel like old friends with people you met just a few days before. Here’s a few that I want to...
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The best things in life happen by accident. Or, at least, partially by accident … to those who are open to opportunity and change. Last Sunday I was wandering around old Bucharest when I happened on the remains of Vlad Tepes’ old castle. It’s a fascinating place, and as I wandered around, checking it...
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