Today MJ and I left for Philadelphia to prepare for our wedding on Sunday! We’ve spent months planning for it, I’m sure it’ll be awesome, I’m really excited. On Tuesday we’re flying to the Yucatan Peninsula to spend 7 days on a beach, and then another 5 days exploring Mayan ruins all over the peninsula. […]
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Wedding planning stuff and a PLUG meeting in Philly
January 11th, 2013 by pleia2
Last week MJ and I headed to Philadelphia to celebrate the new year, attend a PLUG meeting and go to several wedding-related appointments we had lined up. Some flurries awaited our arrival Saturday night and there was already snow on the ground due to past precipitation, but it was nothing too worrying. Fortunately the weather […]
Travel wraps up with a visit to Philly
November 12th, 2012 by pleia2
I left home on October 10th and went on a whirlwind tour that brought me to Accra, Copenhagen and finally Philadelphia – 3 continents! The weekend I went from Copenhagen to Philadelphia was an extremely long one. I left Copenhagen on a 6AM flight on Saturday, connecting with a 3 hour layover in Frankfurt (my […]
Been busy! Xubuntu, animals, trip to Philly…
September 4th, 2012 by pleia2
I have been exceptionally busy lately. I have a lot going on with work, some exciting but loosely scheduled plans for travel are upcoming in October, today I learned that I’ll be going to the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Copenhagen October 29th – Nov 1st, and we have personal things like wedding planning and some […]
Philadelphia Wedding Venue Trip
March 29th, 2012 by pleia2
Our trip to Philadelphia went by far too quickly. We had 6 wedding venue visits scheduled, ended up with 8 by the time we had finished collecting and reviewing recommendations from friends and family. I am really happy with what we ended up seeing, and upon browsing through a local weddings magazine we were given […]
Visit to Philadelphia
October 20th, 2011 by pleia2
I took a sleepless redeye on Friday the 7th to get into Philadelphia at 6:30AM on Saturday the 8th. I had quite the public transit adventure as I took a shuttle bus from the airport, since the airport line train was unavailable due to work being done. From there I took a train two stops […]
Ubuntu 11.10 in Philadelphia
October 14th, 2011 by pleia2
My fiancé is a network engineer who frequently has to travel for conferences, and this month I tagged along for a week to visit my old home of Philadelphia. I decided I would attend a meeting of the Philadelphia area Linux Users Group (PLUG) North chapter on Tuesday evening. When I noticed they didn’t have […]
Fosscon video now available
August 2nd, 2011 by pleia2
For Fosscon on July 23rd Gene Riordan, my co-worker over at LinuxForce, brought along his camera and took a somewhat impromptu video of my keynote! In spite of the city noise and fans you can actually hear me and it turned out ok. You can’t see my slides, but they’re available here and you can […]
Fosscon 2011
July 26th, 2011 by pleia2
Before the sun came up on Friday the 22nd MJ and I were at the San Francisco airport waiting for the 6:15AM flight that would put us on the ground in Philadelphia shortly after 2:30PM that afternoon. Upon landing we stepped off the plane and were greeted by a wall of heat. As soon as […]
Fosscon is approaching!
July 11th, 2011 by pleia2
Fosscon on July 23rd in downtown Philadelphia is quickly approaching! I mentioned back in May that I’d be flying out to Philly to do the keynote for Fosscon and now the speaker line-up also includes: Deb Nicholson – Community Organizing for Free Software Activists Mark Jason Dominus – Join my army of git zombies Walt […]