Month: July 2001

July 28: Technology continues to challenge the church. Some unnamed ‘religious group’ has – according to the London Times – managed to translate the Lord’s Prayer into SMS – the abbreviated language for mobile phone text messages. Seeing as you’re limited to 160 letters and numbers in this format, some cutbacks had to be made. Here’s the ‘new version‘, which tends to lose something in the translation….

July 26: Sorry aboutt the delay in updating. I seem to have spent all my online time writing emails to the love of my life, instead of updating the page, so I’ll do that now.
Good news is; the trip was a success. The session I ran had a good number of people show up and show interest, which is what I’d hoped. The software I was talking about – Web CM is a good idea ahead of its time, so I’m glad to have been able to tell a few more people about it.
Also got some chances to visit Universal Studios, SeaWorld, and attend (from a distance) the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. That was great timing, eh what?
Got back to Australia to find Ainslie had left! No, don’t worry; I knew it was coming. :-) Ainslie was off to attend a conference in London before continuing her art history research in Rome and Florence.
It sounds like we’re such jetsetters, eh? Nah; it’s just that we managed to compress the whole thing into a single month. It’s not that exciting. Actually, I’m missing her a lot (snif), so I’m looking forward to posting an update on her return.
In the meantime, we’ve had school holidays in Perth, marred slightly by Allanah getting Chicken Pox for the last few days (and missing the first week of school). We’ve also had Nanna visiting on her way through to (and back from) Bali, so our little dance cards have been full!

July 7: Reporting live from Orlando, Florida:
After 40 hours in transit, I’ve finally arrived at CAWorld; a big conference for my company. Aparrently there’ll be a few thousand people here over the next week, but I’m just setting up some computers today.
Weather today is awful; hot and sticky… good thing I’m inside. I’ve never been to the U.S. before, so I still need to get used to a few things: a toilet is actually a ‘restroom’, a car park is actually a car ‘lot’, and people refuse to drive on the correct side of the road.
Over the next week, I’ll be telling people what I know about my pet product in CA: Web CM, as well as presenting a session to explain it in more detail. I saw the room today; you could fit a few hundred people in there, so I hope we can fill it :-)
Hopefully we can also fit in some of the sights: part of the conference is a visit to Universal Studios and Sea World.
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More news as it comes to hand.