The Life of Bryan

My opinions on life, work, travel, gadgets and other things that interest me

This is my kyte channel for mobile updates on the N95

This is my Ustream channel for when I have the webcam on

Saturday, September 29, 2007

At last its paid off !

for the past few months I have been staying in hilton hotels, I have just arrived in the hilton chicago for 4 nights, I have atlast managed to obtain diamond premier status, which is a whole new experience, my room upgrade now has 2 king size beds, 2 bathrooms, dressing room, an actual bar, not a mini bar, but an actual bar ! (they must be mad, although havent found the prices yet) dressing room and a reception area, all this is nice but totally wasted on me as I am on my own, if Emma was with me she would love it, and with the two bathrooms, whats the point in that ! so you can both number 2 at the same time ?.

Anyway the hotel is nice, which is good after the nightmare journey, its reminds me of the waldorf astoria in new york where Emma and I went for her 30th so have to have an explore, I am having a beer as its just after midnight on my body clock but 18:00 local time so need to stay awake....

I am going to abuse my free entry to the hilton exec lounge where all the booze and food is free, I hope its worth the wait to get to diamond level or I will be well pissed off :), I bet its full of business types, and I will want to make a sharp exit straight away !

Friday, September 28, 2007

Another Day, Another Hilton

Well, here I am in the new hilton at terminal 4 heathrow, and yet again more german on blogger due to the german DSL providor.

I am flying to Chicago tmrw, and really feel like poo, for two reasons leaving Emma with the kids for 8 days, will be so hard for her but also I have to flu, just been doing too much lately.

So you know when you get off the airplane after breathing in everyone elses germs, for once ! I will be the one doing the infecting ! might as well be ill now, as I always am after being on planes anyway.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

it's a good job I took german in my degree

I am sitting in the hilton newcastle, I have just looked like an idiot for 25 minutes standing in front of the full length mirror in my room for 25 minutes rehearsing my presentation for tomorrow, I am presenting at This Event on trusted computing, but thats another story, I am using the Hilton provided internet connection and because its a german service, obviously with german provided IP addresses, blogger try's to be helpful and has translated everything into German for me, with no option to put it back to English so I will post veroffentlichen and hope for the best !

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Keep fit while blogging

its important to keep yourself in shape while blogging, so take a look at this for some helpful hints and tips

google's search on names

I have been watching with interest how much data google holds on you and how valuable that information is, we have done some recent studies on disks at work see the articles

here


and here

one thing that was surprising is how easy it is to unfold someones life from their google search history, you can build an entire picture of who they are and what they do, and it is easy to identify someone, as people always, always search for their own name, and quite a lot of times !

so be warned, all this searching is leaving quite a digital footprint, so be careful what you search for !

OK I'm Back, this time for good !!

I had a crack at this blogging stuff a while back, well one post doesnt really count but since every one, even the wife is doing it now it makes sense for me to jump back on the bandwagon. Not sure how much I will physically be able to update the text blogg over the coming week or so as I am doing a lot of travelling but I have added a kyte channel that I intend to keep up to date from my Nokia N95, so you will be able to see in glorious video what I am up to in Chicago and Candada

Friday, February 17, 2006

I'm a Blogger

So at home today, nive easy day from work, my bloody blackberry has packed in again.. Time for my third one in less than a year, this time it really isnt my fault though. Looking forward to my hols in a few days, off to France with the family.. cant wait really need the break