22 February 2004
leaving the city by the bay…
Posted by Mick (SplaTT) Stanic under: Personal .
It was great to spend some time in San Francisco….had a few meetings, but managed to squeeze in some sightseeing time as well….
Wandered around SOMA (South of Market), which was home of the dot-com craze in those heady days of the net…
Spent a fair bit of time hanging around Union Square, China town, the embarcadero, Fishermans Wharf (only when i had too :)
Had a trip out to the Rock (Alcatraz) and manged to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge….a 13km (8 mile) hike to Sausalito…..
Also managed a quick look around Palo Alto after i had meeting down there….wish i had a bit more time to wander atround Silicon Valley….maybe next time…
Got tickets to see Matrix Revolutions in IMAX as well….nice…..
All in all, a lot of walking….my feet are killing me…..but i did get some amazing photos….
Bought my fair share of clothes (Gap and Banana Republic) and managed to pick up some great toys as well ;) Some Halo and Tron figurines from a shop in the Sony Metreon complex…A LinkSys WiFi enabled video camera…..and…..<huge grin> a Sony Aibo</huge grin>…i’ll blog about my “new toys” later…
The only down thing about the stay in SF, was that the hotel (Hotel Mosser) didn’t have broadband internet access..only modem and..get this…high speed interent available on your rooms TV…bit of false advertising….the site says internet dataport available in each room…by dataport they mean phone socket….you would think that in this day-and-age a hotel (especially in SF) would provide high speed net access for guests to plug into their laptops…anyway….
Now i’m sitting in the lounge at gate 24 at San Francisco airport waiting for my flight on Alaskan Airlines to Seattle…..which has been delayed by an hour…grrrr…..oh well, at least their is interenet access through T-Mobile, which has been my saviour because of their access in Starbucks…yeah i know…its expensive….but $39 for a months worth of net access isn’t to bad considering the spread of places that have T-Mobile access….you have to remember…this is the US, and Starbucks are everywhere….
Hopefully the plane won’t be delayed again, as i have someone picking me up and giving me a lift to the hotel from SeaTec airport….
I am really looking forward to my week at Microsoft, the guys i met at etech from MS, were a great buynch of people and really enthusiastic about this whole space….should be a fun and interesting week…
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