Author: Bob Baddeley

Tuesday I had a very quick trip to the Seattle office. It did not start well. I was up late the night before getting my presentation ready and fighting code that refused to work. Then at 4 am I ignored my alarm clocks (both my alarm clock and my cell phone alarm). I woke at…

Last week I went on a whirlwind trip to the East Coast to update some software. To call it DC is a bit of a euphemism; really I was in Herndon, VA. I had explored Herndon before and was overwhelmingly unimpressed. Still, I was there to do a job, though from the beginning even that…

This weekend I tackled Mt. Aix. It’s not well known or well traveled, but it’s a great trail with a spectacular view. It started at 5:30 when I got out of bed and showered. I was on the highway heading for Chinook pass at 6:30, exactly on time. It was a pleasant drive up there,…

This weekend was simply amazing. Thursday night I got home from Albuquerque. Friday night I went to Kimo’s for a little salsa dancing, but there was nobody there, so I had one dance, said hi to the band (they know me by name now), and went back home to pack for Saturday. Saturday I was…

Last week I was in the fair city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was a quick business trip; integrating some of our software with some of Sandia National Laboratory’s software and testing to make sure it all worked before we deploy it in DC later this month. Unlike my DC trip a few weeks ago,…

Last week I was in DC for a project. This is the same project that had me almost go to Pakistan in March, that deals with Customs and Border Patrol, and that involves protecting the U.S. from inbound containers containing radioactive material. It’s a high profile project and one of the first I’ve been on…