Tag: Business Travel
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A not so little Little Rock, Arkansas
Sequester madness is abating a little bit. There will be no furloughs in my agency, at least through the end of the fiscal year. I am not sure exactly how we are really saving any money. At least here within the water community, a lot of it is probably coming from funding fewer stream gauges.…
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High, flying and bored (and a bit whiny)
Did you see the movie Up in the Air? I did. In fact, I reviewed it. It made the life of an extreme business traveler interesting, so interesting that George Clooney’s character loved life on the road and at 35,000 feet and dreaded coming home to Oklahoma and his apartment. In truth there is nothing…
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The Pluses and Minuses of Business Travel
I can already see that one of the aspects of my new job that will become something of a grind after a while is the traveling. One thing we do at the U.S. Geological Survey a lot is travel. Sometimes it seems like I work with a bunch of constantly migrating gypsies who only occasionally…
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Back from Orlando
Back from a MySQL User Conference in Orlando, Florida. It was a good conference and perhaps a lead for a future topic on how open source software is going to either kill or fundamentally change Microsoft at some point. While I was there I took a couple hours to see my sister Lee Ann (along…
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