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Submitted by root.
on 2005-01-10 05:42 PM.
It was horribly hot in Denpasar when I arrived, just as it had been in
Java, Malaysia, and Singapore. But I expected it to be comfortable in
Ubud, which is at a higher elevation. I arranged to stay in a really
nice home-stay place, where I stayed the previous time, around 7 years
ago. I was comfortable there without air conditioning on my previous
visit.
Submitted by root.
on 2005-01-10 05:40 PM.
I was invited to Australia so as to speak at the Builder conference,
which was canceled shortly before I got there (but they had already
bought my tickets). This did not mean the visit was wasted, since I
had arranged 9 other speeches. The Australian Senate had attached
some conditions to the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement, and it
looked like the US might reject the treaty as a result, which would
give Australia a second chance to escape. I arranged to give several
speeches about the danger of software patents.
Submitted by root.
on 2005-01-10 05:38 PM.
A week ago my plan was to give two speeches in Amsterdam on Wednesday
Sep 29, then go to Paris on Sep 30. But in Geneva I learned that
there was an e-Democracy conference in Paris on Sep 30 at which it
would be useful for me to speak. Francis Muguet was organizing my
participation, but it turned out on Tuesday that the only time I could
speak was the morning.
Submitted by root.
on 2005-01-10 05:36 PM.
Yesterday I visited Luxemburg for the first time. Now I have been in
all the countries of the European Union.
Submitted by root.
on 2005-01-10 05:34 PM.
I went to Norway to speak at a Java conference, and I was probably the
only person in the room who did not know the Java language. (I expect
to be in Java a month from now, and I've been studying Indonesian on
and off for a couple of years, but I have never learned to read Java.)
Submitted by root.
on 2005-01-10 05:31 PM.
This morning I arrived in Geneva for a meeting of consumer groups
on how to deal with the problems caused by WIPO(an organization whose
aim is to impose increased "intellectual property rights" on the
public).
Submitted by root.
on 2005-01-10 05:29 PM.
On my next-to-last day in La Paz, I went to see the ancient ruins of Tiwanaku, and Lake Titicaca. My hosts and I hired a taxi for the whole day--it was the only way to go. When we got to Tiwanaku, we took a little too long eating lunch, which forced us to hurry a bit visiting the ruins and the museum.
Submitted by root.
on 2005-01-05 03:17 PM.
I am now visiting La Paz, Bolivia. The city is on the edge of the altiplano, starting on the plain at 13000 feet and running down through a connected series of valleys. The result is amazing beauty. Traveling between neighborhoods often means seeing marvelous vistas. The snow-capped mountain Illimani can also be seen from much of the city.
