After all this plastic fake stuff in Vegas it’s nice to come to Britain, especially here to Winchester where you are surrounded by all this genuine authentic buildings and things. I love it! OK, I have to admit the round table is in fact a fake from the 14th century, BUT this fake is older than the discovery of America and this makes it authentic again, somehow. At least for people from the US it should be very genuine then…
I think authenticity is something we should strive for, not only for buildings and stuff we do, even for how we act and how we are. More wood – less plastic.

Some guys from work and me are attending to this years IBM Impact conference in Las Vegas. This will be my first time in Sin City and I’m quite excited about the trip. I’ll try to keep up blogging about both the interesting technical stuff from the conference and my personal impressions about the city.
(insider) I have already ordered some drivers gloves which I have to pick up at the local Bimmer dealer - so what could go wrong?
(/insider)
Finally I’m back from my excursion to the far north of Sweden. This time I went on a business trip to Kiruna for an educational assignment. Due to the somewhat crappy travel times up to Kiruna I had some spare time which could be used for some sightseeing. Now the pics are available at my Picasa web album.
Pictures from Kiruna/Lappland
Pictures from the LKAB mine at Kiruna
Enjoy!
…when you see this kind of signs:

Sorry for the poor quality, I took the picture today at Kiruna Airport with the phone.
Unfortunately there was no snow yet…