July 2nd, 2010 
Steve Public service announcement: here is your very brief general information to get things started. St. Petersburg is situated on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Finland, some 400 miles from Moscow. Considered the most European of all the cities of Russia. City population is around 5 million and is the largest sea port in the [...]
July 1st, 2010 Steve Another quick city and country overview, or many a small history lesson (your call). Helsinki is the Capital of Finland, situated on the southern coast, overlooking the Gulf of Finland and Baltic Sea. Helsinki is predominantly a modern city with a population of 500K inhabitants. Surrounded by water on three sides, Helsinki has a natural seaport, [...]
June 30th, 2010 Steve Stop number two was Stockholm, Sweden. Time for, once again, some limited history for Stockholm. Stockholm is the capital of Sweden, situated on the country’s east coast and is the Baltic Sea’s largest port. Population is about 1.65 million inhabitants that occupy about 14 islands that are connected by 50 bridges. The city has often [...]
June 29th, 2010 Steve Image by Luhai Wongvia Flickr The first stop on our 12 day cruise is in Copenhagen, Denmark. Let’s start with a brief Copenhagen history or such. Copenhagen is the capital city of Denmark. The entire country is about the half the size of Maine. Copenhagen means “Merchant City” and is to believe to be founded [...]
June 28th, 2010 Steve With Day 3 being extremely long, having the first day at sea is just what the doctor would order, rest and relaxation. It was a lazy day. On this trip, we were blessed with 4 at sea days. Many would argue that four days is too much. For me, I wanted to get to rest [...]
June 27th, 2010 Steve Another day and another opportunity for me to apply some key lessons. As we had difficulty moving about on the tube on day 1, I was not going to make that mistake again, off to Liverpool Station in a taxi. There is always just another adventure just around the corner and today was no exception. Liverpool [...]
June 16th, 2010 Steve Landing a little after 7am local time and not sleeping on the flight, definitely had me feeling the effects. Made it through customs, picked up the bags and got our tickets on the train to London – with no hassles. Everything going smooth. As like in every instance of feeling everything is going well, [...]
May 14th, 2010 Steve How often do you just walk around the corporate office and observe folks? Spend time in the lunch room or cafe and observe? Attend a big face to face meeting and observe? Since I enjoy being a people watcher, I try to do spend time observing in most environments. Over the past couple of weeks, I [...]
May 5th, 2010 Steve Every have one of the benefits that make you want to shout to the world? Well, I am about to take one of those benefits that my employer offers for the fourth time, a sabbatical. What is a sabbatical you ask? It is 8 weeks off every 7 years of employment. That is 8 weeks [...]
April 30th, 2010 Steve Today, someone reminded me that I am under 10 days till I celebrate 28 years working for Intel. This made me stop to ponder what was then and now… I thought I would write about a few items of then and now (with some personal thoughts along the way). In 1982 Intel stock was close [...]
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