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My year in places, 2009

I had fun compiling this last year so I thought I would do it again now I am pretty sure I will not leave the country before it is 2010. This time it is in chronological order with duplicates removed, as far as I can remember anyway. I renamed it to places (rather than cities) mostly because of Greenland and Iceland, that deserve a mention, but in neither we stayed in a city long enough. Also added some annotations here and there.

Oslo, Norway; I celebrated new year abroad
Utrecht, the Netherlands; contrary to what some people believe, I actually do still live here
Zeist, the Netherlands
Tokyo, Japan; CSS WG, staying at Michael(tm)'s place was a lot of fun. Really want to go back to Tokyo. Hopefully in 2010.
Nikkō, Japan; hiking around a lake in the snow, very much awesome
Lisbon, Portugal
Coimbra, Portugal
Madrid, Spain
Maraña, Spain; I love this place
New York City, NY, United States
Washington, D.C., United States
Sophia Antipolis, France; CSS WG
Antibes, France; also went to Italy and Monaco with Alex
Copenhagen, Denmark; reboot11! Stayed at Mark's place, thanks!
Greenland (camping/boat)
Iceland (camping)
Port de Couze, France; jumped off a bridge
Linköping, Sweden; De Klomp for the win!
Stockholm, Sweden
Halmstad, Sweden; Opera's engineering seminar was held here. Went skinny dipping in the sea. Cold!
Yosemite National Park, CA, United States; saw some big trees and hiked for twenty-five miles the day after we arrived in SFO. A little crazy, but a lot of fun too!
San Francisco, CA, United States; Halloween!
Santa Clara, CA, United States; W3C meeting time, lots of fun meeting friends again, though quite exhausting too.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; this was an awesome visit, however short. Thanks a lot Patrick!
São Paulo, Brazil; crazy road trip the night after I gave my presentation…
Berlin, Germany
Vienna, Austria

30th December 2009

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I honestly don't understand how people can brag about this sort of thing given the environmental cost of traveling.

Do you really need to take all these trips?
Permalink · 2009-12-30 14:50:20 · Walter McGrain
I hate the guilt argument against travel. If the public feels pollution from traveling must be reduced then they should raise taxes on these things. Otherwise the responsible people suffer while the irresponsible benefit from lower prices due to reduced demand of flight tickets.
Permalink · 2009-12-30 15:34:40 · Ben Joffe
To compensate for travelling by plane, Anne doesn't print out the specs he's working on :-P
Permalink · 2009-12-30 22:46:40 · Edwin
Walter, no, not at all. But I like travelling! If I would quit my job at Opera I could probably sit at home forever, but that would make things very dull. For me anyway. Not sure if it helps my case, but I did buy off all CO2 usage (and then some) and electricity at home is supposedly green.
Permalink · 2009-12-31 09:34:27 · Anne

a, abbr, b, blockquote, br, cite, code, dd, dfn, dl, dt, em, i, li, ol, p, pre, q, samp, strong, sub, sup, ul, and var are allowed as elements. They take some of their usual attributes as well.

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My year in places, 2009

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