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Amsterdam’s Tolerant Laws and Public Safety

fluffy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:20:02 +0000

I have had the pleasure of coming to the Netherlands multiple times in the past few years and I have always had a really great time. Part of that fun has been the warm friendly people but it is also their social tolerant approach to legislation that allows people to make their own choices about what is safe for them. Lots of things are legal in the Netherlands that just aren’t legal where I live. I really liked this and decided to participate in one of the activities that’s not legal where I live to get a real feel about the safety implications and how I felt about them.

Note in all the following photos, no one is ever wearing any protection on their head. There is a huge demographic range and none of them use head protection.

There are men and women,

And ones where I’m not sure

Thin and Not so Thin

There are old people

There are young people

There black, white, other, and multicolor

But nobody seems to care about the usual drivel about not wearing headphones

Not to mention the use of mobile phones

Or perhaps a little texting while riding

Some idiot with a Canon 5D taking a photo of himself while riding. No doubt not a local.

PS – Corda, thanks for embarrassing me into finally updating my blog. I will try and post some family photos some time.

Boston

fluffy — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:08:01 +0000

LA

fluffy — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:20:37 +0000

So as a good IETF guy, how could one not love “The Standard”.

Voice Con – San Francisco

fluffy — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:13:00 +0000

Vancouver, Maple Bay, Portland

fluffy — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:12:44 +0000

Chicago – IETF

fluffy — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:20:47 +0000

VON Europe – Stockholm

fluffy — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:22:06 +0000

Interop – Las Vegas

fluffy — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:50:28 +0000

Prague – IETF

fluffy — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:21:50 +0000

Orlando – VoiceCon

fluffy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:13:47 +0000

VoIP in the sands of time? Tombstone? hard to tell but it was crumbling.

ETel – San Francisco

fluffy — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:34:26 +0000

Photos at http://www.dial911anddie.com/ETel2007/index.html

Vancouver

fluffy — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:52:27 +0000

Joshua Tree

fluffy — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:41:37 +0000

Photos at http://www.dial911anddie.com/josh/

Palm Springs – Consultant Conference

fluffy — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:40:15 +0000

San Francisco – RSA

fluffy — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:37:03 +0000

There was a lot of security stuff. Evidently, every vendor felt they had something I really needed but none of them seemed to be able to explain how this made it safer for me to read slashdot. Some people pointed out they could help stop me from downloading stuff from You Tube but that did not seem like a real feature for me.

Vancouver

fluffy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:35:58 +0000

Banff

fluffy — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:51:53 +0000

Calgary

fluffy — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 05:34:37 +0000

Portsmouth

fluffy — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:00:43 +0000

Washington DC

fluffy — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:00:00 +0000

Baltimore

fluffy — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:47:17 +0000

Monterey

fluffy — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:55:48 +0000

JDR working on a good solid ICE implementation

Seattle

fluffy — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:15:37 +0000

The CTO team brings their mobile IP phones to a meeting

San Diego – IETF

fluffy — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Match the Shoe …

Match the T shirt

Vancouver

fluffy — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:00:00 +0000

Phoenix – CIPTUG

fluffy — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:02:40 +0000

Really, there was an awesome sunset under big storm clouds – however the photos are just too lame to post and you know I have a low bar.

New York

fluffy — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:00:00 +0000

Boston – VON

fluffy — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:53:29 +0000

The booth at VON with the most Cisco Equipment in it

The booth in the farthest dingiest corner of the show

Fargo

fluffy — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 02:52:48 +0000

Calgary

fluffy — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:48:21 +0000

Vancouver / Maple Bay

fluffy — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:47:49 +0000

Flying out of Vancouver.

Maple Bay

fluffy — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:28:19 +0000

Vancouver & Drugs

fluffy — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:34:25 +0000

If you have not had Espresso at Caffe Artigiano, well I highly recommend it.

Montreal – IETF – Cookies

fluffy — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:38:23 +0000

Dallas

fluffy — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:41:29 +0000

Networkers – Las Vegas

fluffy — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:55:14 +0000

All the photos got lost – sorry.

Calgary – Networkers

fluffy — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:29:46 +0000

Nothing to see here – move along.

Stockholm – VON Europe

fluffy — Fri, 19 May 2006 15:14:11 +0000

Let me put in a rave review for Stockholm – it is great. I love the city, the food, the beer, and most definitely the people. More meetings in Stockholm please.

Boston

fluffy — Mon, 08 May 2006 00:31:27 +0000

I would not want to imply that the IESG was in an Ivory Tower, but we did have a nice meeting at Harvard.

Now, I’m used to have a computer support group however these guys have an emergency response team for library book support – now that is cool.

Honolulu

fluffy — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:09:09 +0000

Calgary – Cisco Showcase

fluffy — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:26:48 +0000

Still looking for that perfect Calgary photo but no luck.

I gave talk on VoIP, SIP, and Presence. Questions on top of people’s mind: What does this all mean for my Nortel stock.

NOMS – Vancouver

fluffy — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:00:00 +0000

http://www.noms2006.org/content/workshop.html#voip

Dallas – IETF 65

fluffy — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:40:57 +0000

The IETF turns 20 birthday cake

And the guys with the matching shirts …

LA – IAB Bad Traffic Workshop

fluffy — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:10:22 +0000

The view from Jon Postel’s old office.

An appropriate place to discuss dealing with Bad Traffic.

Orlando – VoiceCon

fluffy — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:20:27 +0000

Great party while Cisco melts into the pool….

While over at the SIP Forum booth, the lights are on but no one is home

Vancouver

fluffy — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 03:27:24 +0000

Palm Springs – FUD or Just Propaganda?

fluffy — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:19:56 +0000

Nice sign in the Palm Springs airport.

I’m confused on the exact point of this sign but I think it is supposed to help me feel good about my freedoms disappearing for no improvement in my actual security.

Monterey

fluffy — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:06:19 +0000

Seattle

fluffy — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:48:29 +0000

On Dan’s brother’s recommendation, I went to Espresso Vivace Roasteria. It was very good.

Unrelated photos …

Vegas

fluffy — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:46:06 +0000