Everything is booked and confirmed, so I thought I'll let you know that I'm going to TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers in Barcelona (10-14 November), and I'm really looking forward to experience TechEd.

If you're going, please let me know - we can team up and drink a beer, have a pizza or what-ever :)

I'll be staying at the Catalonia Atenas Hotel which is located downtown Barcelona, so I might get to visit La Sagrada Familia once again.

Our airplane is 3 hours late!! - I'm sitting in San Diego National Airport which (as one of the few!) airports actually have free WiFi (nice! - making the wait time more acceptable!). The last few days in Los Angeles have been great fun. We met with our friends Joachim and Anette (check Joachims travel blog) which are traveling around the world for a whole year.

We all went to Universal Studios and the thrilling Magic Mountain, awesome. Hanne and I tried (almost) all the rides in the park, and "Superman" and "X" is truely fun. If you're visiting L.A. be sure to schedule a day for a trip to Magic Mountain :-)

Tuesday I'm attending a "Meet Microsoft" meeting in Århus where the topic is the upcomming technology called Silverlight - really exciting stuff.

We went to Hoover Dam the other day. It's truely an impressive structure. I've been there before (on my first visit to Vegas), but it was Hannes first visit and she took +100 pictures of the structure and even a small video (with our Powershot A80 digital camera) which I promised to put up on the blog - so here it is: HooverDam.wmv (2.15 mb)

We went to Zion National Park and Grand Canyon, North Rim yesterday .. and now I know why it's called the Grand Canyon!!  :-)

We've arrived at Las Vegas - the ultimate fun town .. and it sure is both fun and HOT!! - Today we reached 107F (41,6C) - Thank God for air conditioning, I say. Today we went to Hoover Dam and tomorrow we'll be shopping and going to see the JUBILEE show (the most popular show in Vegas at the moment!) .. we're of course going to the 10:30PM edition (the one with semi-nude girls :-) .. and best of all, we got the $88 tickets per person completely FREE.

Anyway .. the gallery at www.pizzasms.dk have been updated with photos, however Internet Access in Vegas is quite expensive ($11,95 for 24 hours in our hotel room), and we're staying on the 18th floor - so connecting to unsecure private networks is not an option! - When we get to San Francisco we will (hopefully) find a lot of unsecure WiFi's (as in San Diego) we can connect to! Until then .. have fun, and I hope the weather in Denmark is getting better...

Many things can be said about the Americans, but they do know how to put together a show! - We went to SeaWorld yesterday, mostly to see the Killer Whales and Dolphines. I figured it was a great way to try out the video functionality of my new K810 phone - Click here to download (9.03 mb) .. the intro scene for the awesome Killer Whale show called SHAMU ROCKS!!

The first pictures from our trip to Siggraph 2007 have been uploaded to the gallery. You can have a look at http://pizzasms.dk/ (I know, weird domain name! :-) - The gallery will be updated as we continue our journey throughout California, so be sure to check back.

After more than 28 hours of travelling, Hanne and I have set foot on San Diego ground :-) .. Today we've been walking around the city and taking a 2 hour trip around the harbour, looking at a lot of US Navy ships and of course the San Diego Convention Center - home of Siggraph 2007 - which begins (Exhibition) on tuesday. Below is a picture of the Convention Center we took from our cruise.

Only one week to SIGGRAPH - Once again I'm visiting the worlds largest convention about 3D computer graphics. This year the action takes place in San Diego. Furthermore I've also received my reservation ticket for the Softimage User Event tuesday evening at the Spreckels Theatre - it's going to be really awesome!

I hope to meet a lot of the "bad boys" from the danish 3D scene! - I'm staying at the Sofia Hotel which is located really close to the San Diego Convention Center - If you read this and you're in town, just drop a note at the frontdesk and we'll meet and drink a cold beer or two :-)

I'll try to find the time to update my blog with photos from the event, after all .. Computers with Internet access does not tend to be rare at SIGGRAPH.