Le Photos...

The photos are up, see if you can spot the removed people and wires, and posts, and oh yea a whole freaking Crane!

good news, good news, bad news

Well back from France and I had a wonderful time. Got some good pictures.

My i-pad was waiting for me.

My bike was stolen while i was away, found the lock cut around the tree.

more later...

Last day

Well it is the last day here, we fly out tomorrow.

Yesterday was a busy day. Started the day with a half day trip to versie(sp?) And the in the after noon I had a bus tour of the city with a cruise on the river afterwards.

Ended at the tower, didn't go up as the lines looked to be a couple hours long.

Caught the metro rail back to the hotel

Going to rent a bike today

The three person 225kg elevator

The elevator in my hotel has three person elevator, and considering the number of stairs to get to the fifth floor...

I am glad, granted it was either me or my suit case in there it is nice to have a elevator :)

Today is the last day of the conference, tomorrow I have a tour to verislle (sp?) And then a bus tour and river ride ending at the eifel tower. Don't know what I will do on Saturday.
More to come from Paris!

I am in paris

Well I am here, didn't prepare very well. Ended up following two other guys from iceland that are going to the conf also.

Have now been on the rail and metro here in paris :)

More later

Pathfinding to paris

Well next Tuesday I fly to pairs for a conference and then have 2 days vacation. According to Google I am 1:32.14 walk to the Eiffel Tower and on the way I pass the Lover.

The conference I am going to is put on by AIGAMEDEV.com and is there annual conference on AI and game play.

All told next week should be a lot of fun, except the 4:00 am wake-up to get to the airport for a 7:40 am flight :(

The secrets of Time.

Came across this really neat video of how we perceive time and how it influences the kinda of person that we are and how we relate to others. At the End he also makes a interesting statement about education and video games. One of the things that he mentions is that most kids become adults they have played 10,000 hours of video games.

A TED video that is watched said that if you spend 10,000 doing anything you become a expert at doing this. Most kids also spend 10,000 hours in school by the time they become a adult, so you can say by the time a child is a adult they have a good education and are well educated in video games.

One of the points this professor makes is that kids have become rewired for interactive learning, you put them into a classroom where they have to sit there and listen to a teacher. They go 'that's boring' and one statistic is one child drops out of school every 9 seconds in the US.

So if we took traditional school teaching and reworked it so the same knowledge is presented in a interactive way, would students become eager to learn again.

In any case this is good food for thought, recommend that you watch it, he is a not bad white board artist also.