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San Jose

I am now in the US, where I shall be staying for two months while marketing Determinance and, er, having some kind of a good time as well.

I’m staying with my very good friends Bob and Bryan here, and San Jose is my favourite place in the world that isn’t my village in England.  I’ll be going up to Oregon in a week for not-IGC with GarageGames, which promises to be a lot of fun, and then visiting Santa Barbara, LA, Vegas, and the Grand Canyon.   Luckily – what with the US understanding service in a way the Brits don’t – there’ll be free wireless internet in all the hotels I’ll be staying in, so the remaining technical issues with servers and what not will be on my todo list.
Having this trip “in the distance” the last three months has really helped us focus on getting Determinance to where it is now: done.  I’m not so great with arbitrary deadlines, so “get it done by September 29th or you have to code for 10 hours a day while in California” worked extremely well.  We basically hit that deadline, which is fantastic, but as I say there’s still plenty of stuff left to do on the management side… I think I’ve got it under control.

Probably the thing I like least about being in America – in fact, definitely – is the NFL coverage.  You’d imagine that it would be better than in the UK, but whereas at home Sky show me the best games on each week – and I can always use Field Pass to watch anything – here I get to see the best 49ers and Raiders games each week.  Which are usually terrible.  A sports bar is the only answer.

It’s bagel and Sobe time… the zone is free of fools.

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