SUNDAY – SYLVIE’S BIRTHDAY & CUERNEVACA by Michael
12/19/2004 at 21:44
We got up early and went to Cuernevaca, a small city about 45 minutes outside of town. Mexico city (simply called Mexico by the locals) was mixed weather, whereas Cuernevaca is called the “city of eternal spring” and it ...
My first 2 days in Mexico have been great. I arrived late on Friday; actually I passed immigration at about 0:15 at night. I took a taxi to Sylvie’s place where there was a small get-together.
WIRELESS AT LAX - OR HOW TO HACK A PROXIM ACCESS POINT by Michael
12/17/2004 at 17:20
I am sitting at the LAX airport, waiting for my flight departure. As always I was sniffing the airwaves for wireless access points. On LAX I was able to see a bunch of Proxim Agere access points, these ...
Malinalli did some magic and Steve loaned me his AMEX card. As the end result, I will go to Mexico City again! Not that I am completely broke, but Mali works at AMEX and they did of course ...
Since the first trip had several mishaps and got terminated a bit earlier than planned I returned to the same area today and hiked a road. During winter time the road is used by snowmobiles and therefore the snow ...
I went to the doctor’s office early to survey and remedy the computer issue. The server had a corrupted registry. It took me all day and part of the night to recover from the damage. But ...
I wanted to take 2 days off for my birthday and go to Utah in to the snow. So I packed my goodies and left town. It is about a 2h and 30 minute drive to an area ...
This weekend I moved about 20 users from one W2K domain to a new Windows Server 2003 based domain. Planning and testing do pay off. It all went very smoothly with some minor hiccups mostly related to Citrix ...
A bad day for the world. The crazy guys will stay for another 4 years dismantling civil rights at home and invading countries up road killing thousands.
As in the past, I started the day out with Starbucks. Right next to Amadeus is the US embassy and Starbuck is in the building adjacent the embassy, just a 3 minute walk from the elevator. Even so ...
I was asked to return to Amadeus for an additional day of work. My task was basically to review any changes that have been made since my assessment. Since only 3 days past (including Sat/Sun) the team was ...
DAY 11 – OXACA CATHEDRAL AND TRIP BACK “HOME” by Michael
10/10/2004 at 09:41
We enjoyed breakfast together, this time in the market. Various small stands are selling local specialties in an environment that is not exactly clean. If you have a western stomach you may want to skip eating here. ...
10 kilometers to the west of Oaxaca City lie the spectacular Monte Alban ruins, perched on a mountaintop high above the surrounding valleys. Leaving Oaxaca below and to the east, the access road winds steeply up a hillside, bringing you ...
Sylvie and I wanted to get away for a 3 day trip to Oxaca. Located in the southern part of the Mexican Republic, the state of Oaxaca is bordered on the north by the states of Puebla and Veracruz, ...
I spend Wednesday and Thursday at Amadeus evaluating there network. Even so I can not share details about my finding I can tell you that I had great fun doing so. I was sitting across the desk from ...
Since it was a weekday and everyone else engaged in gainful employment I decided to take a guided tour (yuk!) to Teotihuacan. In general I despite commercial tours but for today this was the best option. Teotihuacan is ...
I went with Sylvie to work this morning to talk to the General manager at Amadeus. After some brief network snooping I realized that Amadeus Mexico may have use for my services. I prepared a quick 3 hour ...
The Esquivel family planned a trip today to Tepoztlan. So we 5 (Robert, Nadia, Mali, Gina and me) climbed in to Roberts VW and took off. Tepoztlan in the State of Morelos, Mexico, is a small ancient town which ...
In the morning Gina and Nadia picked me up for a city tour. We went to the Frieda Kahlo museum; she was a local painter here in Mexico City. The museum is located in her old residence that ...
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