Archive for the 'Costa Rica' Category

Greg’s talks on the new architecture of CmapTools, and its extendability through webservices

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Greg just gave a humorous talk this afternoon how CmapTools had been opened up. Before the latest version you’d have to build the code as a module in the server or into the client, learning how to using the IHMC architecture and event module.

This put a heavy burden on the programmer, and on the IHMC, […]

We’re going dancing

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Sylvia has arranged for us to go dancing after this evening’s event. Salsa, Merengue, all in true Costa Rican style. Our destination is  “Bar Castro” in the area called “Barrio Mexico”, a local bar that’s a five minute taxi ride…
Look out for myself or Sylvia… or Simone… or Robert Abrams… we’ll be getting taxis around […]

Photos from last night’s meal

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

About 20 of us headed off to Fago’s Brazilian Restaurant last night. We celebrated the start of the conference by arriving enthusiastically, eating way too much red meat, and drinking copious quantities.
Here’s a couple of pictures… I know others took some, hopefully others will upload theirs.

Back in San Jose

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

Hello all!
My wife Andrea and I have just arrived back in San Jose after a great trip down the Caribbean coast, ending in the stunning Calhuita National Park.
We are now located in Gaudy’s Backpacker Hostel: http://www.backpacker.co.cr/ - they have a few private double rooms available, for a very reasonable $25 a night. By the look […]

Puerto Limon to Puerto Viejo… Panama cancelled!

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

We swam in the ocean about 7am this morning - the beaches at Tortuguero  have fabulous waves that crash in every direction. You can be 3 meters out and be up to your waist yet still feel really immersed! This Carribean sea is quite different to the Pacific side - calmer, warmer and quite a […]

San Jose… to Tortuguero… via…

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

My wife Andrea and I have been visiting Costa Rica for the last couple of weeks prior to visiting the conference… as others are going to be in the area I thought it might be good to help others to know some things worth seeing.
We landed in San Jose. Our first day was a day […]