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sometimes security it seems to be too efficent. Told to be at the airport 3 hrs ahead of my flight, it took only 15 min to get boarding passes, and another 10 to get thru security. Marrissa looked sorry to see me leave. I could have turned up an hour later without any ill effects.

Anchorage, Tokyo, Osaka, Taipei. Cathy Pacific seems to like flying.over or near major cities. All of the above are impressive cities. Flying such a route over Japan also means that we got an amazing aerial view of Mt. Fuji. When you are flying at 10900m, and a mountain protrudes well up into the sky, you just know it is BIG.

So now I'm in HK airput after my flight from YVR. Arrived gate 70, and i will be departing via gate 62 in about 2 hours. l wandered around the airport for a while, taking in the sights. It does seem that the airport has 802.11b wireless, but I can't connect to it. Some weird security system is in place. I wandered about, looking for various things, such as an Internet café and the price for a Gameboy Advance for Mike. Nothing of the former to be found, but I did find a jewelery store by the name of CyberSun 24/7. Yup, you heard right, a 24 hour jewelery store. Not even the W.H. Smith news vendors were open that much. The GBA I found on special for HK$ 888.

If somebody wants to trace any Hong Kong airport wireless, here are some details:
DNS Server: 218.102.23.228
Gateway, DHCP Server: 210.177.174.52
Netmask: 0xFF000000
All IP adresses allocated seemed to be in 210.177.174.0/26.

One thing that did confound me was the signal strength. Nowhere in the airport was it less than 95%! I roamed all over the airport, and it is a BIG airport.

5 and 1/2 hours into the flight. Passing over Sri Lanka, almost directly over Columbo, then on in a south western bearing, until we were south of the tip of India (Nagercoil), and east of the Maldives we hit some minor turbulence. Or if you want to judge by the actions of one of the atttendants, the baddest turbulence out there. I was waiting to go to the washroom at the time, and he just chased me back to my seat. I later heard the purser chastising him for something else so I would assume he was just a little gung-ho. 25 minutes further into the flight we passed directly over Malë, Maldives confirming my earlier observation abut this airline. Along with several others, I snuck to the washroom when the attendant wasn't looking. Looking back at the in-flight map, it seems we passed directly over Bangkok as well.

Passing the equator soon. It's a pity that airlines don't have Neptune parties. I've crossed the equator at least 10 times in my life, without a single party.

Given that it's 12:28am in south africa i'm going to try and get some more sleep now.

Slept some. Passed over the island of Victoria while sleeping according to Greg. From the map it looks like we are going to fly in via the Madasgarian (i forgot the real name) channel. The floght info says 3h25min left. Greg is leaning on my shoulder to try and sleep. He is unsucessful.

Tommorow I'm writing a certification exam for MySQL.

There is a large pile of stuff to learn

I woke up at 2pm today, after a nice long 11 hours of sleep. Catching up on sleep good :-).

I had an email from Gordon, saying there was an ominous peice of mail for me, from SFU Library loans department. I decide to go down there to take a look at it...

They wanted to bill me $11 in fines, so I went down to see the library people. Get this at what happened: Originally, because I was working for TechBC during the changeover, I got an SFU library number. The only details that were listed for me were staff and my address was entered as TechBC. No phone number. Now, thanks to their lovely policy of changing loan periods from a semester down to 3 weeks, a book I had taken out, originally due 3-January-2002 was now overdue, them having wanted it back on November 18th. They tried to notify me of this fact, via postal mail, which I never recieved, because my address was listed only as TechBC. They also didn't have any email address in the system for me, thanks to the same bloopers. The only reason I got the mail about a large fine was because it got passed thru several people at TechBC SFU@Surrey to get to me. Anyway, after chatting to them, and they found this was the problem, they changed the details they had listed for me in the library system, and cancelled my $11 fine.

I also then took out a tripod for the weekend to do some photography of christmas lights and so forth.