Isn't the internet wonderful - here I am connected in from Venice's Marco Polo airport using my own laptop, looking out over planes arriving and departing ... we have a couple of hours window (slack) between the arrival of our boat and the departure of our plane.
Phone to email
Fax to email
People writing direct by email ....
and we can stay in touch and run the office from "The Med". Mind (and this is a HARD sell ;-) ) it was a business trip - you'll see comments appearing here and updates appearing in our courses, looking forward to the future having heard lectures by the authors of PHP, Perl and MySQL. Our training is on the current production releases of all these pieces of software and it will remain so. That's what our customers want to learn and use. However - we can (and do) have a brief look to the future on each course - introducing terms and concepts that are growing in popularity, and ensuring that we don't lead trainees down the road of functionality that's in the process of deprecation.
Oh - I've got off subject. Not unusual.
I was also commenting that we're on line at least once every 24 hours ... just been looking at past customer's questions, and getting ready for tomorrow's Tcl course.
(written 2004-10-17, updated 2008-05-11)
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