New Post on my technology blog

My thoughts on Non-Competes

Hello all, since this is more along the lines of employment advice, I am posting this in my tech blog. It is a post that I think is of a serious nature, about a situation that a friend of mine experienced, but I will not be putting my friends name in the post to protect his anonymity. About a month ago a friend of mine came to me with comments about a non-compete they had signed. The non-compete was simply a general statement and they were going to have to leave the company because of issues with the management. Full Post: http://yonaitis.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-thoughts-on-non-competes.html

First hike (USA) of the year

Well, when I set out yesterday to go on a hike I thought it would be a simple thing. Weather in the 60’s and a couple miles down/up a small ravine in Vermont. It did not quite work out that way.  While the Heavy black linen shirt and jacket (as seen in the picture to the right) were not required for the heat, however, the boots were required for the Ice, Snow and Mud. I have never hiked up through snow and what I have learned is that Uphill in snow and ice is very difficult. The water was ice cold, probably lucky that I did not fall in, climbing down ice covered rocks was probably not the smartest thing I have ever done. But of importance, I still am willing to take risk for the view.

 

Perhaps that says much about life, whether or not you are willing to take a risk for the view, and view can be any number of things! I have decided to modify my next trip, instead of going to India I will go to Machu Picchu, Peru.  This will be a good trip as I will get to chew coca leaves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca never chewed em… I also am going to do a two day hike up the old Inca trail, this should be fantastic. If anyone has ever been there please send tips. Like where to stay what to do, etc…

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, cheers, rob

 

 

New Post in my Technology Blog

What is the goal of the W3C Presentation: “Web Accessibility is Smart Business”

http://yonaitis.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-is-goal-of-w3c-presentation-web.html

Back from Vietnam and Hong Kong

Well the week in Asia was interesting but It took me a week to recover from the trip! I guess doing both Hong Kong and Vietnam was a bit too much to bite off for one trip.  Hong Kong was very interesting, I got a good look at the ex-pats that live in Hong Kong (this is a site http://expatfail.com/ that has stickers all over in Hong Kong) and learned how the HSBC building can be taken down piece by piece and moved.  It is interesting that this is a city in china but still has a bit of a western feel. I enjoyed hearing the history from the British side, note it does not quite match the history you may have heard and of course the British were wronged according to the story teller.

The buildings were all so large and many were living space versus office buildings. It is of course a very populated city. I did take a day away from work stuff to travel to Macau Island, and yes another flag for the ceiling of my office.  Macau was a bit quieter but not much. This island was a Portuguese island where Hong Kong was British. Just like Hong Kong Macau is part of China but as a special operating area, different set of rules. While in Macau I visited a temple, from this temple you could look across the water and see the Chinese mainland. The tour guide told us that before China opened up people would swim to their freedom.  I find this quite interesting.

After Hong Kong I took a quick trip to South East Asia, Vietnam is an absolutely amazing country to visit.  The Taxi from the airport was a little less than 8 dollars, from the airport to the Saigon River, by The Hotel Majestic. It was late at night but the city was awake, and I went to the 8th floor of the hotel, got a drink and looked out over the river and the city. If you go to the Hotel majestic in Saigon you need to try this club. Club M, I think it is called.  The next morning I took a tour of some temples, and an old region where there were VC Tunnels. It was great to see the places I have read about, I am the type that likes to read and then go out of the two places on this trip I found Hong Kong to be so So and Vietnam to be awesome. The Second day I went all over Saigon, the major sites and markets. This was a great day of local foods and stuff, however i am pretty sure this is where i caught my bug that put me down for my first three days back in the states.

I came home with about 1.5 Million Viet Dong (85$) and i look forward to going back to Vietnam soon to spend it. OK time to go back to a google chrome extension video.

Cheers,

Rob