Monday, September 17, 2007

Moving and Austria

So we have a new house in Medfield! All of our PODS showed up on Saturday and it looks like most of our stuff made it in it's requisite number of parts, but we'll see when it's all unloaded.

Meanwhile, I took off Saturday to Munich. Arrived on Sunday and had a road trip to Innsbruck, Austria. Lovely town and beautiful weather. I'll try to get some photos online today if possible.

Attending the UbiComp conference for the next couple of days. I've found at least one person that I know from GT (Gregory Abowd) and likely will find a couple others along the way.

Opening keynote is coming up Antonio Calvosa from Ferrari...should go fast :-)

Friday, September 14, 2007

Home

Nearly there, we close on the house in mere hours (http://www.flickr.com/photos/22868073@N00/sets/72157601442689857/). Looking forward to getting out of our little tiny one room hotel suite!

We should be able to take possession immediately and start evacuating from the hotel. The PODS are scheduled to show up tomorrow, so I'm hoping to be able to get some of the basics (mattresses) out before I fly off to Europe. Yup, me being me, I fly off to Munich tomorrow afternoon to leave Pam to get us moved in. Aren't I sweet?!?

I'll be attending UbiComp which is held in Innsbruck, and then off to Loca2007 which is in Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich. Back in the States Saturday evening.

Hopefully once back, I'll be able to find all of my things (like the card reader for my camera) and get back into the swing of things.

Work is going great, the kids are liking their school, but I think it'll get even better once we are in our new place and can call it home!

Kipp

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Hello Boston!

Well, the summer has wrought quite the change. Whist pursuing my degree at Georgia Tech, I've been working with a company in Boston, Skyhook Wireless as I've used a lot of their data for my research in wireless positioning and mobile location services.

Well, they closed another round of funding in July and subsequently invited me to join the team. After due consideration, I accepted and the family has thus been thrust into the midst of a move to the Boston area. We're excited by the opportunity, but still trying to get our northeastern legs under us.

The company is located in downtown Boston and we've located a house in Medfield...a 'burb that puts me about 35 minutes of train ride away. The house is rather old -- built in 1751! But it's in good shape and came with 1.5 acres of land, so we're stoked.

The girls started school today and so far so good!

I'll post more info and pictures soon.

Kipp