Dulwich Hill Bicycle Club

I'm in Portland Oregon for 28 hours and it is bke heaven.
There's a bike assembly area at the airport.
Bike lanes everywhere, some on the freeway and cars have to give way to bikes at off-ramps.
Light rail has bike spaces with hooks, see below.
Helmets aren't compulsory.
But try finding a post to lock onto? They're all taken!

Watch out for rain and snow through the year.

Enjoy your stay!

Another piece of portland bike awesomeness - the Airport's bike assembly area. Okay it is not much more than a workstand. But at least it is there!


I also discovered a favorite post-ride stop in Portland, the incomparable Voodoo Doughnut. I bumped into some guys there who had just finished a 10-day, 600km and 10,000 metres of climbing tour.

A bike stand! that's pretty good. I was reading about Portland just last week in "It's all about the bike" - he went there to buy his wheels I think. Did you bring back souvenirs for show and tell?

if you are still there Simon, the best coffee to be had is at a place called "public domain" http://www.publicdomaincoffee.com/
enjoy
where to next??

I'm home now. It was a lightning trip at the end of a press junket to Las Vegas, where I did not see a single moving bicycle. The 44 degree temperatures may have had something to do with that ...

You were in Vegas a few weeks early, Interbike isn't on until the 14th.

Yes but all the excitement of VMworld2011 was there. I can now tell you more than is sensible about mobile pools of layer 2 IP addresses ...

So where's VMW Fusion 4.0?

I reckon fusion and mobile ip addresses isn't half as interesting as the trainwreck around vRam licensing and pissed off loyal customers. A good potential topic for a journo covering vmworld, but might be a bit of a minefield if the junket was paid for by vmware!

A confession: I used to do Microsoft PR (ducks) and was on the team when they introduced what was called licensing 6 about 10 years ago.
Long story short, the Microsoft community screamed at least as long and loud as VMware's and got precisely nowhere. Over many months we copped it from all sides. Microsoft changed nothing. Eventually the protests went away because of the stonewalling.
So I reckon that while VMware made a bit of an ambit claim on licensing and rightly got kicked around. But they did wind it back. A bit. Sure you'll still pay more. But not as much as they started out wanting to charge you.
Having said that, a licensing mess just isn't what I cover, but it did get a good airing elsewhere.

WTF is VMW?

Vampire Melodrama for Women?

vmware helps you turn one real computer into several pretend computers, which is rather more efficient.
pretend computers are called 'virtual machines', hence VM hence VMware.