Tag: Australia

• Driving on the wrong side of the road…

  When coming to Sydney I knew I was going to face a new challenge.  It isn’t that I had never visited a country that drives on the left side of the road, but I had always taken public transport in those places.  In Hong Kong, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Bahamas, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Grand…

  Mitch Garvis

  December 5, 2013

  Australia, Travel

  Australia, Driving, Driving in Australia, Right- and left-hand traffic, Right-side driving, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Toyota Camry

• Tie me Kangaroo Down, Sport!

  When I found out I was coming to Sydney, Australia I made a mental list of things I wanted to do and to see.  So far I have checked off seeing the Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Bondi Beach and Manly Beach.  While walking around Circular Quay I heard an Aboriginal busker playing…

  Mitch Garvis

  December 4, 2013

  Australia, Travel

  Australia, In-room dining, Kangaroo, marriott, Rolf Harris, Sydney Harbour

• Windows Server 2012 Videos from TechEd Australia

  I wasn’t able to get to TechEd in Australia this year (or ever… sigh!).  However the folks from Channel 9 were, and they have a lot of the sessions available on their site.  I hope to find the time to sit through most of them over the next couple of weeks, but there are two…

  Mitch Garvis

  September 21, 2012

  Channel 9, Hyper-V, MSDN, TechEd, Windows Server 2012

  Australia, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2012

• Taekwondo: Care to comment?

  I want to preface this post by saying that I don’t get it.  I have been in Taekwondo for four and a half years, and have in that time achieved my 2nd Dan Black Belt… but even before I started I am reasonably sure that I would not have gotten it. A commentator on Australian…

  Mitch Garvis

  August 30, 2012

  Tae Kwon Do, Taekwondo

  Australia, black belt, Carmen Marton, Footy Show, London, Martial arts, Olympic Games, Taekwondo