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Life & style: Nick Bishop has cerebral palsy. He explains how he deals with everyday obstacles like a pint with his mates
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As you read this, Iâll be winging my way to Prague, where Iâm helping facilitate a two-day CIO round table on IT in emerging markets. Donât worry â itâs not a boondoggle. Just an out-and-back trip (flying coach) â and Iâll probably be too jet-lagged to enjoy the beer.
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Pioneer struggles with turnover at its highest levels.
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(InfoWorld) - What makes a great geek vacation? Well, high-speed access from even the most obscure locale is a given. Then throw in some activities to stimulate the brain cells, maybe a dose of electronic entertainment, possibly a bit of techie history, and you're most of the way there. Of course, it also helps if your chosen location is frequented by similarly techie folks and has some out-of-the-mainstream cred, meaning it would make your non-alpha geek friends roll their eyes. Our readers weighed in with their choices. InfoWorld editors share more of their favorites, adding to yesterday's list of top vacation spots.                                                     Mount Everest If you're in search of an adventure getaway that requires you to really get away -- but still don't want to miss that important e-mail message -- there's no reason to mess around at some tropical resort. What you want is to climb the world's highest, most treacherous peak: Mount Everest. At the Base Camp Cyber Cafe, owner and sherpa Tsering Gyaltsen (the grandson of one of Sir Edmund Hillary's sherpa team members) offers satellite-fed 802.11b wireless Internet access at the highest ground-level point on the planet, nearly 18,000 feet above sea level. At about $1 per minute for access, this won't be the cheapest Internet connection you've ever used. But despite Base Camp being situated on a moving glacier on the edge of Everest's Great Ice Fall, at least it's reliable: Service comes via a wireless link between a satellite dish in the nearby town of Namche Bazar and the camp. And there's another good reason to feel good about using the service: Outside of the March-through-May climbing season, the infrastructure provides distance learning opportunities for the sherpa children in town.      Route 128, Boston Anyone who remembers DEC, Lotus, or Wang will enjoy a trip along this tech-heavy highway that runs from Canton to Gloucester in Boston's suburbs. Although more actual work than tourism takes place here, geek highlights include a pilgrimage to the MIT campus and, of course, its science museum. The first modern American factory opened in the town of Waltham; check it out for early examples of mass-produced goods. In Boston, the Museum of Science offers a wealth of exhibits, an IMAX theater, and a planetarium. While you're in town, try the local sport of candlepin bowling. Iceland It's one of the most isolated cultures in the world -- and one of the most wired. Sure, it has a pristine environment with beautiful scenery, an interesting cultural      history, fjords, hot springs, and plenty more to make for a fascinating vacation destination. But on top of all that, broadband connectivity is as plentiful as, well, ice. In fact, Iceland leads the world in per-capita broadband adoption. So wherever you go, chances are you'll be plugged in. Iceland is not a very big place, most of its interior is uninhabitable, and much of its population lives in the capital city of Reykjavik, but there is much to see and do around most of the perimeter of the island, from skiing to rafting to nature-watching. The Visit Iceland travel guide contains lots of good background info for Icelandic activities. If you want to get around, you might want to consider booking flights rather than driving. Roads hug the fjord-pocked coastline, meaning some places that can take upward of nine hours to drive to are but a 45-minute flight away. Also a short flight away: Finland, the extremely tech-friendly Scandinavian country that's home to IT companies such as Nokia. Defcon in Las Vegas      If you've ever wondered how the world's elite cybersecurity professionals get away from it all, look no further than the Defcon computer security conference, which takes place around the end of July every year in Las Vegas. Even with outside temperatures topping nearly 120 degrees, you'll find more black-leather-clad, pierced geeks by the pool at the Riviera Hotel than anywhere outside of a bondage gear trade show. For security wonks, this is a dream come true, whether you're attending lectures and educational sessions about the newest hacking techniques, participating in hacking contests, or shopping for security-themed gear. Where else can you snag a full selection of lock-picking sets, satellite dishes, or a "My kid hacked your Honor Student's e-mail account" T-shirt? When the sun goes down, prepare to experience nightlife, hacker style, with the Black and White Costume Ball; anime and film festivals; and even Hacker Jeopardy -- a live game show featuring experts and volunteer audience members. Just remember: Don't use an unencrypted wireless Internet connection on the premises, or they may project your username and password on the Wall of Sheep, a 20-foot-high screen. Space tourism      You don't have to be an ex-boy bander (ahem, erstwhile *NSync-er Lance Bass) to book a space tourist flight, but you'll probably require a similar cash flow -- and you'll need to learn that the preferred term is "personal spaceflight" so as not to offend your travel agent and/or Mission Control. For the moment, the Russian government is the only outfit offering personal spaceflight, and even with a price tag of $20 million, the Russian Space Agency claims to be booked until 2009. But fear not, intrepid would-be astronauts! The private sector is looking to get in on the action, and at rock-bottom prices to boot, so long as several hundred thousand dollars strikes you as being a bargain-basement price. Richard Branson has jumped to the forefront of personal spaceflight with Virgin Galactic, which he calls "the world's first spaceline," joined by others, including Space Adventures and John Carmack's (yeah, the guy who created Doom) Armadillo Aerospace. Presently, private personal spaceflight offers suborbital flights that serve up a couple minutes of weightlessness and a once-in-a-lifetime view. Not quite the same thing as the trips to the International Space Station that the Russian government has been providing, but still far beyond anything that can be experienced on terra firma.SEE ALSO:Top 10 geek vacations
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Get to them before everyone else does.
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How do you get on the Metropolitan Opera stage? Stand in line.
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Elevation. Everyone's familiar with it, but only a rare breed can attain it. It's the intangible that allows a player to make his teammates play beyond their natural abilities.
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Space travel, education consultant Marie &quot;Mel&quot; Moreau says, is more than going up. &quot;Astronauts could not go up in space without people wanting to work as ground crew,&quot; she said. &quot;Proper communication is vitally important.
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Start on the path to wealth with an attitude adjustment.
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It looked good on paper: Use huge, golden-colored limestone rocks to make an overhang 130 feet above the entrance of the National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall. It would look like the overhang in a Southwest canyon. No ugly, concrete columns underneath: It would seem as though suspended in air.
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What could be better after a hard day's sightseeing?
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By Millar, Heather  It seems like such a tall order: Proactively plan human activities so that they mesh with the natural environment. Try to approach nature as a system, even though we don't now, and may never, fully understand all of its' complexities.
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Any time I drive to a place for the first time, I get directions. Sometimes I do this even if I've been there before. I'm always looking for an easier, quicker way to get from here to there.
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One will rise and one must fall.  The phone rings. It's Mom. She wants to know if I'm still alive. This happens more often than you'd think. A bridge has collapsed. I wasn't on it (sorry, guys), but I may well have been.  Hanging up with Mom, I do what every self-respecting blogger with delusions of legitimate journalistic credentials would do: put on my headphones, grab the camera, hop on the bike and go scoop the MSM.
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Get your company off to the right start.
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It is 4:30 a.m. on Saturday, and my wife, Sara, and I are driving up Georgia Avenue toward Olney. Our destination: Shoppers Food Warehouse on Route 108. Our mission: to get our flu shots. The big question: Will we arrive in time?
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