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Checkin to Bamiyan (バーミヤン)
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The Week #100
by James- I made it to 100 consecutive weeks "The Week"! The last ~5 weeks or so, I wasn't sure if I was going to make it 100 weeks in a row, but I have. I've done a bit more thinking since last week, and I think I'll continue doing these roundups for a while longer / foreseeable future.
- I'm back in Japan and it's good to be home. London is great, I wouldn't mind living there for a year or two someday. But your own bed in your own home? Nothing beats it. I will, however, miss the easy access to shawarma and falafel.
I'll also miss working with the rest of the team in London. We'll still be working together, remotely of course, but it's a good group of people. Getting work done is the main reason for the trip, but building these team relationships in person are another, just as important reason, for having trips like these.
Expect a London roundup post later this week as a cap-off to the London trip. - I meant to include this last week, but forgot. Last week saw the launch of a new tube line, the Elizabeth line, in London. As that doesn't happen everyday, I started searching around and I found this great YouTuber, Geoff Marshall, who makes great videos about all things trains in the U.K. Very good channel and if you like public transport, I highly recommend it.
I was planning to take the Elizabeth line to Heathrow, but I found out that it's not running on Sundays yet. - After taking Tanzawa trips through the paces these past 2-weeks, I think I'm quite happy with how it worked out. The main pain-point is that when I checkin with Swarm, I use swarm to also post to Twitter. However, that tweet url isn't associated with the post automatically, so I have to manually lookup the tweet url, add it to syndication urls, and then tell brid.gy to "discover" posts.
For a single checkin every now and again, it's a fine workflow. But for an actual trip, it's a hassle. First, I need to build in some native syndication into Tanzawa (not just to Twitter, but wherever). Once that's finished, then I can set my checkins to automatically syndicate to Twitter and post my backfed Swarm checkins to Twitter via my blog.
Third, I think I want to add push notifications to LINE or Telegram when I get webmentions on my blog, so I can tell when the checkin has been backfed or if I get comments via micro.blog etc..
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Checkin to Tokyo International (Haneda) Airport (HND) (東京国際空港 (羽田空港))
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Taking the Southern route back to Japan, which means I’ll have literally circumnavigated the globe on this trip.
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by JamesStarting on a new book, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport and while I’m reading it the woman’s phone next to me is emitting (presumably) candy crush sound effects and iMessage message noises non-stop. Makes it difficult to concentrate 😀.
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Checkin to BA Galleries Club Lounge
So nice and quiet in the lounges. A real reprieve from the bright lights of the duty free mall. Also beer.Kuwait airlines. Lots of airlines I don't usually see here in London. -
Checkin to Terminal 3
Arrived a bit too early, but whaddayagonnado? -
Checkin to Radisson Blu Edwardian Bloomsbury Street Hotel
Last breakfast at the hotel. Glad I didn’t know eggs Benedict was an option until today, as I would’ve gotten it every time and burned out. -
by JamesA pigeon went on a bit of explore through the front door of the restaurant I was just eating at.
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Checkin to British Museum
Should’ve come earlier in the day. This place is amazing. Largest collection of Egyptian artifacts outside of Egypt, the Rosetta Stone etc.
