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Arjen goes to Auckland (training)

Travelling to Auckland (NZ) today, teaching a “MySQL 5.0 for DBAs” training course this week. I’ll also be visiting AuckLUG on Monday evening. If you would like to catch up, just drop me a line (arjen @ you know where).

New lessons learnt at Brisbane airport…

  • finally found a shop (after security that sells Double Coat TimTams;
  • don’t get melts or mochas from “BLD” – expensive and not-so-good;
  • it’s still a friendly & fast airport.

AirNZ still has good legspace even on their 747-400s (they also have 777s), and my 13″ MacBook fits perfectly on the tray table. Speaking of the MacBook, they wanted to weigh my backpack and finally it weighted in at around 6kg including a bottle of water, a few books, etc. That’s all new and good, as with my old Dell Inspiron 8500 (big widescreen, plus its power brick), airline officials often were got unhappy with the weight. Glorious.
Other good things with AirNZ include friendly staff, good food, icecream or hot brownie desserts, plastic but usable cutlery, and their homebase Auckland airport is very decent.

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