{"id":1327,"date":"2008-06-17T07:15:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T13:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2008\/06\/17\/quick-recap\/"},"modified":"2012-04-01T10:26:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T09:26:04","slug":"quick-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2008\/06\/quick-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a brief summary of what happened last week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arrived back Sunday to catch up with Ajit and Luca at one of my favourite gastro pubs, conveniently located about three blocks away, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dovepubs.com\/dovetail\">The Dovetail<\/a><\/strong>. Surprisingly unbusy on the Sunday evening, we had some wonderful burgers washed down by some even better Belgian Beers like Chimay Blu. Unfortunately they don&#8217;t have boar burgers on their menu any more apparently because it&#8217;s difficult to find any organic suppliers, so I went for a lamb burger instead. What a way to settle back into town!<\/li>\n<li>I dropped into our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoughtworks.co.uk\"><strong>office<\/strong><\/a> on Monday to have a chat with a number of people including the new <a href=\"http:\/\/marcus.ahnve.net\/\">Managing Director<\/a> for our new Swedish office. It was great to catch up with people, and then caught up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerrod.com\">Gerrod and Kristy<\/a> at another of my favourite eating places, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wahaca.com\/\">Wahaca<\/a>. Wonderful evening although the tiny table meant both Kristy and I spilt some food at some stage.\n<li>The following day, I headed out to <strong>Limerick <\/strong>for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekua.com\/atwork\/2008\/06\/16\/xp2008\/\">XP2008 conference<\/a> and had a great time catching up with a number of people from previous years and indulging in decent weather (for Ireland). I somehow managed to return with <em>two<\/em> umbrellas though that&#8217;s a whole other story. The conference ended with a huge dinner at a Castle about half an hour away from the city, before returning to London.<\/li>\n<li>Quickly unpacking and repacking on Saturday, I also ended up at one of our <strong>internal conferences<\/strong>, this time held at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regents.ac.uk\/\">Regents College<\/a> right in the middle of Regents Park. An evening BBQ with plenty of food and drink saw us enjoy the summertime atmosphere surrounded by old friends and colleagues.<\/li>\n<li>I also managed to catch up with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekua.com\/sista\">sister<\/a> over some <strong>Dim Sum<\/strong> before heading out to the airport where we sat for an extra hour because of the arrival of Bush.<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A busy yet thoroughly enjoyable week and I look forward to more of it when I return in late July. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a brief summary of what happened last week: Arrived back Sunday to catch up with Ajit and Luca at one of my favourite gastro pubs, conveniently located about three blocks away, The Dovetail. 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