“There aren’t a whole lot of really tall buildings downtown
here. From the 22nd story of an office tower you can see the city
totally spread out around you for miles, until your vision is
stopped either by the horizon, the clouds, or the pollution.”
“It was in a meeting room with this vista, earlier this week,
where the Linux Professional Institute’s Japanese wing took
flight and announced to the world the availability for the first
time of the LPI’s certification exams in a language other than
English. Forgetting the fact that I seemed to have spent more
time flying to Japan than actually staying there last weekend, the
trip left me somewhat awestruck.”