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Around the start of November Rod and I took a trip over to the US to attend the annual USENIX / SAGE LISA conference, this year held in sunny Seattle. We were there from friday, November 5, to sunday, November 14 and we had a great time. Oh yeah, and we learnt alot too (it was a business trip, after all!).

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Shown here are some photos of the city of Seattle, as seen from the famous Space Needle. We were lucky enough to be greeted with a fine and sunny day on the very last day of our stay in Seattle, as these shots show. The rest of the trip we saw nothing but low, dark clouds and plenty of rain!

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We found Seattle to be a very nice city full of friendly people. The distant views of the snow-capped mountains were awesome.

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A lot of Seattle is set on the banks of bays and lakes. We hired an Escort to take a look around.

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Passing a few "real American cars" like this Lincoln Towncar, and with the help of a GPS, we managed to find the home of Microsoft in Redmond (15 minutes east of downtown Seattle). Of course, we should have guessed the address: 1 Microsoft Way !

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The Microsoft campus is set over a large area with buildings in every direction the eye could see. Luckily it was a sunday so all the workers were locked in the underground dungeons. We even tried to find Bill's house, but he has hidden it too well.