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Friday 16-April (11am): My friend, Phoebe.

When I first started to put the Dalian site together, there was no team in China. Just me… me and Phoebe. Phoebe was the project manager assigned by the Dalian Software Park team to help us negotiate the task of…

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Wednesday 14-April (7pm): Hot Pot!

One of my colleagues, Tracy, had been to Nashville a year or so ago and we spent a lot of time together then. She took me shopping on Wednesday night. I wasn’t good company – the jet lag had hit…

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Wednesday 14-April (10am): Hello, Dalian!

I arrived last night. Rod Stewart is playing in the lobby. Yes, in China. And it’s the ‘show tunes’ album he put out a few years back (so no ‘Maggie’ or ‘Gasoline Alley’). I will find over the course of…

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Monday 12-April (4am): Wow, it’s early!

Leaving for Dalian now… then on to Bangalore. Can’t wait to see the teams; I have been away from my friends far too long. The other night in yoga (here @ home), I heard a buzzer/horn sound off in one…

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I’m here…

Yes, I really am. My nickname of “Martha (Stewart) with a toolbelt” has never been more true. But I’m jumping ahead… It has, after all, been four days since I lost contact with “my world” and a status update is…

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Off to ChIndia!

“ChIndia,” you say? Well, yes. I’m headed to China and then India for the next three weeks. My trek to China begins early Monday morning, flying through Chicago and on to Shanghai before reaching my destination in Dalian. There’ll be…

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