On January 30th, 2009
Oh my god! There is no word to say how good is this restaurant! Pampa Palo Alto It’s an all you can eat with a lot of various meats: the rodizio
Our rodizio style of service allows you to sample an unlimited quantity of our chef’s selection of the highest quality local meats, spit-roasted to perfection on our Brazilian churrasco grill. As part of the rodizio, you also have unlimited access to our side bar, which offers seasonal vegetables, composed salads, artisan cheeses, and myriad Brazilian accompaniments. All of our produce and ingredients represent the freshest local ingredients and respectful treatment of food.
So the thing is on each table, you have a big coin with a red side and a green side. When you put it on the green side, waiters keep going to serve meats on your table. So to stop that, just put on the red side. And if you want more, you can put it again on the green side :)
I would like to say a big thanks to my “new family” lol yeah because they are so kind with me that I would like to stay in SF forever lol seriously, I really had fun this night, it was awesome!
On January 30th, 2009
San Francisco’s Chinatown is the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is also the largest Chinese community outside of Asia, according to The New Encyclopaedia Britannica Micropaedia vol. 10, 2007 Ed. Established in the 1850s, it has featured significantly in popular culture venues such as film, music, photography and literature. It is one of the largest and most prominent centres of Chinese activity outside of China.
Reference: Wikipedia
Welcome to San Francisco Chinatown
On January 29th, 2009
Everybody who have ever been in the US always told me about the best burger ever: In-N-Out Burger. But they forgot to mention that this fast food only existed on the West Coast lol I’ve ever been to California before but I don’t remember the taste at all! So I have the opportunity to go in San Francisco for a week (see my previous post about the convention) and thanks to my friend Hemary, she took me to this fast food! The menu is easy, you only have 3 burgers (Hamburger, Cheeseburger and Double-Double for double meat/double cheese) with French Fries lol but in the burger, you have a yummie sauce which is called “animal style”! It mades with mayonnaise, ketchup, and finely chopped vegetables (pickles, onions, peppers and green olives). And you can have it on your fries with cheese :)
After this delicious meal, we went to Burlingame Downtown for a dessert!
On January 27th, 2009
With Lionel, we managed to have a training on Microsoft SharePoint at San Francisco, CA! In fact, it should be his boss Mike who goes with him but he wasn’t available so I took his place (thanks by the way!). And it’s not too bad because I changed my field at work. I’m not working with SAS anymore but with SharePoint by supporting the Intranet and by building some applications on it. It’s very an oppotunity for me to learn something new and interesting :)
So at this conference (in the holy land of IT by the way), there are a lot of workshops during 3 days. You can check the program right here. So for my first conference, here is my course:
Tuesday, January 27
- 8:30 am - 12:00 pm: W-6 Getting Started Wtih SharePoint Development by Jennifer Mason and John Ross
- 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm: W-7 Leveraging SharePoint for Project Management by Dux Raymond Sy
Wednesday, January 28
- 9:30 am - 10:45 am: 104 SharePoint Best Practices: Doing It Right the first Time by O’Connor, Goodloe, Stegink, Obraztsov and Perez
- 11:00 am - 12:15 pm: 202 Building Business Intelligence Portals by Darrin Bishop
- 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm: 301 To Code or Not to Code: SharePoint Customization Vs. Development by John Ross
- 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm: 405 Create an Electronic Form Solution Using InfoPath and SharePoint by Nicola Young
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm: 506 SharePoint Workflows - Form Out-of-the-Box to Out-of-This-World by Derek Neiding
Thursday, January 29
- 8:30 am - 9:45 am: 601 Fast Track to SharePoint Feature Generation by Bjørn Furuknap
- 10:30 am - 11:45 am: 704 Tuning Memory Management in SharePoint by Michael Lotter
- 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm: 801 Building Scalable, High-Performance SharePoint Apps by Andreas Grabner
- 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm: 902 Excel Services as a Business Intelligence Solution by Jeremy Beaumier
I’m very glad to do this conference because I have a big overview of SharePoint now! But actually, I already have some basics thanks to Lionel who trying to train me! For more information about SharePoint Technology Conference, a blog is also available in The SPTechCon Blog.
On January 24th, 2009
The Gasparilla Pirate Festival is an annual celebration held in the city of Tampa, Florida. Held each year in late January and hosted by Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla and the City of Tampa, it celebrates the apocryphal legend of José Gaspar (Gasparilla), supposedly a Spanish pirate captain who operated in southwest Florida. The theme is an “invasion” by Gasparilla and his men, which begins when the “Krewe” (made up of residents of the city) arrives on a 165′ long pirate ship, the Jose Gaspar, in Tampa Bay and land near downtown Tampa. The mayor of Tampa then lends the key of the city to the pirate captain and a parade ensues down Bayshore Boulevard, one of Tampa’s major streets. The krewes throw beads, coins and other items while shooting blank pistols from floats during the parade. The average attendance for the event is over 400,000 people. According to the event’s official website, 2003’s Gasparilla parade affected an economic impact of nearly 23 million dollars to Tampa.
Reference: Wikipedia
Alright, we arrived a little bit late to the festival lol but we don’t know actually if it’s the right fest we are looking for! Because Gaspartilla Day, it’s supposed to be the day with a parade, throw beads and a lot of peoples drinking beers in the street! So we looked on the website and we saw that the fest lasted around 2 weeks with lots of events! And the parade that we saw was for childrens lol so no alcohol at all… But it was funny anyway!
