Day 1 Kyoto

First 24 hours have been pretty good. The car we hired to get us from the airport to the hotel had GPS which was pretty cool. Around a quarter of the cars in Japan seem to have GPS mapping in them.

It is pretty cold here – around six degrees. And in fact has been snowing today. Of course I am still comfortable in a tee-shirt thanks to years of living in Dunedin!

The conference centre is huge, and in fact is the actual one used for negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol. I’ll blog photos later.

What has been great is the bandwidth. I have been getting massively fast downloads. If I was at home I would have already exceeded my 10 GB monthly allowance in a few hours. I think my laptop is about to burst into flames from over-use.

The meeting today has been fairly extensive – APTLD AGM, and for the five people out there interested in domain name issues, I’ll blog a summary tonight.

Oh yeah, I have also finally got around to installing Skype and am in love with it. Superb quality and allows to talk through your computer for free to anyone else using Skype or to a proper phone for around 10% of a normal phone call. If you are on Skype and know me, e-mail me for my username.