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Labels: coding

My new favorite Airline, not just offers a 300Euro flight to Asia, but free WLAN on the road. Super! Just started from Beijing, I can already surf the web. I can even read Wikipedia, which is still blocked in China. The service is offered via a satellite-link from the US. The provider is, although I sit in an Airbus 340-300, Boeing. And with 300KBits/sec one can be quite (un)productive.

As promised, here are my results from the last four weeks of running. I achieved two of three goals. 20 runs and 106km. But my average speed of 6.10min/km is higher than the aimed for 5.30min. Therefor, I will adjust my goals for the next four weeks.

• 20 runs
• 120km
• 6min/km

For a while, I felt pretty good about my running. But today I read about those monks who run 100km every day! Well, maybe next time :-)

Labels: Incentives, Patrick

Prices for flying in Asia, just like in Europe, are falling. But it is still expansive to get to there in the first place. At least is was. Until Lufthansa asked: Are you Read to fly? Including Asia for less than 300Euro. For a roundtrip, that's cheap. They have different destinations every Wednesday. You can book one week ahead. Last week Beijing. Which I'm trying on the weekend. Next week HongKong? Tempting. But I hope for Seoul.

Labels: Asia, Economics