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    Turns out when you arrive in a monsoon, your bags get delayed like an hour. At least it meant I got to meet up with @startupmarkb and @rohinigaonkar!


    I found the Aussies!! ❤️🇦🇺 #AWSCommunityAPAC



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    The Whitlams: their 25 best songs – sorted! – #1 is a contender for the Saddest and Most Beautiful Song Ever Written, in my opinion. https://t.co/sVVE3tRDeL


    @Amys_Kapers @BuildStuffConf @larsklint Yay! If you want to stop off in Munich on the way there/back, there’s a guest room you know… 🙂


    Heading to Bangkok, Thailand – a brand new country for me! Looking forward to meeting all the folks at the #AWSCommunityAPAC Summit. ❤️🇹🇭 @ Munich Airport https://t.co/4AOIFAFm7O



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    Heading to Bangkok, Thailand – a brand new country for me! Looking forward to meeting all the folks at the #AWSCommunityAPAC Summit. ❤️🇹🇭



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    The naked ambition of Spencer Tunick – in pictures – See that last photo of the Sydney Opera House? The Snook and I are in there somewhere… https://t.co/44wC2wSdHG


    @geoffwhill It was an incredible morning I’ll never forget… but I’m also happy I didn’t see anyone I know. 😂


    @simonwaight My one worry on the day was running into someone I recognise. 😂



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    The article includes his photo from the Sydney Opera House in 2010. Rodd and I are in there somewhere (and we have a print of one of the alternate shots on the day), but we’ve never been able to spot ourselves!



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    Working on a keynote I’ll be delivering next week. Last night I had a nightmare that Tr*mp came to watch it and heckled me. On the upside, I got some ideas from the version I was presenting in the dream…



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    RT @harrietprebble: This viral marketing campaign for Tame Iti’s “I Will Not Speak Māori” installation/performance is a stroke of genius. E…


    RT @Poetron5000: Forget Dungeons & Dragons, I want to play https://t.co/0Z1MI90jzr


    Went out for dinner tonight with yet another Aussie-in-Munich: @AndyDentPerth and his missus Rosalie. We toasted to all our friends getting together at #dddperth this weekend! ❤️🇦🇺🍻 https://t.co/oN8rwWzKI0



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    RT @rohini_gaonkar: We also had AWS Data Hero @Sridevijms21 and AWS Hero @DipaliKulshres1 on the stream explaining Object Oriented programm…


    I left like 20 channels in Slack today, and it felt like radical self-care. https://t.co/G0Xzcmq7un



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    RT @AWSOpen: Today, Amazon is excited to #opensource a key technology that powers EventBridge. Event Ruler is a Java library that allows yo…


    I swear, the number of Aussie friends I’ve met up with in Munich is ridiculous! (Yes, technically @polleyg is Irish and lives in Germany now, but he still counts.) ❤️🍻 🇦🇺 https://t.co/0tkn3uUWPa



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    I swear, the number of Aussie friends I’ve met in Munich is ridiculous! (Yes, technically Graham lives in Germany now, but he still counts.) ❤️🍻




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