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A Week in Poland, Part 4 : Kraków / Warsaw
After the emotional roller coaster of visiting Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Grant and I were both very glad to be on to brighter and happier places. We stopped in Kraków but our time …
A Week in Poland, Part 3 : Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
The main Auschwitz I camp (I blogged about earlier) gets all the attention. It has most of the iconic imagery everyone associates with the Holocaust, most notably the “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate (“Work Sets You …
A Week in Poland, Part 2 : Auschwitz I
I feel all kinds of different emotions for all kinds of different people – sorrow, envy, pity, joy. But nothing is as breathtaking as stepping inside a concentration camp, and the inevitable and involuntary feelings …
A Week in Poland, Part 1 : Wrocław
This week I’ve been in Poland – for the first half of the week I spoke at SQLDay in Wrocław, and now I’m doing some tooling around the country. This was some fantastic isolated rain …
Recovering old photos
So these jerks over at “New Ventures Corp” scooped up my domain (aaronbertrand.com), are squatting on it, and won’t entertain offers < $500 USD. So, they can keep it. I thought that all of my …
CanAm Cup 2015
This weekend we had our first full-family road trip since Nora was born. The occasion? Our annual curling pilgrimage. What a blast! While I finished second for at least the 5th year in a row …
Nora Autumn Grace Bertrand
Nora was born at 4:12 PM, September 15th, 2014, weighing in at 9 lbs, 6 oz.