Warren in India

Warren in India

Fri, 17 Dec 2004

My itinerary
I received my ticket today. Good news: it's "only" about 21 hours to Bangalore.

Outbound

ORD->FRA
Lufthansa 9151
Boeing 777
4,342 miles FRA->BLR
Lufthansa 1610
Boeing 747
4,615 miles
Depart Arrive Depart Arrive

Local: 06:30 PM 10-Feb-2005 09:45 AM 11-Feb-2005 11:35 AM 11-Feb-2005 02:55 AM 12-Feb-2005

Chicago: 06:30 PM 10-Feb-2005 02:45 AM 11-Feb-2005 04:35 AM 11-Feb-2005 03:25 PM 11-Feb-2005

Bangalore: 06:00 AM 11-Feb-2005 02:15 PM 11-Feb-2005 04:05 PM 11-Feb-2005 02:55 AM 12-Feb-2005

Inbound

BLR->FRA
Lufthansa 755
Airbus A-340
4,615 miles FRA->ORD
Lufthansa 430
Boeing 747
4,342 miles
Depart Arrive Depart Arrive

Local: 01:45 AM 05-Jun-2005 08:00 AM 05-Jun-2005 10:10 AM 05-Jun-2005 12:00 PM 05-Jun-2005

Chicago: 03:15 PM 04-Jun-2005 01:00 AM 05-Jun-2005 03:10 AM 05-Jun-2005 12:00 PM 05-Jun-2005

Bangalore: 01:45 AM 05-Jun-2005 11:30 AM 05-Jun-2005 01:40 PM 05-Jun-2005 10:30 PM 05-Jun-2005

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Wed, 08 Dec 2004

Fun facts about Bangalore

Bangalore is in southern India, about 8500 miles from Chicago and about 8400 miles from Detroit.

(For reference, Chicago and Detroit are about 240 miles apart as the crow flies, and Chicago is about 4000 miles from London, England. Since the Earth's circumference is about 24900 miles, Bangalore is over 1/3 of the way around the world from Chicago. Whoa.)

The weather in Bangalore is pretty different from the midwest.

I'm going to be there during the hot, not-so-rainy months, it seems. I hope my hotel has air-conditioning.

Bangalore is a big city -- I've read different estimates, but it seems that its metropolitan area is slightly more populous than the Chicago metropolitan area.

During North American standard time, Bangalore is 10 1/2 hours ahead of Detroit, and 11 1/2 hours ahead of Chicago. Since India does not observe any sort of daylight savings time (there's really no point), Bangalore will be 9 1/2 hours ahead of Detroit and 10 1/2 hours ahead of Chicago after April 3.

That's about all I know about Bangalore at the moment, though I plan on finding out a lot more before I leave. I'm not sure how much free time I'll have outside of boot camp, but I do plan on getting out and about when I can.

Boot Camp is scheduled to run for 16 weeks, starting February 14, 2005. I don't know how solid these dates are, nor do I know what my itinerary is. Yet.

More info to follow. Watch this space.

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Mon, 06 Dec 2004

Job offer accepted
This morning, I accepted an offer of full-time employment from ThoughtWorks, a development/consulting company headquartered here in Chicago. I start on February 7, 2005. I'm really looking forward to working there. If you're interested, you can read more about them at their website.

Although ThoughtWorks has other offices around the country (Nashville, Columbus, San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles) and around the world (Canada, Australia, India, and England), I'll be based out of Chicago. Accepting this job will not necessitate my moving anywhere.

One interesting contingency to my employment is that I will be participating in a boot camp to get me up-to-speed on ThoughtWorks' development process. The boot camp begins on February 14, 2005 and runs sixteen (16) weeks. It will be held at ThoughtWorks' laboratory in Bangalore, India.

That's right: I'm going to be in India for a bit -- which makes this all even more exciting. It's a little longer than I would prefer, but I'll be back in time for most of the baseball season. :)

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