{"id":5749,"date":"2013-03-12T19:51:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T23:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=5749"},"modified":"2013-03-12T20:05:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T00:05:21","slug":"tuesday-night-more-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/03\/12\/tuesday-night-more-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night – more istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good, long day here.. my talk went ok.. the event was great. Met many nice folks from IBM and our clients. learned quite a lot…<\/p>\n

Wireless is down in the hotel, so I’m doing this over my phone connection.. so gotta be a little short..<\/p>\n

Beautiful spring here… and Attaturk is in bloom everywhere \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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started the day with grape juice\/orange juice mix .. the traditional cohn drink for super strength.. to give me strength for my talk.. it sort of worked.. ;-0<\/p>\n

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the ibm event was GREAT.. over a 1000 folks, mostly clients.. i love talking with them.. listening to them.. the show was kicked off by a band..
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then Isabella, the contry GM gave a good talk.. after her John Pi, then me..
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as I milleed around.. i found several old friends include Jale and her team.
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Reha..<\/p>\n

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and my good friends from Comms..
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I even got to meet Nihal’s husband.. who turns out to be a client of ours !
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after a long day (I worked a good part of it in a quite room i found)\u00a0\u00a0 we went to egap’s place to drop our stuf. Her place has a grat view of the bosphoros and the blue mosque.<\/p>\n

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inside her house where most women would have rock posters or something.. she had.. you guessed it.. Attaturk pictures !!
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we then headed out for the team dinner in the hitoric section.. it was a great meal.. all finger food..<\/p>\n

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Seda and Aytek hamming it up..
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Artul (i can never spell his name.. he’s so awesome) took us on a quick tour of a nearby mosque..
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then back to zegnaps to pick up her stuff.. We met her mom.. She’s a breast cancer survivor and cancer awareness activist for an international cancer advocacy group. She was great to get to know !<\/p>\n

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on the way how, Aytek took us to a Hookah bar… very cool !
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Ellena (from Spain by way of Czech republic) and Scot (from Vermont by way for the Czech Republic) give it a try..<\/p>\n

it was very cool.. tasted like apples !
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ok.. Very late.. and I have tons of stuff to still do.. More tomorrow<\/p>\n

nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

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-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good, long day here.. my talk went ok.. the event was great. Met many nice folks from IBM and our clients. learned quite a lot… Wireless is down in the hotel, so I’m doing this over my phone connection.. so gotta be a little short.. Beautiful spring here… and Attaturk is in bloom everywhere \ud83d\ude42 … Continue reading Tuesday night – more istanbul<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[667],"class_list":["post-5749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-more-istanbul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5751,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions\/5751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}