title	A Trip to San Diego, California, USA - 11th January 2005
intro	It's the first trip to Qualcomm - the company that just bought start-up Trigenix - and its headquarters in San Diego, via Virgin Upper Class, stretch limos, champagne and massages on the plane. After a couple of days stuck mostly in windowless conference rooms, it's good to get out on a Saturday and explore outside for a bit. By handy coincidence of timing, we're there for both the Martin Luther King parade and the San Diego Multicultural day, and the weather had significantly picked up from the week before our visit, which had seen more rain in a few days than the usual monthly average, with some heavy landslides further up the coast.
imgp2228	Nosher in the home office
imgp2360	John Scott in the back of a stretch limo
imgp2362	The view from the hotel window
imgp2364	Rusty and John roam around
imgp2365	It's our first drive around the local area
imgp2366	The Star of India restaurant
imgp2367	Russell gets some orange juice for breakfast
imgp2370	We find the entrance to head office
imgp2373	Qualcomm's Building R
imgp2375	Building Q, across the parking lot
imgp2376	The Qualcomm sign
imgp2377	The lobby of Building R
imgp2379	A banner dangles in an atrium
imgp2380	A street in La Jolla
imgp2383	John, Brian Dunphy and Sang
imgp2390	The gang in George's at the Cove, La Jolla
imgp2391	The red wine on the table was about $200 a bottle
imgp2392_01	We prepare for our first presentation
imgp2393	A massive screen awaits
imgp2395	Rusty and a local contact in a Del Mar restaurant
imgp2396	More food and networking
imgp2397	Russell points at his food
imgp2399	There's a fancy Rolls-Royce outside the hotel
imgp2400	A funky flower
imgp2404	The Marriott Del Mar's swimming pool
imgp2406	A line of pool chairs
imgp2408	A bunch of Harley boys out for a ride down the I-5
imgp2411	Russell points to something extreme on the menu
imgp2415	The Broken Yoke on Garnet claims "we've got huevos"
imgp2416	John orders something
imgp2417	John has a 4-egg omlette. 12-egg was an option
imgp2418	Russell and his pile of food
imgp2419	US newspaper boxes
imgp2420	Garnet Avenue
imgp2424	A teeshirt seller
imgp2426	A San Diego fire department truck
imgp2427	John roams arouns
imgp2430	A kite flyer in Marina Park
imgp2435	We check the map out
imgp2439	The quaint, but perhaps obviously-named Pier café
imgp2442	A fishing boat and water taxi
imgp2443	Russell scopes out some paintings
imgp2508	A San Diego war memorial
imgp2509	Some cyclists raise money for leukaemia research
imgp2513	The USS Midway, with the Nimitz in the background
imgp2544	Fiddling with knobs in the weapons control room
imgp2547	A view of San Diego and the Manchester Grand Hyatt
imgp2548	Russell has a break
imgp2550	A C-1 "Trader" aircraft, number 700
imgp2551	Old Glory and downtown San Diego
imgp2552	Russell tests out a small missile
imgp2554	An F-4S Phantom II
imgp2555	The carrier's "island" command-and-control centre
imgp2557	A group of Marines tell Midway service stories
imgp2563	A former crewman of the Midway
imgp2564	Another crew member shows us some stuff
imgp2566	The sailing ship Star of India
imgp2569	A giant ship's screw
imgp2571	A 1930 San Diego administrative building
imgp2572	Paying for parking, as a plane comes in to land
imgp2574	The Pickwick Hotel, in the Gaslamp district
imgp2580	An unexpected ice rink
imgp2581	Kids are ice skating in California
imgp2585	Down in the Gaslamp district
imgp2587	We find a sports bar with its own brewery
imgp2593	Sports bar life
imgp2594	A nice motorbike
imgp2597	A clock on the wall
imgp2598	The old Balboa cinema
imgp2602	Some sort of sculpture down by the Convention Center
imgp2605	Tall buildings
imgp2608	Russell gets a Mariachi band to stop for a photo
imgp2612	A Maori hakka at the San Diego multicultural event
imgp2613	Dog in a bag
imgp2618	A flame thrower
imgp2633	Some sort of Hawai'ian dancing
imgp2636	A green-ringed building
imgp2638	Streetlife near the Marriott
imgp2710	An old car trundles down Pacific Coast Highway 101
imgp2712	Rusty and John look over the cliff
imgp2714	A view of the sea near Torrey Pines
imgp2715	A lone walker on the beach
imgp2719	John and Russell
imgp2722	A prickly pear looks like a certain litigious mouse
imgp2734	John's on the phone
imgp2738	We cross a branch line railway track
imgp2740	A surfer on the beach
imgp2744	The sea laps at the shore
imgp2753	Russell waves his arms around