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Heathrow
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The "Entertainment" district just out the back of the conference
hotel
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... seems mainly to provide window shopping
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... for tourists
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Yes, some houses are crooked
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... to the point of being bent
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Sunday morning market, flowers, but no tulips
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... just tulip bulbs
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... and wooden flowers for tourists to take home
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No, I didn't buy any
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Canals everywhere you turn
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And some very old houses. Where were you in 1696 when this one
was being built?
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Ok, so I have a soft spot for houses that lean on each other
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... or get held up by each other
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... or attempt to push each other over
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Yes Justin, Amsterdam is a port
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And has all the facilities of Hong Kong
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More nursery-rhyme crookedness
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No buildings in Australia — at all! — 401 years ago
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Keith van Rijsbergen
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Gord Cormack, Edie Rasmussen, Justin Zobel
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... on the way to the Past Chairs dinner
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Charlie Clarke, Keith, Mark Sanderson, Mun-Kew Leong
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Tat-Seng Chua, Efthi Efthimiadis, Wessel Kraaij (Co-Chair)
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Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat
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Past Chairs dinner, Indonesion delicacies
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... that generate volcanic internal heat (Arjen de Vries, Co-Chair)
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Wessel Kraaij also sweats it out
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Gord solves the heat
problem by holding (as always) two wine glasses
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... and Ricardo Baeza-Yates needs three to stay cool
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Out the hotel room window, early in the morning
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The Melbourne (and RMIT) gang:
Laurence Park, William Webber,
Yohannes Tsegay,
Milad Shokouhi, Vo Ngoc Anh
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... and Alistair's turn to join in
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William Webber and Vo Ngoc Anh; yet another canal scene
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Ok, so no canal in shot, but there will be one not far away, for sure
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Conference banquet: Laurence Park, Yuye Zhang, William Webber, Vo Ngoc Anh
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Conference banquet
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Dave Hawking still likes his SIGIR'98 bag
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Efthi (Chair, SIGIR'06), and the "SIGIR Trophy",
Jamie Thom in behind
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Justin Zobel and Alistair, and the SIGIR trophy that didn't exist in 1998
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The musical and performance theme was of tango
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... and Efthi got in to the spirit (well, kind of reluctantly)
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Arjen speaks
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... and speaks
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Liz Liddy, SIGIR President
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Efthi hands over the trophy
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Djoerd Hiemstra relates some SIGIR facts and figures
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... in a tag-team act with Franciska de Jong
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The conference hotel
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... on Dam Square
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... with its many attractions
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.. and nearby bridges (how else do you cross canals?)
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De Waag, the famous public weighing house,
constructed from 1488,
details
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Look at the upper windows in the central house, where is the roof?
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The Melbourne/RMIT people, minus Justin
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... enjoy a post-conference beer (Anh Ngoc Vo and William Webber)
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... that pours cleanly (William)
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... and pours sweetly (Jamie Thom)
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... and tastes really really good
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Departure from Schipol on the way back to London and home
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