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Euro OSCON day -1

I take a short flight from London Heathrow to Amsterdam, sharing the cab to the airport with clkao. Arriving into luggage chaos at Amsterdam and then a fairly expensive cab ride to the NH City Center where my key is waiting.

I don't actually know where anyone else, and I don't have a cellphone to contact people, so I sync up quickly with my friends who live outside of Amsterdam, and then head over to the conference hotel, another NH hotel.

At the registration desk I meet Gina again, we chat a bit about Amsterdam and Europe vs the US. Then I head up to the speaker lounge and get registered and say hi to Vee.

In the lobby I find a certain Larry Wall circling around and decide together with Gina to go out for dinner, we end up in Oriental City where I've had dim sum earlier. Just coming from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, the food wasn't as exciting but nevertheless it was good, and the company was excellent.

And oddity I did mention is that they use portable two way radios, which I find hilarious. We gave those up 15 years ago and actually use cellphones. Even the military mostly uses cellphones and text messaging these days!

Went to bed early.

Cheers
Artur

From 11887m above the Sea

Currently I am one hour from Singapore, cruising at 990 km/h at a high altitude of 11887m above the sea. We are slightly north of Langkawi.

This internet on board thing is working really well, except for the lag makes it impossible to play World of Warcraft!

Cheers
Artur

WSFII Day one

Arrived at WSFII at 1 o clock, 3 hours after opening and two hours after the first session started, it is still going so I don't know how much opened.

The session is on open community wifi network, it is a bunch of people on the panel and it is interesting to listen to how they build open wifi networks all around the world.

Now Dave Green of NTK is moderating a hackers session, the first panel presenter is a presentation of MythTV, an opensource PVR. Personally PVRs aren't very interesting since I don't watch TV and Bittorrent has replaced everything for me. It does seem quite neat though, comparison to TIVO and how they are restricting more and more and this is why we need open pvrs. Fairly boring discussion about the benefits of opensource.

Ok, off to the hallway to discuss various hardware things and explain werewolf, going to try and get a werewolf round going later.

Now someone is talking about linux on an ipod, all very good I guess but not my area of interest, frankly I am tired of all low level tinkering! Oh well, off to the hallway sessions.

A month of slacking.

It is now a month since I left Fotango and I have been quite busy packing up my life. Half of it is in storage with Bishops Move which did a fantastic job organising this last minute move, the other was sent back to Sweden or given away.

Last Saturday we had a fantastic party at my near empty place and we moved out on Sunday, a night sleeping in a sofa bed and then in the early morning I was off to Krakow to spend time with brother.

Krakow was absolutely fantastic and I sure want to go back, it was full of clubs, students and cheap food, the old town and the old jewish quarters are really amazing.

After 5 days of slacking in Krakow I flew back to London to spend some time at