Archive for October 18th, 2005

Posted on October 18, 2005 - by jono

EuroOSCON

Currently over at EuroOSCON in Amsterdam. I had a beast of a trip getting over here. I missed my alarm for 3am to get over to the airport for 5am. Missed my flight at 6.10am, so headed to the airport and arrived at…6.10am. Booked onto the 8.10am flight which was then delayed by a couple of hours. Finally got over to Amsterdam, and while clenching certain unmentionable parts of my ass with the need to drop some friends off at the pool, I waddled around Amsterdam trying to find the hotel. Found the hotel, defecated and then run the conference. Phew!

The conference is interesting, and I saw a great talk about hardware hacking which has got me really excited – tomorrow there is also a talk about hacking the PSP. Tonight I went to dinner with jdub, kNo, Treenaks, Paul and a few others. It was fun, ate some odd pancakes, drunk some beer and I am now back at the hotel with its complementary wireless access. Nice one there.

Good to see some familiar faces at the conference such as Nat Torkington, Simon Willison, Bruno Bord, Jack Janssen, Gervase Markham, Dean from GLLUG, Josette from O’Reilly, Jeff Waugh and some others.

All in all – running pretty smoothly so far.