Irish street art
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Dublin has proven to be a very strange place. Because of the immense golfing event taking place over the weekend, the only accomodation I’ve been able to find was a rather lousy hostel run by a group of Polish people and, apparently, mostly inhabited by young Polish people seeking easy employment in one of the [...]
I have arrived safely in Dublin’s fair city, and have found it harder than expected to find decent lodgings, due to the huge crowds drawn to some sporting event taking place outside of town. But I’ve found a modest hostel dorm bed, and are now waiting for the registration to begin for the aKademy conference [...]
From the Nazi rallying grounds in Nürnberg: From the “Street of Human Rights” outside of the Germanic Museum, also in Nürnberg: A tree rather than a column: (Meant to signify all the world’s language that couldn’t be represented on the columns) What the former nazi rally grounds look like today: (more comparisons of then and [...]
(07.06 Sunday morning. The first rays of grey morning light find their way through the curtains in a 12-man dormitory room. The door opens. In comes a young man, wobbily walking to the far end of the room where a bunk bed is located. He bends over the lower bunk and speaks in a tired, [...]
I spent last Saturday night hanging out at a local hostel in Munich, drinking a few beers with random people. I talked a bit a group of three American guys who, as it happened, were soldiers on leave from the American army base in Schweinfurt. Though they were on leave, they had violated the rules [...]
I write this in a youth hostel in Munich. I’ve just come back from a Munich suburb where I have spent two days with Sebastian, a German Ubuntu developer, talking about computers, the Ubuntu community, interaction design and much, much more. Sebastian lives along the railway line between Munich and Dachau, the village now mostly [...]
Late yesterday evening I arrived in Wiesbaden near Frankfurt am Main for the Ubuntu Developers’ Sprint. The sprint started this morning, and it is the big halfway point of the Edgy Eft release cycle. All of the Canonical-employed Ubuntu developers are gathered to recalibrate their efforts and coordinate the specifications that were approved in Paris. [...]
I arrived back in Copenhagen late last night on delayed flight from Barcelona and the 2006 version of the GUADEC conference. Actually, the conference took place in Vilanova i la Geltrú, 45 km south of Barcelona. The GUADEC (GNOME Users and Developers European Conference) and GNOME, for the uninitiated is the acronym for “GNU Network [...]
Having tried different budget airlines over the past few weeks, I’m appalled at how tacky they have become. On Ryanair flights, they will blare advertisements over the loudspeakers before take-off, before attempting to sell you all kinds of crap during the flight. On Sterling flights, they not only try to sell you the usual fare [...]