I’m off to Budapest and I’m quite excited. Budapest is one of those cities that sounds famous and exotic. Everyone’s heard of it, but nobody knows anything about it. It’s like Tripoli or Casablanca. Uitfeest was awesome. I’ll post more photos later, but here’s the Float-In Movie. I found it very charming.
Entries from September 15th, 2008
Caving in Budapest
September 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Hungary, Travel
Budapest seems like a really cool city. There’s a lot of pretty architecture and the Danube is beautiful. Unfortunately, my attempt to escape cold, grey, rainy weather has failed. It does rain differently here, though. Whereas the Netherlands was prone to long downpours interspersed with periods of not-rain (I wouldn’t exactly call it ‘dry’ since […]
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At the data retention conference
September 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Hungary, Politics, Technology
My biggest impression so far is that the EU legal and bureaucratic apparatus is positively labyrinthine. I pity the poor internet service providers trying to make sense of ambiguous, poorly written directives. It seems like the EU imposed these requirements without much reflection and with only a very minimal amount of input from the public […]
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Bathing in Budapest
September 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Hacker culture, Hungary, Travel
So the data retention workshop was really cool and interesting. I’ll write more about it later, but I’m pretty tired right now. Most of the conference participants went out to dinner afterwards, at a fairly fancy restaurant. I didn’t have a lot of money, so I basically ordered the cheapest thing on the menu (some […]
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Sorry for not updating
September 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Hungary, Linux, Travel
I’ve actually got a bunch of stuff to write about. Unfortunately, my laptop’s hard drive seems to be in the process of dying a slow, painful death. It tends to flake out completely at inopportune times. During these “bad periods” the BIOS acts like it can’t even find any bootable media, but then it will […]
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