Don’t get me wrong, the Netherlands is awesome, but it’s cold, grey, rainy and depressing here. I’m really looking forward to going someplace with sun. Furthermore, I feel like I’ve been here too long. I’ve gotten to know Utrecht well enough that I can find my way around without a map (at least in the […]
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Budapast Bound
September 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Netherlands, Travel
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.
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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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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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