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Home At Last

Juli 13, 09 //
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Three weeks of travel are finally over. I enjoyed most of it but it took it’s toll. One of the reasons I didn’t feel the summit was as successful for me personally than it could have been.

During the four days in Berlin I spent mostly in the halls of LinuxTag, I had the energy and ease to walk around and talk to people although the preparation of the whole event had taken quite some effort from my side. Luckily, all went smoothly, including our Friends of Qt dinner. It was unfortunate that it collided with the Social Event the LinuxTag organized, but I could no longer wait for the date at one point and had to fix the restaurant. (weiterlesen…)

You know you travel too much if …

Juni 22, 09 //
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Airbus A330-200

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… the driver recognizes you when you get onto the bus to your local airport.

… you don’t even look up the number of the check-in counter anymore.

… you have all your make-up in a little bag you don’t even unpack anymore.

… you have various cosmetic products that are labeled in foreign languages.

… you find yourself postponing the visit to the duty free shop because you will visit a bigger or better one soon.

… you know how to say “To the airport, please” in at least one more language than you actually speak.

… you regularly schedule tasks for the time on a plane.

… you always carry your passport in your bag.

… you seriously consider buying a share of your favourite airline that doesn’t have a frequent traveler programme.

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On The Road Again

März 31, 09 //
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Thanks to the German Bahn, I gained an hour offline in a train. All my tasks I could finish without the internet are done now, so I thought to myself I could as well blog something.

I squeezed myself into the ICE to Basel SBB with a incredibly heavy suitcase, a backpack, a cardboard roll holding posters and my handbag. A whole hour later than planned because of severe stupidness on my side. This turned out to be extra annoying when shortly before Siegburg the train stopped before a no longer working switch. We had to travel back nearly all the way to Cologne main station and slowly. Hence the gained hour.

I am on my way to attend the OpenExpo in Bern where I will give a presentation and back up Luca and Eckhart at the KDE booth. Claudia sent me the posters and some T-shirts and thanks to a quick reaction from Novell I now have 200 something openSUSE DVDs in my small suitcase. The latter gives me funny looks since a suitcase of that size is not expected to be heavy. Believe me – this one is!

I am looking forward to put on my KDE hat again and meet with all the nice Swiss FOSS folks in Bern tomorrow. But first I want food and a bed.

The initial train by the way actually never made it to Basel and my extra hour quickly evolved into one and a half hours but that’s another story.