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Sunday 4 June, 2006 @ 19:11:50 by Cafuego
daily / berlin

After a nine-hour drive from Nijmegen, we arrived in Berlin last friday evening. Some accidents along the way had caused traffic jams. Ugh. We were kept company for some of that by a an Estonian truck, which was moving the DJ Bobo Roadshow :-)

We went by way of Enschede. The center there is unrecognisable now. completely redone. The area that blew up with the fireworks factory 5 or so years back is nearly completely rebuilt. looks all shiny.

For our Australian viewers: along the autobahn there were enourmous windmill-parks and we noticed huge flocks of birds being sucked into them on numerous occasions. The aussie government has made the right decision to not build a wind-farm.

TV TowerBerlin is in the middle of preparations for ther soccer world cup. The center of town has gone mad. Road blocks, large pink soccer balls (yes, they painted a large pink soccer ball on the former eastern TV tower).

Yesterday we had a more or less guided tour by car. Joao took us past the best sights (the museum island, Brandenburg Gate, Eastern Gallery, the embassies, the Reichstag, Unter Den Linden etc). Pretty :-) Had a perv at Einsteins/Schrodingers/Heisenbergs head at the university where they used to study.

We spent the evening planning a revolution, which we will accomplish by throwing bananas at the neo-nazis in a particular suburb here. Or perhaps that was the shiraz talking ;-)

Wednesday 31 May, 2006 @ 20:27:56 by Cafuego
daily / internode

Woo! Did my routine check of the Internet ADSL2+ status page today and noticed that they're (finally) upgrading the North Melbourne exchange.

24000/1000 plan pre-ordered.

Saturday 27 May, 2006 @ 21:00:36 by Cafuego
work / free&open

Arrived in Nijmegen on thursday to stay with my long-time friend Michel for a week or so. He wants to set up a company (sole trader) and get himself organised with a laptop, web site, email etcetera.

Earlier in the week I'd suggested and installed OpenOffice.org on his parents' laptop. They're very happy with it.

Yesterday Michel insisted on having OOo as well. Same with Firfox and Thunderbird. Yay! A new convert! ;-)

Got a domain too and added more free/open goodness in the form of Joomla.

A new happy & satisfied customer, all set up and working for only the price of hardware. On ya.

Wednesday 24 May, 2006 @ 02:48:48 by Cafuego
daily / travelling

Ack! 52KB modem! Short blog!