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Sometimes people forget how easy the command line can be. After watching two colleagues try to get Windows to copy a directory full of files with one extension to another directory with another extension using all kinds of weird add-on tools, I asked them if I could try.

One copy *.ext1 newdir\*.ext2 later, my afternoon was quiet again. For some reason the command-line is considered off-limits by the Windows people I know... does anyone know why?

I've booked my flight and made sure the hostel still had free beds.

Oh, and DutchTeam member Spacey is coming too.

Last Saturday I went to Berlin for a few days, and it was really great. I had to wake up quite early to catch the 7:54 train from Amersfoort, and arrived at my destination at around 13:15. Then I found out that there are 2 near-identical public transport maps: one for the bus/tram network, and another for the S-Bahn/U-Bahn network (and you always end up finding the wrong one first, of course).

After I figured out how the U-bahn worked, I had some beer with dholbach, doko and danielk, and in the next few days did a lot of "tourist" things.

More photos

Too bad my PDA/phone broke, and that some people don't understand the train reservation system (the numbers on your ticket match the numbers on the seats for a reason), but still it was great.

I was in Berlin last weekend, and somehow my Palm Tungsten W (which I also use as a mobile phone) crashed. When I rebooted the device, and tried to re-start the "phone" service, it crashed again. And again. And then it committed suicide and erased everything (calendar data, address book, installed apps, everything).

Today I figured out what the problem was: a text message from some foreign number, but not German, arrived as soon I turned on the "phone" part again when I had re-entered the Netherlands. So for some reason the Tungsten W crashes when it receives a text message from a different country than the one you're roaming in.

I'm switching back to a real phone, not a PDA that tries to be one.

I'll be taking the train to Berlin tomorrow morning at 6:53 for a few days of vacation. If anyone has good ideas about what I should see/do, please leave a comment ("having beer with \sh and dholbach" is already planned ;))