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Yesterday was the last day of UBZ. It was a lot of fun, and lots of things got specced, ready to implement. And of course we made a group photo:

I've made a lot of pictures (which I can't currently upload, as I have about as much bandwidth as an ISDN link from this place), which I'll upload in the next week, when I get home. Watch the feed for updates!

After a weird day of airplanes and a weird sleeping pattern, everything seems to be back to normal. The washing machine is running at full capacity, the printer has been upgraded—a Postscript-SIMM for my Laserjet 5N arrived during my absence—and all bills have been paid.

I also installed a new shower head (the old one was a solid block of deposited minerals) and a new mirror in my bathroom. The old mirror was a composition of "mirror tiles" so I could never quite see myself without a seam somewhere in the middle, so this gives me a whole new perspective on myself ;)

Also, did you know that pre-assembled 500GB USB-2.0 disks are €200 more expensive than an USB-2.0 case and a separate 500GB IDE disk? For that price difference I'll do the assembly myself (which means I'll have a place to put all of my raw DV video from the end of next week, as both were out of stock today :))

When Mark saw me walking around taking short movies of the people here at UBZ, he asked me to record the lightning talks (we do these every evening) and the morning group sessions.

I have recorded one set of lightning talks, and this morning's morning session. They will be uploaded to Ubuntu servers the moment I finish editing them, so people who can't be here can still get a bit of a taste of what's going on.

Also, the moviegotchi page has an RSS2 feed now (thanks [email protected]). I'm a video podcaster now! Ride the hype! :)

Yesterday spacey and I arrived in Montreal, after a 1-hour flight from Schiphol (Amsterdam) to London Heathrow and a 6-hour flight from there to Montreal.

We met Mithrandir and Simira at Schiphol airport, where they were transferring to a direct plane to Montreal, and we met a LOT of Ubuntu-people while waiting on Heathrow.

Long flights like this are BORING. The first hours are OK, you watch a movie, fiddle aroud a bit with your laptop.. but after that it's just a long wait, and watching the map on the entertainment console doesn't help very much. The boredom was made worse by the fact that I couldn't really sleep, as it was evening in Montreal when we arrived, and I wanted to sleep at the hostel to avoid most of the jet lag ;)

Today is Ubuntu Love Day, with talks from lots of people about lots of things: Kubuntu, Edubuntu, the inner workings of the community, etc. -- I'll post some pictures and "moviegotchis" later.

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

Oh, and DutchTeam member Spacey is coming too.