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December 30, 2005
What I love about Berlin
- Children. Lots of children in the streets. These days on sleds. (The lack of children is, btw, one of the reasons I dislike London).
- < EUR 10 meals (food + drink). Factor that by x 2 if you visit Copenhagen.
- Conferences with 16 gbit (gigabit!!) uplinks. Too bad the Wi-Fi network was oversaturated and provided 20 kbit at best, but fortunatly there were plenty ethernet ports all over.
- A city of neighborhoods. With life on street level in housing areas, not just along the main arteries.
- People with an aura of creativity and change, unlike the Danes who are becoming worringly comfortable and self-satisfied with little incentive to change.
- The sound of snow squeeking beneath my boots. (Admitted, time of year dictates that).
- Breakfast at 3 pm, lunch at 8. (Gets me more on schedule with my West coast colleagues).
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December 09, 2005
Ruby, Open Source and O'Reilly in London
(Update2: DavidHH will join us through iChat AV at the LRUG meetup for a chat about Rails.)
(Update: Gavin Bell, Ben Lund, Tony Hammond, Leon Brocard and a few other good people will be joining the LRUG for the meetup or afterwards at the pub. Please join us!)
As Nat so kindly let Radar readers know, I will on behalf of O'Reilly be in London this Wednesday and Thursday (Dec. 14- 15), meeting with emerging tech and open source people.
Robert McKinnon emailed suggesting that I drop by the London Ruby Users Group Wednesday 7 pm meeting for "an informal presentation or two at [his] offices, then go to the pub".
I hope to meet during the daytime with many others, but also I read the invite as open and encourage anyone remotely interested to show up for Robert & co's red-hot Ruby meetup or beer afterwards.
London Ruby Users Group Meetup
When: Wednesday Dec 14, 7 pm
Where: TradingScreen office, 71 Kingsway 4th Floor, London WC2B 6ST
Onto the pub
Around: 8:30 pm
Where: The Shakespeare's Head (JD Wetherspoon), 64-68 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6BG
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