...was so an- und abfällt
The talk will be on Sunday afternoon at 16:40 in room Ferrer and will have a special focus on the UPnP integration in Rhythmbox.
So if you are in Brussels, be sure to drop by and do not miss it. :-)
If you want to meet me, speak about DLNA/UPnP in general, or have a revolutionary idea for Coherence, please ping me on irc.
Details zum äußerst leckeren BlogEat Menü sind - cui honorem, honorem - bei Jan zu finden, hier nur noch ergänzend ein Bild der etwas belebteren Tafel.
PS: Man beachte die Honigkuchenpferde - und das Wort ‘Molukkenrazzia’ war noch nicht einmal gefallen.
The conference will be held in Linz/Austria during the 2nd and 3rd of November.
These are the messages you like to read when browsing your email during breakfast - even coffee tastes much better now. ;-)
First we had Mdm. Tussauds - and yes, despite Ryanair, we made it.
We landed 15:25 in Stansted, probably at the place with the furthest walking distance to the Stansted Express station, where we watched our train leaving at 15:45. The tickets for the house of wax have been valid for 17:00, with half an hour tolerance for entry, and they close a half past six. And the next train was scheduled for 17:03. So counting started again. Three quarters until Liverpool Station, finding a place for the luggage, getting a subway ticket and a tube to Baker Street - a tight schedule.
At Mdm. Tussauds we arrived 10 minutes after five, after I’ve spend £ 13,- at the left-luggage office. I forgot, no lockers anymore, the luggage was even x-rayed. :-/
But we had still plenty of time. Who is Humphrey Bogart or John Wayne? “Dad, lets go to Spiderman, and look, there is Captain Jack Sparrow.” As said before, different priorities. ;-)
After some fast-food in Liverpool Station and picking up our luggage again we arrived finally in our hostel, the Balham Lodge. A bit outside of the city, in the South West of London, but only a 15 minute ride and very reasonable priced. And wifi all over the building [Dad’s priorities 8)].
Next morning, after a plenteous mix of English and Continental breakfast, we headed for more adventures.
The London Eye! If you are into observation wheels it is a must! And even if you are not! And it pays of to buy the tickets in advance. So we even avoided the short queues at the tickets booths. We have been extremely lucky with our tickets at all. No queues, we just walked in at every place.
After the flight with on the Millennium Wheel we took a ride with the boat down the Thames to Tower Bridge and landed at the Tower embankment. There we appraised the Crown Jewels and examined of course every cannon in the armoury in the White Tower. Next we went to the Tower Bridge and the engine rooms there. That machinery making the bride move is still a great piece of engineering art.
Knackered as we were we could only manage a walk-by visit of St. Paul’s and headed back to the hostel and had a great dinner at an Indian restaurant nearby.
For Saturday I had arranged a sightseeing hop-on-hop-off bus tour that brought us around the city. This gave us enough time for Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Picadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, the Horseguards and Westminster Abbey. A police operation blocking a black mini-van the and barricading of the street by armed police men and the following personal search of the occupants and their luggage was the diversion during out our ice cream break at the upper end of St. James. Not that amusing for the people of the car who have been able to continue their journey after whatever that action was. Something similar on our way down Whitehall and the blocking of Bridge Street due to a bomb alarm had already some touch of normality.
Actually there haven’t been any five minutes in the city one hasn’t heard sirens or has seen police cars heading high-speed down the street. It’s thought-provoking.
We ended that day, after a detour at Covent Garden, with a traditional Fish and Chips take away at Fish Central.
In his last year he took a supplementary English class and he learnt a lot about London and the sightseeings there. I thought giving him the chance to see these in real and visit them is a nice reward.
And so we are now today on our trip to London. But unexpectedly stopped at the airport in Frankfurt/Hahn due to delayed Ryanair flight FR755. Instead of leaving at 11:40 new departure is expected to be around 15:00.
Ryanair is btw not providing any water or food to ease the delay a bit. :-(
Anyway, I hope that we depart really at 15:00 as I have prebooked tickets for Mdm. Toussauds in the late afternoon. We could still manage that if we rush from the airport directly to the wax-museum, leaving our luggage at Liverpool station.
Great start for a leisure trip. ;-)
A few days ago I had some time to choose a new dedicated server.
There is a more than two years old Celeron 2.40 GHz with half a GB sitting around, which I currently use to host some smaller projects.
After adding Coherence to them - the UPnP A/V framework in Python I’m working on – it became obvious very quickly that this would overheat that little box.
So I decided to move to a new one, which I tried to order this Thursday afternoon. There was the first hiccup, ordering via the web-interface was impossible, as they have already put up the new offers for 2007, with the one I wanted not being available anymore.
So I had to try phone-support, which was very helpful, competent and irritated about the time-warp in the web-interface too. They adviced me to order via fax which I did during the evening. Only a few hours later I got an email, stating that the server is activated and that I should login to the configuration interface with its hostname and the password defined during the order process.
Hmpf, seems I slipped with my fax order through the meshes.
Sure the configuration interface provides a method to generate a new password, but I need the order number -which I wasn’t informed about yet – and an attached domain – which I wasn’t able to do yet – to activate this.
So I had to file a ticket even before I had any chance to touch that new box.
That’s for today on the topic ‘process optimization’.
