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February 23, 2007
At FOSDEM this weekend
I'm at FOSDEM this weekend. I'll be giving a talk in the Mozilla developer room today and a second one in the Web track on Sunday.
If you are here please come by and introduce yourself (I look like this).
Whenever I travel to Europe I'm always struck by a few things:
1) Why the heck don't we have high speed trains in the states? The TGV (and Eurostar for that matter) are definitely a better and environmentally cleaner way to travel..
2) Why is internet access so expensive and spotty in hotels? This is true in the states as well - wireless either doesn't exist, is very unreliable, or extremely expensive (usually a combo of the last two) I'm test driving a EDGE/GPRS/UMTS/HSDPA card which might turn out to be *cheaper* (gulp) than wifi in the hotels.
So far it has been working well - performance was blazing at SFO - workable but slow here in Brussels. It has definitely made me appreciate sites like Google that are low bandwidth. We'll see when I get back whether it is worth it or not...
3) Yogurt (all dairy for that matter) always tastes better here. Maybe the lack of pasteurization?
I'm staying in Europe through the next week to meet with a variety of folks (Leiden Monday, London Tues, Warsaw Weds, and Paris Thurs->Fri) - so if you are close to any of those places and want to meet up - please do drop me a line!
Posted by schrep at 5:44 PM | Comments (6)