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I've been meaning to write something here for a while, but you know, life keeps on happening. I was going to announce that I'm going to Sweden, but now I've left Sweden. I was there speaking at Sec-T, got interviewed by the press, and was randomly invited to a rave out in the middle of the woods — but still within public transit access, since this is Sweden after all. (It was basically just like the renegade parties in the bay area if you were wondering.) So, then I took a train from Stockholm to Malmö and crashed with my old friend atavist. We took the bus to Copenhagen (yes, over the sea) and I hopped onto a night train to Leuven, by way of Köln and Liège-Guillemins. On this trip, I've encountered quite a few people who didn't speak English. Switching rapidly between English, Swedish, German, French, and Dutch/Flemish has got me so that I'm totally saying the wrong words whenever I try to speak to someone. (I mean like mixing words and syntax from three languages in the same sentence.)

Friday I presented a seminar at COSIC, and spent most of the day there talking to people. (More news later…) And Saturday I got my breakfast, and lunch at the farmer's market here in Leuven. Then explored the city for a while. (The Fonske statue is missing from the Fochplein!) And I'm about to head to Brussels tomorrow to catch a flight back to Arlanda via Riga - to catch my return flight to the US. I'll be wandering around in the streets of Brussels tomorrow afternoon — it's a no-car-day tomorrow. (Speaking of which, I have not been inside a car since I left California.)

Oh, and I'm also going to be speaking at SecTor in Toronto next month.

Stuff D700, photo, October 2008, Janurary 2009, Berlin, Germany, Brussles, wedding, 25C3, Maastrict, Liege, Further Confusion, furry, Belgium Julia Wolf Julia Wolf image/jpeg 2008 ( Read more... )

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I'm currently typing this post while traveling at 300km/hour! (I'm on a Thalys train.) As an aside, all of the trains here in Europe are spooky-quiet. Like more quiet than my hybrid car. I'm used to BART and Caltrain, which are so loud you can't hold a conversation with the person next to you. Here, I can hear people whispering at the other end of this car.

I'm in Belgium. If you need to contact me in an emergency, my current/temporary cell number is: +32 0487/340.461

I'm sitting at a cafe in Oude Markt, Leuven with maradydd; We're going over to Enschede, NL tonight for a conference. I still haven't gotten my [Cingular] cell phone situation sorted out, so I just got a new phone in Amsterdam. The number, if you need to reach me, is +31 618968301. However, if you call just this second, you won't get me, because I left the phone over in enochsmiles's apartment. I only have about €10 left on the SIM too, so forgive me in advance if I don't want to talk for too long. I should be in Berlin for PH-Neutral by Friday.

I have some interesting comments to make about Marijuana usage, but I don't have time to write them now…