Vitanuova for 2003 August

Germany

I'm off to Germany for the Chaos Communication Camp. I'll be back in a week.

Field

I am in a field in Germany. This field has better Internet access than most universities.

I'll try to post some photos tomorrow.

Hooray!

This trip was just wonderful. Perhaps you'd like to look at my pictures.

• Series 1 (flight, Frankfurt, Gießen, Herborn, Greifenstein, trains)
• Series 2 (CCC)
• Series 3 (CCC)
• Series 4 (CCC, Altlandsberg)
• Series 5 (Berlin, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, trains)

I might re-organize these, so I encourage you not to consider these links permanent and not to bookmark them. (If I do re-organize them, I'll provide a new link, which should be more permanent.)

I also have a separate series taken at the House of the Wannsee Conference in Wannsee. Because of the serious subject matter, I want to separate these from my other photos and will post them on a different date and with their own page.

I'm back now, and somewhat jetlagged, and extremely happy to have taken the trip.

Now I've seen everything

I got spam using the word "ichneumon". Of course, I had only ever seen that word one place before:

For he killed the Ichneumon rat very pernicious by land.

I wish spammers were quoting Christopher Smart, but it looks like they're just using word lists to try to trip up Bayesian filters.

Trusted computing

It occurs to me that Dar Williams figured out the problem with remote attestation and interoperability in 1997, in her album End of the Summer:

If I wrote you, if I wrote you,
You would know me
And you would not write me again.

("If I Wrote You")

"It's the end of the summer..."