Hard to believe it's been more than a week since I posted on my blog. It's been a fun-filled week; Maj, Amita June and I took a cruise of the Baltic Sea. It was everyone's first cruise, as well as our first time in the area, so we did a lot of travelling -- hitting Lubeck, Visby, Stockholm, Tallinn and Saint Petersburg during the week.
Unfortunately, our onboard Internet connection was neither easy to use, reliable, nor cheap, and our time on land was too short (about 8-10 hours per city) to waste in Internet cafés. I did manage to get wireless in Tallinn, which famously has free municipal WiFi, but otherwise I was stuck with exorbitant satellite-feed access on board our ship. Most of my time online was making sure that Wikitravel wasn't crashed while we were at sea.
(It's my constant fear -- as soon as I get out of range of easy Internet access, I'm sure that either the servers have gone kaput or there's an exploitable bug in the software. Either way, I'm pretty nervous on most trips. Kind of ironic, in a way.)
Suffice it to say that it was really a worthwhile, good time for us. We're back in Copenhagen today. I'm trying to catch up with a couple of Debian developers and NM candidates to exchange OpenPGP key signatures, and trying to plan our scant 23 hours in Zurich starting tomorrow.
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Blogue
My friend Nicolas Ritoux, an Internet and games journalist in Montreal, has a new blog at http://www.vulusu.ca/ . Vu, lu, su means "seen, read, known" in French, and I think it makes a lot of sense for the name of his blogue. He's got a near-comprehensive view of Internet and video gaming culture, and I think that this blog will be a nice addition to his weekly columns in La Presse.