Palfrey's life

For the interested, I've *finally* got around to putting up my FOSDEM photos (see geeks doing geeky things), and since it's been snowing for the past week, I've put up a few photos I've taken around here as well, but those could be better labelled as "palfrey messes around with camera settings and what can be retrieved from a photo taken in low-light without using a decent exposure, but with the aid of a good photo-manipulation program". There's also an entry that I meant to post at FOSDEM re: what happened on the rest of day 2, and I think it's still worth it, but I need to get around to re-retrieving it off my laptop, as I've just managed to wipe one of the copies of it *again*.

Finally got around to going to Koornbeurs with some people. For the Bristol folk, think the Mandrake, but about half the size. For everyone else, think low ceilings (worse so for the tall Dutch folk), and a combination of punk, thrash metal and "Nellie the Elephant" (I swear on several variously important things they played this and there were people excitedly dancing to it). Also, ran into an Australian (now living in Den Haag) named Paul that I'd met at FOSDEM last week. Was pretty easy to spot, as he was wearing a Debian t-shirt in the middle of this place. 'twas a lot of fun. I considered writing a little rant on the nature of meeting people in clubs (having spotted a cute, glasses-wearing blond, very-much-single girl, and failing miserably to say a darn thing, even when her group moved right next to me, and having had a talk about these things with Piotr afterwards), but that appears to have burnt out by this morning (partly because I realised that a significant block of the attraction was due to certain well-documented preferences of mine, as opposed to the whole double-standards of spotting cute women vs. my own dislike of dressing up even slightly). *shrug*. We're kinda planning on going out in Leiden next weekend, with the attendant medical school and skewed male/female ratios therein (think technical courses i.e. the whole of darn Delft, but the opposite way around), so I may well have to see what I can do about my confidence before then.