Published on August 28, 2007
in general.
Just got through a nice series of trials until I managed to write a small howto on how to get your GPRS Orange phone to allow you to connect to the Internet using Linux (which is very convenient, since Orange UK has got nice pay-as-you-go data plans, including one day of unlimited acces for 1 quid… and more importantly because I don’t have connection at home! ;P)
However, this also made evident I don’t have proper ways of publishing articles and other stuff as part of the blog… damn!
Ok, I promise to spend some time refurbishing the website during next week! (You can repeteadly hit me with a copy of “Code Complete, 2nd Edition” if I don’t!)
No change of opinion, this thing has been fantastic! To our list of things we’ve done I have to add:
- Attend talks on GNURadio, GSM sniffers, RFID attacks, WEP cracking in 30 seconds, hardware hacks and how to modify your brainwave patterns to achieve states of relaxation using some nice electronic circuits (as seen on MAKE!)
- Learnt how to pick locks (and spent the rest of the camp trying it on every lock I found! }:D)
- Enjoy those nightly performances with music, lights, fire and several dozens of people (me included) banging savagely and discordantly on metal objects with sticks
Truly the best combination of technology, science, art, beauty and fun I’ve seen… no wonder people were clapping and cheering to the organizing team for more than 10 minutes in the closing ceremony!
I’l try to post some of our photos (as soon as I get them from Andre and Palako) and select some from Flickr for public perusal!
Sadly, the next edition is due in 4 years but… Next date: What The Hack in Holland, in two years’ time! Anybody wants to join? 
Keeping it short and sweet: judging by these 2 days, this is THE MOST AMAZING event I’ve ever been to!
Sincerely, I lack words to explain how cool this is and all the stuff that is going on. So far we have:
- Had a really cool (though slightly accidented) trip, you can actually check our traced route map (thanks to TomTom and Tripmaster)
- Got to camp in one of the most.. mmmm… eccentric and diverse camps I’ve ever seen. If you don’t believe me, check the photos
- Went to talks on OpenBeacon, GPS Trackers, alternative games and C++
- Got kidnapped, became an angel, learned how to do spraypaint posters
- Watched a really cool nerdcore concert by Dualcore, after which the guys came to chat with us and we got autographed versions of their discography (the two CDs };D)
- And in general, experienced the bliss of being in such a beautiful area surrounded by the geeky and arty panorama that only the mix of leds and lasers, antennas and tents, old fight planes and giant petri dishes with fluorescent algi can offer.
I’ve decided I should be coming to any future edition of this thing… and you should do the same!
