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Berlin is slow, very slow but steady... I had two great weeks of creative holiday, visiting friends & collaborative coders; been hanging out online in the [[http://goerlitzer-park.de|Görlitzer park]] and read «Robinson Crusoe» during never-ending subway trips.

Most of the Prenzlauer Berg has been taken over by pay-wifi providers, not to mention the tourist commerce. Yet I found the Schleussenkrug in the Tiergarten to be a very comfy place for breakfast and reading email in the sun. Since I was mostly offline during my stay I've postponed the [[wiki:dokupubsub|dokwiki pubsub]] and [[linux_sound_tags]] projects.

However I've updated [[http://liboauth.sf.net/|liboauth]] which bumped into [[http://liboauth.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/liboauth/trunk/ChangeLog?revision=HEAD&view=markup|0.3.3]] and I'm making progress on the ardour [[wiki:ics|image compositor]] software - currently patching [[http://ardour.org|ardour]] adding a //video-route// instead of re-using [[http://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=2364|route-ui]]. I'm beginning to loosing track of all the projects but I've also added a jack-audio port to [[http://git.dyne.org/?r=freej|freeJ]] that I'm gonna link to the A/V decoder back-end during the next weeks. 

Besides, the whole field-trip exercise was to gain energy for the [[http://mediamatic.net/hackerscamp|Hacker Camp]] at the [[http://picnicnetwork.org|picnic-conference]] starting this Friday. Even though it may not sound very relaxing, it worked out very well. Breaking a few habits does magic from time to time as does Berlin.

I had an unforgettable weekend trip to Rostock - my first time at the ost-see, and I've re-visited the Beelitz Heilstädten where we shot [[http://marzipanmovie.com|marzipan movie]] three years ago. The place is still stunning: roof-top forests, gymnasium ruins and never ending tunnels. [[http://on-signal.org|Arjan]] has taken a few pictures of me there featuring my new Berlin short-hair cut.

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