Just sitting in Vienna airport now on my way back from GUADEC 2006. Got some really good and productive hacking done, pimped the Maemo platform from our stand, ate tapas, drank sangria, and drank beer on the Mediterranean, sifting the sand through my fingers before just jumping in. There was also some kind of conference arrangement going on, which was quite good.

Was also great to meet all the crew, old and new, including some of the fellow Nokia crew I met for the first time either in the bungalows or on the stand.

The advantages of being in Catalunya soon became clear as well (if they weren't already), when the bartender started bringing us free drinks -- shots of some kind of something or other which was utterly incredible -- and taking photos of all of us, either because we were buying lots of drinks, because he liked Jono's beard, or because Bastien and one of the VMWare dudes showed up to cheer loudly for France in the soccer, Bastien with his French shirt on. Took a bunch of pictures when I went to Barcelona which I'll upload at some stage; hijacked Ross's DSLR for a while too, and managed to take about two hundred pictures of the same peoples' heads, half of them out of focus.

The food varied from great to gold-plated, diamond-embezzled, awesome, of course. The only real complaint was the absolutely oppressive heat; not even as bad as Melbourne in summer, but still oh-my-god-I'm-dying-how-long-till-I-get-back-to-Helsinki.

Thanks for a fantastic conference, Quim and team!