Bustje Kapp'n

Missing half of the conference today: I'm starting to notice that the deal between the conference organization and the hotel was to put all the interesting stuff in the last days... So I'm not particularly getting the feeling that I'm missing anything when I just lock myself up in my hotel room and finish up on a due offer for a customer back home.

Yeah, what a way to spend my birthday, I find some resolution in the notion that getting 33 wasn't exactly an easy year for Jesus either...

Conferencing again

Steven does the Cocoon intro show, and Uche's code sample shows the point I tried to make yersterday about serious XSLT abuse. Quite some app they build with Cocoon there.Adding the fact that I had quite some Cocoon coverage in my pre-conference tutorial on java/xml and oss that makes this conference had quite some Cocoon humming in the corridors...

Lazy Jacek

Bumping into the fill-rouge of this conference, Jacek.

As some (too little) payback for all the fresh thoughts planted by him in my brain yesterday I share to him the utter wisdom my father would always say: (in Dutch first, on special request by Janek)

• Hij die niet ijvert om zijn eigen werk makkelijker te maken, is een luiaard.
• He who is not in pursuit of making his own work more easy, is really lazy.

(-- Gaston Portier, Belgian bus- and tram driver)

So let me make a quality statement on Jacek's skills: lazy to the n'th

Cocoon gettogether

Meeting up with 6 cocooners in the center of London is equal fun as meeting 100 of them in Ghent... Aaargh, we really need to get started on the 2003 edition of the bigger version. Just hoping people in more local areas do this kind of stuff, it's so much more connecting the community to people then to code (Stefano's adagium)