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My second day in Dublin, and I’m starting to get into the swing of things. The last two days have been a whirlwind of meeting people, seeing places, and arguing with the damn airline about my lost baggage that they still have not located.

It’s been really great to finally see people whom I’ve thought of as close friends for the last two years, although it’s disconcerting how many people recognise me when I don’t recognise them. KDE.nl guys obviously need to put more pictures of themselves online in particular!

I have already spent an insane amount of money on KDE merchandise, although I resisted the temptation to bring Konqi home with me. I shudder to think how much it would cost to ship him back to New Zealand.

Last night after dinner a group of us sauntered out in search of trouble and I had an absolute ball. Aaron and Mara were absolutely electric on the dancefloor and we found quite a few great irish pubs. I finally ended up falling into bed close to 4am.
Many people have said that KDE has some of open source’s best looking developers. Now I’ve met so many of the guys in person, I can definitely concur:

I also have some contenders for ‘KDE’s cutest couple’.

More serious press related blogging to follow when I am not hungover.

Oh, and I’m not the only person blogging from actually within a talk - I just glanced over to see Rainer also writing a post. Also in wordpress. Hosted on the same server.