Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Hansestadt Hamburg
Another flip - this time to Hamburg. Not even 10 years since I was here last, but certainly several lifetimes ago... Early 'training' in Munich allows me to explain why Weissbier is so called (and its not because its (not) white...). Did it always taste of bananas? Meet up with SMNP - not a new protocol or a typo but an old school friend from 'Hogwarts', with whom I went Interrailing, ending up in Zurich, eating Spago for the first time, after a small 'disaster' in Italy... Forgot to ask if he remembered Hagrid...
First visit here was at the time of the 1980 CERN School of Physics in Malente. For some reason, we were desperate to get a computer account here - on the striking red IBM mainframe - but this was only possible on Thursdays, in the afternoon.
Many visits since - particularly in the 'years of Fat', and early ODBMS days.
So everything seems related to everything else, max two hops away?
First visit here was at the time of the 1980 CERN School of Physics in Malente. For some reason, we were desperate to get a computer account here - on the striking red IBM mainframe - but this was only possible on Thursdays, in the afternoon.
Many visits since - particularly in the 'years of Fat', and early ODBMS days.
So everything seems related to everything else, max two hops away?
