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Yup, it somehow looks like a famous Green Day song…

Akademy has come and passed
Ten days has gone so fast
Wake me up when october ends

Back in office again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my work again
Becoming who we are

As my memory rests
But never forgets what I lost
Wake me up when october ends

Akademy has come and passed
Ten days has gone so fast
Wake me up when october ends
Wake me up when october ends
Wake me up when october ends

This lame attempt at borrowing a song lyrics for my own blog comes from the fact that october is exhausting here… I’ve basically been unable to do anything useful in the free software land since the end of aKademy. Too much work both on the research and teaching front. But it seems I survived once again.

Hopefully starting this week-end my schedule will slowly come back to it’s normal state, so I’ll have some spare time to spend. I already sent a bunch of patches for HAL and committed some code into Solid. It feels good to be able to work on this again!

Today I received this:

Thank you Google.

I’m glad this t-shirt arrived safely, since I never received the 2005 edition… That said I prefer the logo of this year t-shirt. That’s always a good thing to get one more geek t-shirt in your collection.

I’m now back home for a few hours already. This week was great, but it always feel good to be at home. Moreover I had a very nice woman waiting for me at the airport, great motivation to come back.

This year aKademy was really great, I really enjoyed being there. I’d like to thanks (in no particular order):

• Marcus Furlong, for being insane enough to organize aKademy;
• Tink Bastian, who put a lot of work to make this event a success;
• The sponsors, for helping to make it happen;
• Peter Simonsson, for being such a nice guy;
• Aaron Seigo, for his craziness;
• Sebastian Klüger, for his ability to kick asses;
• Adriaan de Groot, for the room sharing;
• David Faure, for his wisdom;
• Pradeepto Bhattacharya, for his sympathy and compassion;
• Will Stephenson, because he rocks;
• Kenneth Wimer, for being Kenneth Wimer (it’s always a pleasure to meet you);
• Michaël Larouche, for wearing Iron Maiden T-Shirts (damn, I should have taken mines :-p);
• Jonathan Riddell, for being the best minutes writer in the world;
• The attendance and the speakers, because they’re the ones who make aKademy such a precious event;
• The whole community, I’m really proud to have the privilege to work with so brilliant people.

I’m looking forward to meet all of you again!