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So, this year was the first time for me to visit the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. I choose the second day of the event for my event and combined the trip with a visit to my relatives who live in Berlin. Since I consider my interaction with relatives extremely boring I'll just talk about my day at the Congress. I went by train and had to get up early in the morning after getting just three hours of sleep, which wasn't that bad, since i had enough caffein with me. After having a second breakfast at my relatives' place I headed over to Alexanderplatz where the Congress Center is located. Surprisingly I had to wait in line a couple of minutes to get my ticket. After having walked around the whole place failing to find my pals with whom I wanted to meet, I sat down at some round table in the Hackcenter and set up my notebook. As soon as I entered our usual IRC hangout channel, my pals told me they are just few meters away. So I switched places and got a nice seat right in front of a Gigabit-Gateway called "George Bush". There I spend most of the day, except for a quick visit to the mall to get more coke and a "Currywurst". In the evening I heard two interesting lectures, one was about anonymity in the internet and the other one about identity in the real and digital world. There were some more interesting lectures in parallel and on the other days, but luckily you can download recorded streams.
There were also quite a few ftps set up in the local lan containing several terabyte of movies, music and other stuff. I grabbed three seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus from one of them. Actually I'm watching Monty Python while writing this text. It's a nice change to my Daria addiction (a 24/7 stream can be very time consuming).
Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures worth showing to you, but there are plenty of galleries linked in the wiki.