Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

I wandered down to the Louvre last night and took some pictures, but my phone is refusing to speak to my laptop, so here is the Seidenstrasse instead. I am hacking from the amazing Mozilla Paris offices this week, for some reason this is the projects favourite place to meet.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

Time for a quick international measurement tour!

Well no, nothing as cool. I have meeting and a hackathon in Paris this week, then on Friday I am jetting (on a train) up to Brussles for FOSDEM. Travelling gives me a chance to run my network tracing tool from lots of strange places, hopefully strange places reveal strange networks.

Now I am going to have a wander around this city for a bit, before a great day of coding tomorrow.

It is Sunday, so that makes seven days of writing .

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

Something for work meant I had to throw together a DSCP probing tool at the last minute. It still needs lots of work, but I needed to get out today and test on some real networks (just work and my house don't count). If I have to spend a lot of time in cafes, pubs and chains doing measurements from edges I might as well enjoy it.

If I can manage more than a couple of shots like this I can put together an excellent slide when presenting this work.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

I wonder if a CCC style lounge would work as a real club, I guess the status of DNA Lounge indicates it isn't a great proposition. Hacker bars for console jockeys are really appealing, the properties that would make them a nice place to be; not too crowded, room to hack, exclusive, don't really translate to a successful business.

Still, one can dream.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon