14 hours of sleep, I feel like I have woken up in another dimension.
There is a ton of congress stuff floating around twitter, Here is a list of talks ranked from the number of tweets and retweets mentioning them. If you are only going to watch a couple of sessions from 33c3 that list is probably great.
I caught an awesome article classifying the MacOS malware found in 2016. I am glad there is so little malware aimed at this platform.
Reading: Nemesis Games
I was hoping to write the first blog post of this year from the airport, but time conspired against me. With BA moving my flight 24 hours I had to decided between having a quiet New Year and a fun one.
I certainly did not go to 'There is No Party' which was not held somewhere in HH. The music was excellent, the crew that did the lighting and audio did amazing work. It makes me wonder what could happen here if there was space where people could play.
From the party I headed back to the apartment, packed and set off for the airport. I turned a long day with a weird sense of time into an adventure across Hamburg at New Year and through the Airport.
By the time I made Heathrow I was on about 4 hours sleep in a 36 hour window, I opted to nap instead of writing..
It is Sunday, so that makes seven days of writing .
Reading: Nemesis Games
HAM->LHR->ABZ
An abundance of particles in the air forced BA to cancel my flights home. They knocked my flight back 24 hours without any choice in the timing of my new flight. This means I get to spend an extra night in Hamburg and I get to move all of my new year plans to somewhere in the future.
Congress is done for another year, it has been any amazing event. There really is nothing like it on the planet, attempts at describing the event and conveying that different world always seem to fail.
The Chaos Communication Congress really is a place that must be seen, with the CCH being knocked down next year the event you go to will certainly be materially different that the one I have attended for the past three years.
I cannot wait to see how the deal with loosing the CCH and where CCC ends up in the future.
Reading: PO-14 User Manual
Presented with out comment are the books I read in 2016, ordered with the most recently read first:
* All Tomorrow's Parties
* Idoru
* Virtual Light
* Excession
* Cibola Burn
* Reamde
* Abandon's Gate
* Seveneves
* ELEKTROGRAD
* Ashes of Victory
* Little Brother
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 3
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 2
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 1
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 10
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 9
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 8
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 7
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 6
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 5
* Transmetropolitan Book Vol 4
* The Cuckoos Egg
* Networks of New York
* Hydrogen Sonata
* Surface Detail
* Matter
* Look to Windward
* Inversions
* Use of Weapons
* The Player of Games
* Consider Phlebaa
* The Man in the High Castle
* Overtime
* Eqoid
* Down on the Farm
* Neuromancer
* The Soul of a New Machine
* The Wise Man's Fear
* Name of the Wind
* Zero History
* Spook Country
* The Atrocity Archives
* The Fuller Memorandum
* The Jennifer Morgue
* The Apocalypse Codex
* The Annihilation Score
* The Rhesus Chart
* The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
* Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
* Titus Groan
* Next Stop Execution
* Mona Lisa Overdrive
* Pattern Recognition
* Gormenghast
* Cunning Plans
* Tubes
Day 4 is the sad day, at a certain time this evening a switch will flip, everyone will stop what they are doing and start packing up. Right away the hackcenter will go from being another world back to a boring hall.
Reading: Fahrplan