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+The story continues at [[Blog/2008/November]].
+
+== Bernie's brain backup of October 2008 ==
+
+=== Fri, 31st October - Ties ===
+
+Met my old buddy Ties on Jabber and he pointed me at a few nice photos from his Flickr
+photostream:
+
+ * http://flickr.com/photos/80049722@N00/2848749676/sizes/o/in/set-72157607884586577/
+ * http://flickr.com/photos/80049722@N00/2749741413/in/set-72157607884586577/
+
+=== Fri, 31st October - Critical Mass ===
+
+{{CriticalMass.jpg | The Boston Critical Mass (stock photo)}}
+
+A few friends from 1CC invited me to this subversive event called the
+[[http://bostoncriticalmass.org/|Critical Mass]].  I used the complimentary Acetarium bicycle.
+
+While our group of 200+ bikes was riding on a roadway, we went into a road block.  They knocked
+down a couple of bikers and tried to stop others.  I also ran into a young cop who had the bad
+idea of walking to the middle of the road.
+
+It was a lot of fun :-)
+
+=== Tue, 28th October - Daneel and Giskard ==
+
+{{Daneel.jpg|Daneel, my faithful Apple iBook}}
+
+My old PowerPC iBook served me well for over 5 years, accompanied me around the
+world twice or so, carrying three Linux distros on the same hard drive.  Not to
+mention all the stickers, which conferred it great hacker value.  One month ago,
+the integrated ATI GPU broke beyond any possibility of repair.
+
+Such a great loss had to be compensated with something at least half as cool.
+I chose a lightweight Lenovo Thinkpad X200s, with a LED backlit 12" display, a
+low-voltage U9300 processor and **no** stupid CD reader or writer.
+
+Today my package was delivered home and I installed Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid, just
+one day before the official release.
+
+{{http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/2932872936_c7a3b17a95.jpg | Giskard, my new Lenovo Thinkpad X200s}}
+
+=== Mon, 27th October - Embedded Systems Conference Boston ===
+
+{{http://beagleboard.org/static/images/beagle-home-promo-left-2008-07-01.jpg | the awesome Beagle Board}}
+
+Today I gave a talk about porting Sugar to the [[http://www.digikey.com/beagleboard|Beagle Board]],
+a nice development system for Texas Instrument's OMAP3530 processor.
+
+Slides here: [[http://www.codewiz.org/pub/olpc/slides/SugarBeagle.odp]]
+
+Details of the talk here: [[https://www.cmpevents.com/ESCe08/a.asp?option=G&V=3&id=625476]]
+
+=== Tue, 21st October - Back to Boston ===
+
+{{BostonSkyline.jpg|Cambdrige (left shore) and Boston (right shore) - stock photo}}
+
+I have greatly missed this place ever since I had to leave earlier this year.  My visa
+is still a temporary B-1, which means I'll have to leave within 3 months.  During this
+time, I'm planning to give a talk, finally nail down the SugarLabs server infrastructure
+and meet with the OLPC folks to discuss common goals.
+
+I'll be staying at the [[http://www.acetarium.com/ | Acetarium]], the most exclusive
+hacker accomodation in Cambridge.
+
+=== Fri, 10th October - ENEA research center ===
+
+Me and my uber-geeky Italian friends went to visit the ENEA Research Center on the Brasimone
+lake in Emilia Romagna.
+
+ [[http://www.brasimone.enea.it/]]
+
+{{Pictures/vacation/brasimone_2008/P1010025.JPG|A researcher showing us the test fusion reactors|maxwidth=640}}
+
+The center is located inside a dismissed nuclear plant, quite a suggestive setting for a lab researching
+fourth-generation fission reactors and even nuclear fusion for the [[http://www.iter.org/ | ITER]]
+international effort.
+
+Enjoy all the photos by asterix: [[Pictures/vacation/brasimone_2008]]