General

So, I'm back from Anif, at least for this week. Tomorrow I'm going to take the train to Vienna, to visit the last day of the Linuxwochen there. I will do my last lecture there (well, the last one for this Linuxwochen season).


Anyway, Anif is a really small town with really nothing (or almost nothing) inside and around. I lived in a small hotel, which was quite OK (I especially enjoyed the breakfast, fresh croissants are a really nice thing in the morning). And the minibar was included, that means I didn't have to pay anything extra.


At Sony, where I work, there's a really nice kitchen, with great food for only little money (e.g. today two big pieces of fried Leberkäse with french fries and a small salad for EUR 2,76). And today, I used the chance to buy some stuff in a Sony-DADC-internal store where they sell the stuff they produce to all the employees for really nice prices. I, for one, bought a Pearl Jam live CD (actually 3 CDs) for as much as EUR 3,60 (price at Amazon: EUR 16,99), and a colleague bought some really new computer game for Playstation 2 (quote: "that game is already published?!") for as much as EUR 17 (price at Amazon: EUR 39,99). That is really neat, and I'm looking forward to the next Friday, where I will hopefully have more money with me.


Besides eating and shopping at Sony, I didn't really do a lot, except for going to a meeting, installing lots of required software, receiving a Sony Ericsson P800 for my future work there, and - of course - surfing on the web.