ICT-1 (photos)

Still sitting at LHR. Processed some photos for publication. Geeky stuff: piles and piles of HP Procurve equipment!

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LHR: Bye bye, Jamboree!

Hmmh, well, it seems like it is almost a month since I last wrote anything here about the Jamboree. It was fun forty days at Hylands Park. A lot of work, but certainly worth it. Maybe our whole team should have worked a bit less and enjoyed the Jamboree a bit more. For most of us it was only a day or two spent sampling - mostly as spectators - the activities available. Yesterday (Saturday) evening we were to dinner around seven, something like two hours earlier than usual. It was funny sitting at "the mansion" with Lauri and Thomas post-dinner and enjoy the sunset for an hour or so. Usually, we got back to the Island hub for dinner when it was already dark, and often headed back to the House or the field afterwards for a couple of hours of late late shift. I don't really know why we worked so hard: maybe a habit was acquired during the intensive build period and it was simply hard to slack off. And of course there was the team spirit - perhaps the most memorable thing of this Jamboree. If there was work to be done, everyone wanted to be there to do it.

Some twenty scouts arrived an hour or so ago here. Probably with the last non-Heathrow Express transport. At least some Brazilians and Italians, the others I don't recognize. We also bumped into couple of groups of scouts in London earlier today: "Jambo!" ... "Hello!" Maybe I should have come here later, but I thought I could catch the Austrian Airlines office before ten pm, have my business class tickets and then head to a lounge to spend the night. Unfortunately the Austrian (actually Lufthansa) ticketing desk was already closed, and anyhow the lounge would appear to be in the area where you need to be checked-in.

Now, let's see if I can hear any wireless networks sitting here on the floor near an electricity socket.

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