BarCamp and people from Durbs
This update is long overdue, which I blame on being busy and not having anyone prod me about it.

Anyways, this past long weekend involved much running around for me. Since BarCamp Cape Town was happening, both the_5th_weel and Ralph came down to Cape Town.

Ralph came by bus, arriving 08h00 on Thursday morning (because he's a bit of an idiot and got the dates wrong) so he had to wander around the V&A Waterfront until 16h30 when I could leave work and come fetch him. From there, we crawled down the N2 at rush hour to collect the_5th_weel from the airport before coming all the way back to Seapoint to stay in his mother's timeshare. Thursday night was mostly catching up on what has happened since I came to Cape Town and Friday morning we headed off to BarCamp.

The first day of BarCamp is detailed on dewet's blog far better than I could do it. From my side, the point was more to meet the people than listen to the talks, so much of the time I was wandering around seeing what everyone was up to. In between I also hacked on the new version of my website, coming Real Soon Now to a webserver near you.

Saturday morning Ralph had to be back at the bus station at 05h30. That hurt. Next time I'll make sure he pays the extra and gets a plane ticket at a reasonable time of day. On the other hand, he's decided that two 26 hour bus trips are more than enough, so that shouldn't be a problem. After that (and breakfast) we headed off to BarCamp day two.

the_5th_weel and I hung around after cleanup and followed Conrad to the Waterfront where we drank beer that the BrauHaus kindly brewed just for us. They also made the best Wiener Schnitzel I've eaten since I was in Wien. Much fun was had by all.

Sunday morning I took the_5th_weel back to the airport, only to be informed later that he had managed to subtract the "arrive an hour before" twice and was way too early. The rest of the day was spent chilling at my cousin's house in Wynberg writing more python and trying to ignore whatever was on the TV people kept turning on. In total, I drove 300km for the weekend.

As a nice touch, Caffeine in Seapoint are offering a free coffee and muffin to anyone who blogs about them. This seems like a great way to get some cheap marketing and I'm quite happy to prostitute my blog for food and caffeine.