Fall's conference season has started today! Just as Clemens, I did two talks at JAOO in Denmark today, and I can tell you that it's definitely an interesting - but nevertheless fun - experience to speak at a conference where the main sponsors are Sun and Oracle and every second person wears a shirt from one of those companies.

Unfortunately, I can't attend tonight's conference party as I have to get up tomorrow at 5:00 am to fly to Basta!2003 in Frankfurt where my first talk starts at 1:45 pm. Then it's Zurich/Switzerland, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Pretoria/South Africa, Zurich/Switzerland - all with a two week break in between each event. Yeah, I'm back on the track.