The Chaos Communication Congress is europe's premier hacker conference. It's my first time at this or indeed any such event, and it'd be great to see some HNers there. I'll be the one with the ill-advisedly long hair speaking loudly in an english accent, although I anticipate that this may not help to narrow it down much. Hell, it doesn't even narrow it down within my own circle of friends. Oh well. If you see someone you think might be me, run over and give them the Secret Hacker News Handshake™

Anyway, very much looking forward to some serious ad-hoc hacking, some new years eve carousing, and the warm sense of satisfaction that can only be derived from the ruinination of a decades-old event by ones mere presence as a newcomer. Hopefully I'll come away without any soldering iron burns, darwin rootkits or sexually transmitted diseases. Fingers crossed. See you there.