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Very nice about last weekend: everything! The food! OMG, the food! It was so fantastic! Paris: great atmosphere, a very unique place. The festival: excellent! We had a lot of fun, and so had all the other exhibitors. Met quite some cool people there. And everything was perfectly organized. Also very nice: the large mall near Euro Disney. It puts any American (let alone German) mall to shame. The comic book store was extremely nice, though I didn't buy anything: I would not have been able to stop spending money once I started. And I don't have space for figurines anyway. Oh, and did I mention the food?
Yesterday was the final day of the Tracks festival. We had our presentation on stage (Timduru doing Stepmania, presentation of fursuits, a photoshooting with visitors), which was well received, especially the photoshooting. The place was even more crowded than Saturday. I heard the number of 3700 visitors in total, but I'm a bit sceptic about that. Maybe they also counted the visitors of the Saturday night concert.
One thing: this thing is crowded with visitors. I didn't expect so many visitors. We are extremely popular there, lots of interested and open-minded visitors, many families with children. Luckily, cheetah_spotty did the TV interview. I would not have been able to answer those quite tricky personal questions. And besides all that, we're having a ball.
We (BigBlueFox, Cheetah, Nightfox, TaniDaReal, Tioh and me) are currently at the Rassemblement Les Mondes Hors-Pistes (Gathering of the Off-Track Worlds) in Paris, a festival to celebrate 10 years of the TV programme "TRACKS", which runs on the French-German cultural public TV channel Arte. It is a lot of work, but we're having a great time exhibiting some furry art and show fursuits. If you want to read more about it: bigbluefox is blogging a lot about the event.
Luckily, MacOS X is based on some kind of BSD, in other words: it is a Unix system. It even comes with X11. However, as a desktop system many tools I like and need aren't present. I already had an ancient version of Darwinports running since 10.2. That old installation was terribly broken, though, and almost nothing compiled anymore on 10.4. Thus, I removed it and started again. There are several alternatives available, two of them being based on (Free)BSD ports, and one on Debian packaging.
your navigation systems are built on Linux. TomTom Home 2.x reportedly is built on xul-runner (also free software.) Yet, the only way to get the new maps from your web shop is by downloading them with TomTom Home 2.x, which itself is non-free and only available for Windows. Not for Mac OS, let alone Linux. You don't even let me download the software from your website with Firefox running on Linux.
It was my turn to do the Große Hausordnung. After cleaning the sidewalk, patio, the front and back doors (I still don't understand why that has to be done every week), the attic and the basement I finally drove to a car parts store to replace the dying battery of my car. Luckily, the engine still started and I didn't have to use the bus to get to the shop. I drove to the gas station afterwards to get some gas (still quite expensive) and proceeded to the grocery store. On the way back I bought antifreeze for the washer system at a different gas station.
Then wait until you hear her version of the Heart classic Alone (NSFL¹)