The last months have been quite exhausting in terms of getting people on track for the upcoming 22C3 but we are starting to get things sorted out and you dear readers may expect a ton of information floating towards you real soon hopefully revealing everything you need to get your participation planned.

There will be a blog and a public wiki soon and the web site will get an update as well. I hope to have most things ready on wednesday.

So everybody is going to test drive Flock a bit and I am one of them, I admit. Looks basically like a good idea, to wrangle web log editing, public bookmarking and tagging into the browser. Not sure how all this will turn out. So far it’s looking not bad to say the least.

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There is a webcam pointing to our Blinkenlights installation. It showed a different area yesterday but apparently, they moved it a bit ;)

Thanks to ST who told them to do so.

So. We sort of made it. The installation itself is running now and you can play Pong if you call 0190-987654. The money you pay on the phone is for the project. So you can donate by playing outdated computer games. Not bad, huh?

If you have installed the blinkensim you can choose a “hdl” theme, make blinkensim connect to proxy.blinkenlights.de and get the screen’s content streamed over the Internet and play Pong from whereever you want.

No time for details on how to install blinkensim. Yes, we lack documentation on the web. I know. I’ll try to explain. But this first: it won’t run on windows and no, there is nothing we can do about it now. Get a Mac, get a UNIX box. Whatever. There it will work.

Some of you might have catched it already as we have started testing last night: Blinkenlights is coming back to its original building today for a limited time (two weeks). And yes, there will be Pong too and you will be able to receive the Blinkenstream via our X11 simulator software.

I’ll keep you posted. More stuff later.

I am back. I left Kuala Lumpur on sunday and I hadn’t the time to report on what was going on as I have been busy talking to people all the time and being in permanent combat with my Jetlag. I needed days to adjust and before you know it its over. Now I had some days to recover and I am sort of on my way to re-adjust to European timings. But all this has been quite stressful for me, surprisingly.

But this doesn’t apply to the conference itself which was very interesting. Thanks to Dhillon (aka l33tdawg) and his lovely crew for the overwhelmingly warm welcome and the overall good handling of everything. Special thanks also to Belinda and Amy who have been the most active and visible people for me. But there are many more who did work behind the scenes and have been generally helpful.

That said: it was easy for me to concentrate on the HITBSecConf2005 conference itself, a rather weird feeling for me as I am usually so busy with everything that I can’t really enjoy any talks at the Chaos Communication Congress. In KL it was different: I tried to follow as much talks as possible and the only one I really missed was the final goodbye event due to being too tired.

I will wrap up some notes on given talks in following postings.