(Originally posted on MySpace)
Now that spring's definitely here, I've started making holiday plans.

The main part of my plan is that I'm definitely planning to have a holiday this year. I didn't really have one last year, although we went to a nice bikers meet in Germany. Oh, and my mother took me to France for a week, but that was more of a working holiday since we were there to help decorate an old farm house and I painted all week long, except on those days when I put up the kitchen tiles. I did have a good time, though. But this year I want to:
So when I heard about CCC2007, that sounded like just the thing.
Apparently, it's an international hackers convention, going on during five days in the beginning of August, near Berlin (Germany, of course).


I know I'm no hacker and only half a nerd, but I had such a great time at WhatTheHack two years ago that I don't think I'd want to miss this. WTH was just like summer camp. A kind of freaky techno summer camp for grownups.
And it might even be fun to stay there a bit longer, say: two weeks, and help them setting things up, and running the event.
So I sent an e-mail which went like this:

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Subject: Hello, we'd like to join the circus please

Hi,
We read about the Chaos Communication Camp 2007 and we would like to be part of the crew.
In return for admittance we are offering two weeks of our time, and our mAd sKiLLz:

-one of us is a sysadmin with 25 years of experience, especially non-Windows
-the other is a professional signwriter and decorator since 17 years and occasionally builds websites
-language skills: Dutch, English, German
-we both enjoy and are good at tinkering, fixing things and building stuff
-we are easygoing, love to improvise and brush our teeth fairly regularly.

If you're the wrong person to send this to, could you please forward it to the right person? We had a hard time locating a contact address on the website.

Looking forward to August,
yours sincerely,

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Now, what German hacker in his right mind could possibly resist us?
*flutters eyelids seductively*

Here's a pic of my tent and bike at WhatTheHack: