I spent an exciting and eventful weekend in Amsterdam at the ECLM. Edi Weitz and Arthur Lemmens organized this wonderful conference. Great speakers, a wonderful venue and perfect organization. Thank you again!

I had a great time talking to:

• Edi Weitz about a possible timeline for the publication of the Common Lisp Cookbook.
• Jans Aasman about AllegroCache, FramerD, Clustra and the art of programming.
• Samir Sekkat (knowledgetools.de) about the diagnostic assistant tool they built to help doctors to structure the diagnostic process
• Jim E. Newton about the software tools for chip designers created by cadence.
• Pascal Costanza about his ideas regarding publishing a collection of classic Lisp papers in book form and about the 2nd European Lisp and Scheme Workshop in Glasgow, co-located with ECOOP 2005 he organizes. His Layers idea, programmable context for software modules, could be a new metaphor for creating self-configuring systems.
• Marc Battyani about his amazing Fractal Framework written in Common Lisp that doesn't use or need continuations. His live demo was breathtaking.
• Rudi Schlatte about SBCL and his work on text classifiers
• Fred Seibel about the passion of programming Lisp
• Dave Fox about new developments regarding LispWorks
• Antonio Menezes Leitao about his idea to open source Linj
• Manuel Odendahl about the optical mouse adapter for my Symbolics Workstation
• Ralf Mattes about his work on keyword extraction from articles in newspaper archives and about a new paper that uses compression to implement robust text clustering

and many many others.

I collected and authenticated GPG key-signatures from the following individuals: Robert Strandh, Marc Battyani, Rudi Schlatte, Juho Snellman, Daniel Barlow, Andreas Fuchs and Max-Gerd Retzlaff.

I sold some t-shirts, but demand outstripped my supply. If you would like to buy a t-shirt please make sure you use the right shop depending on your geographic location: [US shop] [EU shop]