Back online...

I have now returned from my two weeks of paternal leave that I took after Lena was born. I am glad I had the opportunity to fully focus on family for some time - it takes a while to get used to such a demanding new family member! But fortunately she's developing very well and is a joyful bundle (as long as she's not hungry!). The only thing I feel a bit sad about is not having been able to attend the MySQL Users Conference in Santa Clara - judging from the comments on Planet MySQL, people were having a great time.

The coming weeks will be busy for me - apart from catching up with stuff that piled up during the past two weeks, I will be travelling a bit. This coming Saturday (6th of May), I will be at the LinuxTag 2006 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Just four days later, I will be in Wiesbaden again, this time to participate on a panel discussion about chances and risks in using Open Source Software in the enterprise, which will take place at the JAX 2006 conference. On May 20th, there will be a big party in Nuremberg, Germany organized by former colleagues from SUSE. I look forward to meeting many of these folks again, we had a great time together. It's quite amazing that more than four years have already passed since I left SuSE and joined MySQL - time really flies!