manifestations are fun

Went to the manifestation against software patents in Brussels, today. Kinda fun; there was quite a number of people from all over Europe, and we did a (police-accompanied) walk of about an hour to the European Council (which is not the same thing as the European Parliament, mind you). There was free food, which is also nice (but obviously not the reason I was there).

Once there, they did a nice pantomime play in which they made fun of the whole situation.

The press was there, too, with some newspaper photographers, and camera teams from the government-payed TV stations of both the french speaking and the flemish speaking part of Belgium. We didn't make the 6 o'clock news, but that's just a 10 minute newsflash. Could be that we'll make it on one of the later editions.

Which reminds me. It's almost 7 now...