I spent the last week in Barcelona, visiting the IBM AIX5L seminar, located in the beautifull World Trade Center in the old Barcelona port. I'm under a NDA, so I can't much blog about the AIX technical issues discussed there, so I'll stick to talking about Barcelona itself. The city hasn't changed much since I visited it two years ago, though I was surprised to find out that I liked it much more now. The nightlife is quite vibrant (not difficult if you see that most restaurants only open at 9 pm), and the unrest it radiates really caught on me. Unluckily, the convention center opened every day at 9 am, which made a deep plunge into the Barcelona nightlife nearly impossible (can't say we didn't try... ;)