After being a week in California attending the OpenSolaris Developer Summit and an internal Open Source summit held at Sun's campus in Santa Clara, I am on my way to Mexico for a few more congresses.

Quite sadly, I could not fly from SFO to Mexico, so I have had to go through Houston/Texas.. and, what could I say about such an unforgetable experience? :-)

The first thing you see after landing is a bunch of t-shirts and stickers with the quote: "Don't mess with Texas".. which, I suppose, is the equivalent of the "I love x", "I've been in x" or the "You are very welcome to x" banners that you read in the rest of the world.

However, besides that little hospitality difference, what shocked me the most was a sweet but severe voice announcing over the airport PA system: "Any inappropriate remark or joke concerning security may result in your arrest. Thank you."

It could be because European people usually have a different point of view about many subjects (including freedom), but I could have never imagined that you could be arrested for joking... not even in Texas!!