I thought about blogging a little bit about how cold Chile has been these last few days but after having spent 7 sentences complaining I was just tired of hearing my self complain. I shouldn’t complain. I am a very happy man! I have just spent a week in my new role as self-employed in South America. Life has ups and downs and this sure is an up. I think many would consider what I am doing to be a sacrifice, and I do too like 3 minutes in total every day. But those other (24*60)-3 minutes I like it. In fact, I love it. Not loving IT, though. We have some issues with networks, with some technicalities in the system and with this new Windows Vista that I was foolish enough to purchase the other day. It’s like XP in slow-motion, which I guess is a nice feature if you really love XP, otherwise it could be considered quite annoying (read = *** annoying).

Those 3 minutes of mental self-spanking are so far due to waking up on the living-room floor where I… wouldn’t say stay… where I survive during nights… waking up whenever a toe or a similar extremity finds itself outside of the ridiculously thick layer of blankets I hide under. Outside of that, but inside the apartment, you could freeze do death. I would say some 2 degrees tops, that probably is an exaggeration but a justified such... There I went about the weather anyway… sorry!

So what’s new on the Needish-frontiers. For the initiated party it might be interesting knowing that we are working on some exciting algorithms… can an algorithm be exciting? Definitely! Especially when you own a part of it! Those algorithms are not really new to the concept but they were planned for a future version. A Skype-chat with a very nice man – an American lawyer – yesterday evening had us understand that for quite simple reasons those algorithms should be moved from version 2 to version 1. Thank you nice American lawyer, if you read this!

Moving something from version 2 to version 1 means changes in priorities and we are now thinking of what to remove from version 1. I will throw some options out there and let readers vote.

Needish will, in version 1, remove the following feature from its web-service:

1) Help-texts explaining how to use the system

2) A background image of the management team singing Shakira

3) Links to go from one part of the system to another

It’s a tough one! Believe me, I know.

The Shakira-picture will be taken next week and no one knows about it yet. That’s one of the CEO-perks. I can tell people to either make complete fools of them selves on stage or work all Sundays in August… without office-heating!

So, karaoke Kick-off next week. Ale, can you make necessary arrangements?

During kick-off we will also discuss the Gantt-scheme in the tactical plan! How much fun!

Chau / Oskar

After two cold rainy and windy days, Santiago woke up this morning without any sign of smog. The sun rose up over the city and the Andes turned into an awesome and huge white landscape. Needish office is plenty of sun, and warmer. So, no stove needed. The sun enters through the windows and we’ll enjoy that for a couple of minutes more. After 2pm a huge building in front of us blocks the sun. Anyway, here’s the view we had this morning. Enjoy!