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