Hi there…. It’s really late

Hi there....

It's really late today, about 2200 hours local time here in copenagen. natalie cole is singing open-air in tivoli tonight, and i really wish i was going. but there's noone to go with, and i'm really not in the mood for solo tonight. so instead i'm here at the office, making a backup of my personal files, and reading up on my Extreme Programming skills. XP rocks, but i guess, any way you turn it, there is something geekish, and slightly scary about a kid in his mid-twenties sitting at the office at 2200 hours reading up on the latest in software methodology. whew! that brought the sweat of a mid-life geek-crisis to my forehead :-)
what the f... i have to admit it fascinates me, this xp stuff. countering some of the very fundamentals, that are the basis of most other software methodologies, it has a point. it's very peter naur, if anybody knows what i'm refering to.

i really hope i get the chance to work somewhere where xp is an experimental reality. somewhere, where i have the freedom to try it, and make people belive it. it's simple, and bases itself on the premises that change in software specifications is not prohibitive. it seems like a fun methodology to work under, unlike most of those i've seen come and go again.

am i geeking? yes i am!

well, apart from the fact that signes away for a week, and i miss her, and most of my friends are away on vacation, and i wasted the entire week-end doing zilch in front of the tv, i actually feel ok. i'm looking forward to 4 weeks in mexico, and maybe just before, or right after that, a big decision for my future.... shh! it's a secret, but it has to do with work. the wireless manager for our international office, asked me wether i wanted to go to NY for a few months. and there are a number of other opportunities, that i can't really talk about right now, but i assure you, you'll be the first to know, as soon as a full public scream is in order.

Unfortunately my mailing list broke down, along with most of the other cgi on the site. I replaced the search function with a hosted service from atomz.com, and that rocks, so i'm slowly out-sourcing ther functionality on the site. first blogger, then atomz, what will be next? maybe i'll move the guestbook somewhere :-)

apart from all this i'm really starving. about time i get dinner :-)

also about time i get involved in something else than this stock-market driven reality of work. i miss the discussions on brainstorms, i used to have, and all the idealistic plans of saving the world. i guess sometimes, getting to know yourself better isn't always 100% the way to go. i used to really belive in my ability and desire to make a change, but gradually i've come to realize, that i'm great at getting the ideas, getting all excited about them, talking and dreaming, but when it comes to making a project happen, that's just not me!
i'd really like to volunteer for something like geek corps. they arrange for geeks like me to spend some valuable time helping and training 3rd world technology companies to get on top, and have a shot in an increasingly divided technology world. that, i think is something i could really do. help someone using what i'm good at, is what i might like to do. and 3 months in africa, is something i think, even i could survive.

remember: always remember who your real friends are :-)