Hey all,
this is really the first Roller blog I’m ever running. It’s created mainly to try out webapps on our Tomcat server because our customers would like to deploy some, and it seems to have been working great.

I like unit testing, but this guy refers to an article
that I think
perhaps has misunderstood a little bit. Testing the internals of a
component doesn’t give much meaning to me. Oh well, shan’t be picky,
especially since this post was mainly to try out trackback.

Wow, it’s been ages, hasn’t it. Well, you’ll be all very pleased to hear that I’m studying for my exams that are coming up. In studying, I mean of course that I’ve taken up the keyboard again, started playing Beatles on my guitar, rehearsing Corelli, been having a concert with the choir (it went totally fabulous! And it was great standing on the gallery singing in a quartet while the rest of the choir was singing towards us with candles in their hands! Magnificent!) and saying yes to play both for my job, for a choir that’s doing a Shutz-piece my choir also had parts of on the concert, and said ok to sing with another choir. Seriously, I have no clue why I study IT. I think it has something to do with sanity, but I begin to feel that I need some time off to study music. I’ve figured the best way to pick up my keyboard skills is to do La Folia in all scales. So that’s what I was doing just now. I made myself a cup of soup, but since I was so busy with the music, it I took a way to big cup, put the soup powder in and put too much water in it, so it’s more like reddish water.

Well, apart from music, Thu was visiting me all the way from Switzerland. I had a great time and I’m quite sure she did too. It was terriffic seeing her again. And I’m sure Anne Lise (hah, I insist on that spelling, thank you very much ) called me for ages from Australia. I think she’s giving Optus a run for its money by using their deals to the fullest.

Oh well, back to the keyboard. And yes, I should be sleeping now. But then again, who shouldn’t?

I’m on my way from work now, and an incredible banging can be heard from the closest train. It sounds as if it’s running on square wheels. I cannot imagine who took the wise decision to let that train run through the subway, ruining the rails. It strikes me that what our subway system lacks the most is management. There cannot be any economic or service reason to run that train.

My day has so far been fine, if not a little bit confused. When I went out the door this morning, I didn’t wear my contacts. That sais something of how tired I usually am when I go out the door. Now, after literally having my nose glued to the monitor, I am on my way home to fetch my contacts and my laptop so I can attend a statistics tut. After that I’m off to get a matress for Thu who’s coming from Switzerland to visit tomorrow. I’m really looking forward to that.

At work everything is going right, although an increasing number of requests and less and less time to code makes the page feel more and more like a well-intended hack. A neatly designed and poorly documented hack. But it’ll all turn out right in the end as it’ll converge from chaos into a neatly presented piece of order.

Today I have done what everyone plans to do and no-one ever does (1). I’ve been studying statistics at uni all day! And I actually got quite a bit done, covering a fourth of the material and several weeks worth of tutes. Then I had a chat with David who’s in Bankok, and now I’m on my way to choir practise. This has been a dramatic improvement of yesterday where I played with my ensemble in church and then waited for falling stars at night. I didn’t get anything smart done during the day (I had a lovely chat with a great friend of mine, though ) and although they had predicted hundreds and thousands, I only got to see two falling stars. Oh well, I made a wish anyway.

(1) Ok, they do, but pretend they don’t