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Diary entry,   MattiKinnunen , 31.12.2003 - 5.1.2004   Paska reissu, mutta tulipan tehtyä   or   Shitty trip, but I did it Everything went well until I in my incredible stupidity tasted some chicken food in plane (by South China). It was poisoned or stale and tasted bad. For some reason I even swallowed. Too bad. After 7 hours I was iller than I have ever been in my life. Anyway, we had some time before the sickness to check the surroundings of our hotel (South China Hotel, Sanya, Hainan). It is right on the beach and since we had a super deluxe room with seaview in the top floor, we were also able to enjoy it quite much, even from the hotel room. The water is warm and the evening (New Year´s Eve!) was nice. There was some lame BBQ in the garden but we had some local BBQ in the nearby busstation. I have never tasted so good grilled squids! Oh, they were heavenly. If someone promises me them in an afterlife in heaven, I may even consider starting to believe i...

Working hours: about 4 I do not remember what I did. Something useful anyway, I suppose. We left for Sanya quite early. See MattiKinnunenLongDiary2004x01x05Sanya. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: about 8 I do not remember what I did. Something useful anyway, I suppose. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Joulukuussa 2003 kävin työmatkalla Milanossa ja Suomessa. Tähän on poimittu matkan vapaa-aika, viikonloppu Venetsiassa, käynti kotona ja ensimmäinen joulu Kiinassa. Teksti on alkuperäistä englantia, ja hakasulkeissa ovat omat lisäykseni. Tiistai 2.12.2003 I went shopping for some souvenirs: 8 pairs of Hangzhou scissors and some Chinese cooking knives. And for myself, lots of wine. New thing: Seeing a thief running with a woman's purse and lots of people running after him. Something I learned today: The more good wine, the better. Keskiviikko 3.12.2003 In the evening I packed my bags for Italy and Finland and continued drinking Beaujolais Nouveau. New thing: I understood why taxi drivers keep the car windows open. The seat covers smell bad. Lauantai 6.12.2003 Tampere. I visited my mother and brother. In the evening I went to my brother's garage and we watched "Saving private Ryan", which broke me into tears. Keskiviikko 10.12.2003 [Milano.] Dinner at hotel: ...

Desperate shopping around the French Concession. I hate bargaining and did not buy anything. Sirkku bought some clothes. In the evening we watched a Dutch movie: Zos and Zu (or something like that). It is a good one, and I think quite Dutch. I may move to Netherlands next. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

The girls in Asia Travels were a bit shocked when we rushed in to their office during their lunch break and wanted to pay our hotel in Sanya, Hainan. In the end everyone was happy and I was some hundreds of dollars poorer but had a reservation (just one printed page, but in color). The foreign language bookstore in Fuzhou Lu turned out to be quite good. They have quite many new books, also on China, in the top floor. They charge 10 RMB per one USD, which means that the price is quite the same as directly from Amazon. They also have a selection of classics in the ground floor and they are almost free. I bought Shakespeare´s Tempest, Prince by Macchiavelli (I have it also in Finnish, but in Finland and I think one should read it every second year or so) and some other books. We had sushi for lunch. This time it was not that fun, maybe the novelty has worn out already. In the evening we went to see the circus to the Shanghai Circus in the north. It was mostly acrobatics, which was act...

Working hours: ehough for a Boxing day! Quote of the day: "People try to put us down just because we get around. I do not need this f** s**" Who, modified by Patti Smith. Some nice neighbour took us a few km from our home and found a taxi for us. He is working in the university as a member of the staff, but is not a professor. Drives very nice car though. University staff must have decent salaries in China! The taxi took us to the railway station, where Sirkku got off. I tried to get the taxidriver to take me to Ocean Place, but he refused. So, I had to walk some 20 minutes, which was just OK. Nice morning, some 4 degrees but sun is shining so nicely! I took train to Shanghai. In the evening we had nice dinner in some Sichuan-like restaurant in Julu Lu. We stayed in Shanghai Hotel, which is surpisinly close in style to the other "good" hotels in many Western Cities. In general, it is funny how standardisation and greed quite often lead to similar results as 5-y...

Working hours: ehough for a Christmas day! Working with the infamous IIP-tool. I added some 100 competences for myself! I was really tired, too several naps during the days. In the evening we just idled and enjoyed some chocolate at home. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: ehough for a Christmas eve! We had a nice lunch at Holiday Inn (JaniRahkonen, JyrkiInnanen, KirsiLagus , Sirkku Ikonen, HannuLeskinen , MaunuHolma, HeikkiAhola, JanneLeppanen , Katja) with some French and Italian wines and even some foods, which clearly belong to Finnish Christmas table (beetroot, smoked salmon, peas, champignons) and then the normal Chinese and international hotel selection. Fun, nice. The local Sacher-torta was a bit strange, though. In the evening we had a small Christmas party at our home (MaunuHolma, HeikkiAhola, HannuLeskinen , me and Sirkku). See ... for more Presents for me: Mountain of the mind excellent book and addition to my mountaineering and adventure collection. Armchair adventure, that is the way! Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours 8 Heuristic of the day: something tells me that all of this is going to better tomorrow (is this more a motto). MattiKinnunenLongDiary2003x12x23 9-11 Emails about continuation of my contract, statistics etc. 11-12 Statistics and MXU warming thinking. 12-13 Lunch, walking and thinking. 13-15 MXU warming, A43 comments to some persons 15-17 Twiki hacking etc. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours 8 Mostly just trying to stay awake. Writing some emails and diary. The jetlag is too bad. It takes a few days before I am fully able to do something sensible. It is fun to be in China again. In the evening we went to Carrefour to buy some Chrismas stuff. Dinner at home. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Taxi from Shanghai to Hangzhou with MaoWeiqiang. Idling at home and then dinner at some hotpot-restaurant next to westlake. Exhausted. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Flight back to Shanghai in business class. Fun! Nice food, a lot of space, no queueing and lots of champagne! Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours 8 Morning: Meeting on architecture docs and processes. See HzSeMinutes2003x12x19xSystemToolsAndProcesses. Afternoon: Meeting on DIMUTI. See ... Evening: in Tampere with my mother and brother. No dinner. But nice discussions and later (when mother went to bed) some beer at the local bar. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours 8 Morning: TAF meeting. I and Maunu were probably too verbose there. Afternoon: meeting on traffic testing with SamuliKenttamies , HeikkiLatvala . We agreed that the architect must prepare traffic usecases from which the system testers then can derive test cases. The architects also must define the testing network configuration but also ask form customer care. * Evening: visiting Flexi-people in Hiomo. Idling. Dinner (fried herrings and porter) at Botta. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours 8 Morning: meeting on traffic capacity brokers. See HzSeMinutes2003x12x17xCapacityBrokers. Afternoon: discussion with several persons like SamiTilander, TeroPeltola . Evening: Christmas presents etc. Fried small whitefish at the sosialist restaurant Juttutupa. Some friends were there too: Tuomas Seppa, Timo Paukko, Timo Ernamo, Paivi Nikkila, Heli Anko and Outi Perahuhta. And the whole foreign department of Helsingin Sanomat. Fun! Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours 8 Morning: Motorola meeting continued. I skipped most of it since it became too detail oriented. I do not need to know all the details. Afternoon: A workshop on Performance attributes with MaunuHolma, TapioPehkonen, EeroPaukkkonen and JyrkiRuohio. We invented a dimensioning table, which we will implement later. Maunu has notes on this meeting somewhere Evening: JanHellstrom gave me lift to the centre. I had dinner (Italian fish soup, fried pike perch) at Carelia restaurant. Good food but a bit expensive. Orinally I would have wanted to have mussels but they did not have them. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours 8 Morning: emails, misc discussions with several persons. I was a bite late to work, it was so hard to wake up. Afternoon: meeting with Motoral experts on PQII. They had solve most of the problems. The experts were really sharp. It seems that the problems we have had with Motorola are not due to the techinical expertice but more due to normal organizorial issues which also affect our IPA-development. And we must remember that we have made our HW-desing too complex ourselves. Evening: dinner in restaurant Sikala with some old friends. Everyone is getting older. Opinions are getting rounder, just like the persons. There were Maria Viljanen, Satu Kiiskinen, Petri Griinari, Tero Norkola, Samuli Kunttu, Mika Ronkko, Ruby van Wekken, Kai Artes and Hannah Wilson. We discussed about something quite light, teased Mika for looking like Saddam and had nice time. I had fried herrings (aah) and a bottle of white wine (which cost 4 times more than in Venice, sigh). At hotel at 11.3...

Venice. Thick fog. No vaporettos to Murano available. I took a long walk around the Ghetto instead. And then had lunch at Ostaria Nova, in which I also had lunch in December 2002. Not a bad place. This time I has antipasto di Ca'Oro (or something, fish and squid), toast with baccala and deep fried squid. And wine and grappa etc. I took Eurostar, 1st class back to Milan. But some sad person threw himself under the train and we were 2 hours late. So, I arrived at airport after the plane to Copenhagen should have left. But the plane was 2 hours late too. So, in the end I arrived in Helsinki at 2.45am. The police mistook me as a terrorist and checked my passport when I left my bag in the luggage storage room. Or then they mistook me for Santa Claus I did not see any new churches etc in Venice. I just took it easy, ate the dished I had dreamt of all the year and just enjoyed the city without cars. I think that I may move to Venice after China. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa ...

In Milan and Venice. I check-out the hotal and would have made it to 9.05 train, but the train was too full. I did not dare to risk standing the whoel 267 km to Venice. I has a coffee and read some newspapers and and spent time in the wonderful Milan railwaystation. It is a really nice place and full of interesting personalities. I arrived in Venice at 14.30 and took a vaporetto to Rialto from where I somehow found my way to Piazza San Marco and my hotel ( Noemi . Some walking and sailing with vaporettos and then I found that my favourite restaurant Paradiso Perdutto was close due to renovations. Too bad, I was really sad. Fortunately I found another restaurant for dinner (sarde in saor, spagetti con nero di seppia, fritto misto, torta di chokolato, grappa, cafe and some wine) with funny old men serving. The name of the place is .... After dinner some idling around. Piazza di San Marco is truly magnificient in the night. And it was so empty, no stupid tourist in addition to me. ...

Working hours: 8 Still the VFI-meeting continues. Everyone was a bit tired and since VFI is not using all our Netact tools, they were not that interested in some of them. We kept the presentations anyhow and in the end (at 3.30 pm) everyone was quite please with the whole meeting. At least I learned a lot both about our product and the ways in which our customers use them. I had a walk in the morning before breakfast. This time I walk 15 minutes away from the city centre. Not nice and too cold too. In the evening some sightseeing in the centre of Milan. First we ( MaunuHolma, Maija Saukko, Vesa Heikkila, Rami Syvasalmi and me) had dinner at the same restaurant as on Thu. This time i had antipasti (lots of fried sardines) and a pizza and the normal amount of white wine. Not bad even though the pizza was quite small. With Vesa and Rami we visited La Scala (under renovation, but standing still) or the plaza opposite. We also went to the roof of the Duomo. Excellent. That was quite en...

Working hours: 9 The VFI-statistics meeting continued. 6.30-7.45 Morning walk from the hotel towards the city centre. Nice, cafes, open air markets etc. 9-9.30 Lorenza X from VFI told us how they use our statistics: Collect measurement all time, 24 h readiness to interfere. Weekly 5 KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for the top management: at least fixed nw congestion and A-interface (=signalling) congestion. We (NOKIA) should implement something similar to IPA too, at traffic level. I gave my presentation. It went fast and well, but did not have too much in the way of sensible content  Dinner at Pizzeria Vecchia Napoli, near via Dante: antipasto misto, , , tartufo nero, 6 dl of white wine, grappa. Nice. With MaunuHolma and Maija Saukko. Back at hotel quite early and then sleeping or something. Or maybe one Sambuca. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 10 8.40-19 VFI statistics workshop. (with MaunuHolma) Dinner at hotel: mushrooms (porcini) and polenta (a kind of maize porridge), squid spaghetti, chocolate mousse and 1 bottle of young red wine. Nice. In the evening I check my email (nothing too important). We were just listening while Guyla Bodog presented MSC-statistics. Guyla is quite a guru in this area (and in many others I assume). Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 8 Course on system architecture by Gerrit Muller at NRC. Whole day. Flight from Helsinki via Copenhagen to Milan. I arrived at hotel at 11.30 pm and drank one glass of Sambuca! The hotel was in the middle of no-where and a Holiday Inn. Too bad, no luxury! I was disappointed. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 8 Heuristic of the day: Select for talent, not for experience or skills. Additional heuristic of the day: Never try to perfect people. Focus on strengths! In the evening I just read Tekniikan maailma-magazine and took it easy. 15-18 Discussions with JariSimolin, TapioPehkonen and TeroPeltola . It seemst that Tapio and us (=Maunu and me) have reached quite the same results about architecture documentation. Tapio has concentrated more in process. Now we just need to merge our knowledge and we will be quite much better off than now. 9-12 Emails, free discussion. My phone is broken, call MaunuHolma instead. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

.Just taking it easy. I also met Kyosti Ranto in the evening at Coffee House Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Tampere. I visited my mother and brother. Quite late since I slept until 3pm. BTW, the Hotel Intercontinental in Helsinki is really a bad hotel. I will change hotel! It is just terrible, waste of money. In the evening I went to my brothers garage and we watched "Saving private Ryan", which broke me into tears. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Trelling to Helsinki via Shanghai. In the evening I went to Restaurant Bulevardia with some friends. The food was good, but too expensive and the service was lousy. Too bad. Then some beer in William K and after staying awake for 27 hours I went to bed. I was feeling a bit dizzy due to the lack of sleep. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 6 h Heuristic of the day: Do the hard parts first Evening: Shanghai. Dinner at Cafe Montmartre and then some desperate shopping. Some wine! 12-15 Misc issues. 11-12 Action point meeting. No minutes, since the action points and their states are minutes! 9-11 Misc isseue, establishing HzSeEmailTag and sending an email to most of out interfaces. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 9 h Heuristic of the day: If you cannot explain it without slides in 5 minutes, either you do not understand it or it does not work. In the evening I packed my bags for Italy and Finland and continued drinkin Beuajolais Nouveau. And reading the security book. 14-17 Working with BasVodde on quality etc. I also moved system engineering team action points to SeItemToDo, which is much better system than the earlier one. Much! 11-12,13-14 See HzSeDiary2003 9-10 Discussions with PasiToivanen and JarmoHeikintalo about RNC organisation. It seems that Flexi has much more logical and simple organisation. Ours is just mixing things up, there are too many departments and at least I have not understood the power/responsibility relations btw these departments. It seems that some of them are there just because they were there in the earlier two organisation and there is unwritten rule that you must not, well you know what. Now e.g. the program managers are hiring chief archite...

Working hours: 8.5 h Heuristic of the day: If you cannot analyse it, do not build it! The French film "L'Ennui" is not worth 2 hours of anyones time. Soft-porn scrap pretending to be art. 18-19 Working: emails, VFI etc. 16.30-18 Shopping. I bought 4 bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau from Carrefour, 99 yuan each. Life is good! 14-16.30 Whatever, e.g HzRtMinutes2003x12x02xPreparation and misc discussion, VFI 11-12, 13-14 Kick offs continue ( See HzSeDiary2003 ) 9-10.15 Kick-off HzSeMinutes2003x12x02xPipingTaskKickOff . Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 12.5 h Heuristic of the day: Everythin should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler (A. Einstein) I came to work by taxi at 9 am. Too cold for cycling, especially since our flat was also almost freezing in the morning. It seems that I am just too stupid for sticking to the normal 8 h /day. I am so ashamed! See MattiKinnunenLongDiary2003x12x01. 20.30-21.30 Intalling SeItemToDo etc. 19-20.30 Discussion with JariSimolin and updating the material for the VFI-workshop. 17-19 Misc issues, thinking and discussion. Twiki drawing tool does not work and system is also otherwise strange. Bad. 16-17 See MattisMinutes2003x12x01RncArchDocsA43. 10-12.30, 14-15.30 see HzSeDiary2003. 12.30-14 whatever, even 10 minutes of eating lunch. 9-10 Email etc Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Asuin vuosina 2003–2004 puolitoista vuotta Hangzhoussa Kiinassa, jonne olin lähtenyt työkomennukselle. Pidin silloin englanninkielistä päiväkirjaa. Tähän sarjaan olen poiminut siitä vain työn ulkopuolisen elämän: kaupungin, ruoan, matkat ja ajatukset. Työasiat ja työkavereiden nimet on jätetty pois. Teksti on alkuperäistä englantia, ja hakasulkeissa ovat omat lisäykseni. Perjantai 14.11.2003 In the evening we were in Shanghai with a couple of friends. Nice to have them here in China for 2 days. We had dinner in one Tepanyaki-restaurant and then visited some bars like Cafe 1931. Lauantai 15.11.2003 I had sushi for breakfast and lunch. Dream came true! We went to dress market and then had lunch at Cafe Montmartre, which is a piece of France in Shanghai. We tried to have drinks in the rooftop bar in Peace hotel but there was a wedding going on there. Pity. Then we did some sightseeing and ended up via a Sichuan restaurant to O'Malleys. Sunnuntai 16.11.2003 We just took it easy a...

Whole day reading books at home. And drinking wine etc. Lazy. Nothing to remember, but still enjoyable. I took 2 naps, but also managed to read Beyond fear for some 150 pages. The book is excellent. I think Nokia should buy one. It would help our security management, which may not be quite satisfactory at the moment. No special dinner or lunch, just some pasta and tunafish etc at home. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Somewhat hangover in the morning. I idled at home, took taxi to the Radisson hotel, bought Internation Herald tribute and went to a small cafe to read it. On the way I bougth 10 CDs: Damaged by Black Flag, Never mind by Sex Pistols, Back in Black by AC/DC etc. I tried to do some work from home. But I could not reach atmweb.ntc.nokia.com, which was eventually fortunate, I assume. I went with Sirkku to Carrefour. There was a small fired and everyone run out of the cafe downstairs. Good, since I could get some food without any queueing. They have quite good wineselection. We bougth 7 bottles. Especially this year's Beaujolais Nouveau (by Laboure-roi) is excellent. I recommend byuing a few bottles. It is really refreshing when you drink it chilled with some mild cheeses or just drink. A lot, like half a bottle. See Beaujolais Nouveau . Later, we had dinner at BasVodde and his wife Yuan in one nice Japanese restaurant in Qindai Lu. Very good and quiet place. And then to Shamrock. ...

Working hours: 7.33 h Heuristic of the day: If you cannot explain it in five minutes , either you do not understand it or it does not work (David Jones) 17 - ... Hangzhou SIG in Commons Place 15 - 16 I added SeItemToDo. It would make action point management automatic! Yes! RsmuTask kick-off HzSeMinutes2003x11x28xRsmuTaskKickOff 9-11 DMT meeting. 8.40-8.55 Queuing to shower. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 10 h ( I am just stupid, see also the following ....) Heuristic of the day: Anyone who gets carried away by a sense of personal significange is an idiot ... if we were not \[in front of the camera\], it would be someone else, who would probably do the job rather better. (John Simpson, BBC) See also MattiKinnunenLongDiary2003x11x27 19-19.30 Some emails, Twiki-issues and SE thinking. 18-19 I make web-pages for RescueTeam. 17-18 Misc issues. 15-17 TAF etc. 13-15 Meetings with HzSeTeamMembers 11-12 Lunch in Holiday Inn. And HZ rescue team meeting. A kick off. 9.30-11 Misc things. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 9.5 h Heuristic of the day: Do as much off-line as possible (MaunuHolma) See also MattiKinnunenLongDiary2003x11x26 16-18.30 Technology transfer workgroup kick-off. See MattisMinutes2003x11x26CompTransWG. 15.30-16 Misc discussions etc 12-15.30 Working on document naming etc. 11-12 Dimensioning meeting: HzSeMinutes2003x11x26xDimensioning . I took notes when Maunu was speaking. I managed to write minutes during the meeting and also put them as slideshow. Very efficient way of working. 10-11 Defining the document naming conventions with MaunuHolma. 9-10 Office work, so to say. Some emails, discussions etc. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 7.25 h Heuristic of the day: The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato. See also MattiKinnunenLongDiary2003x11x25 10.45-18 Working with intranet. See IpaDoc and SystemEngineering for the situation. HzSeActionPoints has now IDs. Still open (MaunuHolma is working on it: naming rules for documents) Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 14 h (really long hacking session in the night) Heuristic of the day: Keep it simple, stupid! See also MattiKinnunenLongDiary2003x11x24 for more information about my day. I decided to move more personal issues to separate entries. Just to keep this a bit shorter. 24-03 I installed some other plugins. See the DSA.Plugins 21-24 I installed HzSeMinutes and spread sheet plugin. And read some emails and even wrote some. 18-19 I installed Drawing plugin to this intranet. 15-16 Working on overload. I enabled automatic notification to this intranet. Add your name to WebNotify and you will get list of changes every hour. 10-14 Meeting (see HzSeDiary2003) and discussion with Maunu about overload situation. 9-10 Whatever, starting. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

We went to visit the Zhejiang Yonggan Curio with Maikki and her family. It was kind of fun, nice weather and nice people. Big house full of excotic furniture. We did not buy anything large, since we may go there another time. And we do not have any house/home in Finland, so it is a bit hard to decide what to buy. We also had lunch at a local place and some beer plus one bottle of Shaoxing wine. The wine is always as fun to drink. In the evening I read Chomsky and went to bed early. Quite fun book, especially after reading Paul Krugman's Great unravelling" and one book of Chinese foreign policy. Reading is fun. And makes one a little more enlightened. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 5.5 h Heuristic of the day: in order to understand something, you must not try to understand everything. Aristotle. Really nice weather: sun, 8 degrees, no wind. Just like it should be. I got up at 8.30, had some noodles, check what HS has to say about the state of the world, walked some 30 minutes, took taxi to office and took shower. The shower at office is much better than the one at our home. Actually, I cannot wash my hair at home. The new park next to my home is taking shape at last. Now there were some people cleaning it or doing something else. Bas told me that the finance minister of the Netherlands keeps public diary in the internet. As I cannot write about my work in the internet, I must use this space. 11-15.30 Praring slides .... for VFI meeting. I took a simple approach. I just took some figures about IPA, which I use to explain the system architecture and the way traffic goes in the system. Then I will just use the official user manual to expla...

Working hours: 12 h Good day, we got a lot of work done. Both me and Maunu are a bit exhausted by now. Memory problems. Tiredness. No aggressions, yet. I must come to work on Saturday in order to make presentation slides from Vodaphone Italy. Not that much of fun. Well, I will take time off some other day then. In the evening I was reading Guardian Weekly, Economist, Noam Chomsky's new book and also some books on China. 15 - 21 SE work, statistics presentation preparation for VFI trip etc. Also interesting email discussions about VFI. 13-15 Piping meeting and also updates to SeIntersiteMeetingPeriods. 12-13 Discussion with Maunu on work load estimates (lunch too) It seems that the work load is at least 50% to large. So, we must do something: either drop/postpone something or let the schedule stretch. We must discuss with others about this and that is why we have a meeting with Petri Vesterinen, Mika Seppanen and others on Monday. 10-12 SE-meeting (Code, Templates,...

Working hours: 9 h I came to office a bit late due to some personal issues. But I think my being late did not hurt anyone. Rainy day, hard rain, dark, 14 degrees. I used taxi both ways. 25 minute walk at noon. 18 - 20 SE work 15.30 - 18 Private, work related, meetings 11-15.30 SE meeting, email etc Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 11 h I must cut down these working days. This is dangerous for my mental and physical healthAnd social life too. 8 hours a day must be enough / maybe I just must concentrate harder and delegate etc more. Weather: 15 degrees, fog, rain. No wind. Quite good day, no nasty surprises, even some calls from Finland. But not enough time to think. One should have at least 2-3 free thinking time. Maybe one should walk outside 1.5 hours a day. Who says that onemust work in office. We could make some SE walks around HZ. It is easier to think while walking than sitting in thenoisy office. 17-18 Discussion with Jyrki Innanen, Maunu Holma and Sampo Sainio on DIMUTI. Question: is IWS1 good starting task for HZ SE team with DIMUTI. I promised to reply by 18th. Other issues related to DIMUTI: version control, prontto corrections etc. How to keep track 16-17 SE-webpage updates (doc pages, the documentation framework) This did not proceed. Some problems with concentrating in a...

Working hours: 6 (sick in the morning) 15-18 Random, boring issues. A bit depressed feeling. Must be the rain. But I draw a new seat order: 14-15 Piping technical discussion 13-14 DIMUTI A-meeting 12-13 office work, emails Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 3.5 (sick in the afternoo 11-12 Piping A-meetint 9-11 Emails etc, thinking Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

I spent the whole day writing DimUti documentation. I am building up saldo sothat I can spend time with my friend 25.-26.4. Poor weather. It was quite warm yesterday. Now it is again some 15C and even some showers. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

I took taxi to work. It is really boring - no adrenalin before work makes me depressed. Anyway, I spent most of the day just talking with workmates on the new organization of NET, how to continue from now on, how to motivate myself etc. In the afternoon, I managed to do some work. Or at least to list what work still needs to be done and in which order. See MattiKinnunenToDo. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Helsingin Sanomat, Mielipide, 9.4.2003 Sarsiin on toistaiseksi kuollut alle sata ihmistä maailmassa, pääosin Kiinassa. Kiinassa kuolee vuosittain yli 100000 ihmistä liikenteessä. Toisin sanoen, joka päivä Kiinassa kuolee liikenteessä 270 ihmistä ja tunnissa yksitoista. Sata ihmistä kuolee siis alle kymmenessä tunnissa. Kiinaan matkustavan ja Kiinassa asuvan riski kuolla liikenteessä on varmasti tuhatkertainen verrattuna riskiin a) saada sars ja vielä b) kuolla sarsiin. Jäitä hattuun ja maailma tuntuu heti turvallisemmalta. Matti Kinnunen Hangzhou, Kiina

Came to work late (just 28 minutes by bike!). At work reading "Documenting software architectures" and working on DIMUTI. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

We just took it easy and enjoyed life. Some nice food, some wine etc. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

I had sushi for breakfast and lunch. Dream came true! We went to dress market and then had lunch at Cafe Montmartre , which is a piece of France in Shanghai. We tried to have drinks in the rooftop bar in Peace hotel but there was a wedding going on there. Pity. Then we did some sightseeing and ended up via a Sichuan restaurant, a stupid and disgusting girl-bar to O'Malleyes, where Puaso was sitting! Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 7 In the evening we were in Shanghai with a couple of friends. She is flitght attendant and he is a boss in Otava . Nice to have them here in China for 2 days. We had dinner in one Tepanyaki-restaurant and then visited some bars like Cafe 1931 . I was back at Pujiang really early in the morning. 12-16 SE workshops, thinking. 9-12 Emails, SE discussion, work on Statistics Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 5 15-17 SE work 13-15 SE workshops 12-13 Quality discussions Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 11.5 19-22 Dinner at the best restaurant in HZ. Heh! 16-18.30 Misc tasks. btw 15 and 16 Discussion with Bas on quality, reading some articles 14-15 Discussion on VFI and statistic with Maunu and Maija Saukko. We agreed on what we present in Milan in December. Basicly the old ATM training material and short expl. on counters. 9-14 Se workhsops 7-9 Emails, Piping discussion etc. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 13 this is getting serious, but I managed to handle tens of delayed emails, which is useful. It is warmer here in the office than at home anyway. 16.15 - 20 Email handling, again discussion on PQII prontos and our working practices in general 15.45-16.15 Wrote a note on brokers. To Janne Makinen. 15-15.30 Discussion on DIMUTI with Kisu, emails, Twiki, 13-15 Workshops 12-13 Emails, discussion on PQ prontos 7-9 Course preparations, email on VFI statistics Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Working hours: 10 17-19 Emails, Statistics, etc 15-17 Course praparations 13-14 Discussions on PQII pronttos (Matti and Maunu) 9-10 Preparation for DIMUTI planning meeting Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".