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Sirkku did not propose me! Hmm, what should I think of this I spend the whole day at home preparing for the GMAT-test. Most of the exercises are just trivial. The test should not present any real Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Raining in the afternoon. I took it quite easy by just reading at home. We have lunch in the La defence restaurant in Wen San Lu. Not good place but the food was acceptable. In the evening JaniRahkonen threw a party at his home. Most of the expats were there and it was quite fun. We used a variety of drugs: nicotin (cigarettes, cigars, snuff (not me but the others)), alcohol (beer and Finnish (!) vodka) and I assume someone also used caffein. It felt good and all the worries went away. Even the rain did not bother us at all. It is a pity that current internation prohibition of most the usable drugs prevents us from using the drugs which would be most suitable for the occasion. See e.g. "Forces of Habit" by Coutrwright for the history of drugs and their role in shaping the modern society (and nature and trade) in the last 400 years. It is fundamental. See also "Out of it"-book. Back at how quite late, but not early. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries ...

Nice weather. I again cycled to the office. Nice! The Chinese find it very amusing to see me cycling with my new bike, helmet and only with a jeans and T-shirt. But it is impossible to wear more clothes. Even the jeans are too much - I intend to use shorts soon. 9-10. I explained my idea about Dimuti to MaunuHolma. See got it, at least partially and suggested improvements. This means that it is not completely flawed. 10-11 HZ IS-meeting. Strange, but luckily short one. 11-12 Dimuti thinking. Also roles. 12-13 Lunch with BasVodde. Fried rice as always and some good discussions. It is refreshing to sparr with Bas. 13-14.30 HzSeMinutes2004x02x27xStatistics . 14.30-17 Hacking, thinking, discussing this and that. Taking it easy on purpose to let thoughts come. And coming they are! I will end the week by having a beer or two in Commons Place. I invited everyone. Let's see who turn up. The bugbear moved on top on my phone. He may even answer your calls! I read document about mes...

Again: nice weather and cycling. Strange things happening in the street, but many Chinese smiled at me. It makes me happy. 10-12 Discussing with MaunuHolma on HzSeMinutes2004x02x26xMetMetDimEtUserview and on UserView documentation. Some new ideas, as always when we discuss on something. Lonely lunch, fried rice. 13-15 Working on DimutiTask: MattiOnDimutiFuture and also writing MattiOnArchitectRequirements due to request by PetriVesterinen. 15-17 Meeting with Helsinki Traffic team on e.g. DimutiTask. See HzSeMinutes2004x02x26xPlanForDimWorkshop . Now going home. No time to write more. The need of an assistant is getting bigger all the time. British discussion about the war in Irag is getting all the time more interesting. Read the news! I know how to improve Dimuti a lot. It is so simple! We (me and Sirkku) had lunch in the "Crab-restaurant". And some beer, too. The food in this restaurant has always been excellent and it is dirt-cheap. I recommend it to everyone. ...

I cycled to work. So nice. It takes 44 minutes with the new bike, which btw is already broken... Meetings from 9-10.30 (ChenGuodong's tasks), 11-12 JunruLi's tasks of DimutiTask UI part, 13-15 about DimutiTask and later 17-18 about PipingTask. In addition we did some commenting about the documentation structure with MaunuHolma. I also commented extensively on the new seatplan for the HZ. It is so fun! For lunch I have fried rice and icecream. I did not had my normal lunch companion BasVodde with me. Boring. I also updated my plans of DC-domain division and sent it to SamiTilander. Also some email discussion on MattiOnCommunication. JyrkiInnanen supports my ideas, HannuVaanenen refutes them with byrocratic argumentation, which I of course reject. Weather quite nice. Some 15 degrees. I could cycle with just my T-shirt on. The Chinese seems to find that a bit odd. No news about the Pentagon report I quotes earlier. We will go the Hangzhou Tasha (? ) to spend our coupons ...

Still hacking too late in the evening. Working, some. See the HzSeDiary2004 . Some meetings. Lunch with BasVodde (fried rice, spring rolls) and lots of furious discussion about the fact that the mediocre way of working is spreading. Or at least I see that happening. Meetings also in the afternoon. I received a few books from Amazon: "Good hotel guide to continental Europe", "Devil's disctionary", "Forces of habit" (a study on the history of drugs) and "Fortune favours the bold" ( about globalisation). Now I need to find time to read them. Quite unproductive day. Some interesting mail-discussion about the future and also on some technical issues like RSMU performance and DIMUTI in A43. I cycled back home. THe new bike is really fun to ride - it has some rudimentary suspension too. Many Chinese find it amusing that a tall lao wai rides this kind of ancient bike. They pat me on shoulder, which I find quite nice. Sirkku made some simple d...

I am a bit terrified: again one new day full of meetings. Where can I find time to write all the papers and analysis I intend to write. I need a secretary or several. Winston Spencer Churchill had two since he only slept 4 hourt per day and worked 20 hours a day. Or maybe I just need more delegation or a brainwash-course in time management. Why is it so that if you are a manager, you have more access to secretaries How come the working time of a manager is more valuable than that of a system architect Tell me, please! Or, why do we have so few secretaries in Nokia, especially in China Having more of them would reduce the work load of the main designers. But I know, we have the upper limit for the number of personnel, not for the cost of the personnel (or lower limit for the efficiency). But it may be, of course, that having a secretary would not make my work any faster. Hmm, I am outsmarting myself here. And all this is plain stupid. Forgive me. I will have at least 13 meeting...

Really lazy day. I just stayed at home and in then neigbourhood doing next to nothing. I did, however, write a letter to the editor of HS pointing out that the ex-prime minister of Finland, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, is trying to avoid the responsibilities all politicians have. Let us see whether they publish my note. I was a bit not-that-serious. Usually they publish my rantings. We had dinner in some restaurant-cum-clothesshop neat our place. The food was not impressive. It was trying to be Western. All Western food in China has been a disappointment so far, but we still continue trying. Not that clever. We bought some books: a picture book book about the Korean War, one book about SW architecture etc. Bookshops are getting better. Sirkku pointed out that it was she (her , I lost my grammar...) who started my current interest in Feyerabend and Feynmann. Now I have written that too. All credits to Sirkku, who is professional philosopher. I only have Master of Arts from theoretical phil...

I slept long, until 9.30 am. About 9 hours and I am fresh again. The weather was really nice and I had to get out. So, I decided to walk to the office to collect my new bike. It took 1h40minutes (10km). I read a story of the Chinese man called XXX (in Guardian Weekly), who was selected in the local government in some elections a few years ago. He has been using legalistic tactics in opposing the misdeeds some politicians have performed (corruption, rigginh elections etc). This lead me to think about forms/strategies of resistance/revolution in general. I can see at least the following general strategies: Open confrontation by military force (e.g. Mao, Lenin, Castro, Boxer rebellion, Frech revolution, ANC, militias in USA, ETA, IRA, ... ) Civil disobedience (e.g. Gandhi, ex eastern Europe, South-Afcica (ANC), ...) Legalism (Finninsh in the 19th century, some Chinese now, USA (I sue you. Let's sue the government. 2nd amendement), ...) Satire (ex Eastern Europe) All these st...

A bit hard to wake after 4.5 hour sleep. But I am so ful of energy and ideas! I took taxi to work office and read Feyerabend the whole time. He is so fascinating. Also his ideas are fascinating. I have found my old love in philosophy of science again. It is getting warm. 9-10 Meeting witn MaunuHolma and YanDezheng () 10-12 Meeting on PipingTask (HzSeMinutes2004x02x20xPiping), I as secretary (as usual) 10.30 I wrote a note on architecture and documentation and processes: MattiOnDocumentsProcesses. It is so fun to create concepts, discuss about technical problems, read emails, write notes and diaries and draw on the white board simultaneously . Then I really feel like doing something. Just sitting in a meeting without doing several things at the same time is torture , and should be prohibited by UN. Even mandatory requirement to sit, not stand and walk during meetings is torture and also against human nature and also decreases our creativity. 12-13 Discussions on quality wit...

We have now lived 1 year in our flat! We have used 30 kWh electricy per day. Motto of the day: "Anything goes - there are no rules in science or in R&D! Any rule of discovery would limit ourselves". 9-11 Hacking, thinking about discussion database. 11-12 Meeting on premises, but the meeting was late. We had another with BasVodde. Own meeting is better! At least faster argumentation and even some ridicule. Bas had some good ideas. 12-13 Working lunch with BasVodde 13-15 Meeting on HzSeMinutes2004x02x19xDimutiIWS1. Good work! 15-15.30 Meeting on System Startup instrumentation. Problem solved by the group! My brains work still even with so few hours of sleep. 15.30-16 Discussing with HannuLeskinen on organization etc. 16-17 Emails, diaries, etc. Sirkku is in Shanghai. I will go to Commons Place and have a beer or two. I did not go to Commons. I walked with MaunuHolma to Baochu Lu and had a lonely dinner there. I had one beer. I watched one DVD ("A bridge to...

Motto of the day: "Why should one argue , when one can use _ridicule_". I agree! Sirkku was a bit afraid of how I will apply this. She thinks I am use ridicule quite enough already. But can one really use it too much I got bored of staying at home. I should have - I am not well yet! Took bus to work. K199 is a bit faster than 66, but it could be 2 times faster with some trivial, elementary traffic rules. But maybe the local dictators are not powerful enough to enforce traffic rules. They have lots of time to police the internet, not the streets. 10-12 Statistics meeting. 12-13 Working lunch with BasVodde. 13-14 Commenting the current seating plan, DIMUTI UI-plan by JunruLi etc. Writing a note on MattiOnTTransOrder etc. Many small things just to keep the brains warm. 14-15 Developing the criteria for detecting whether somebody has technical vision. 15-16 Reading meeting minutes, discussions with PetriJappila etc. So many things in one day. And writing more than 3 page...

We woke up in time to enjoy a long and not-so-healthy breakfast in WTC. I even had an omelette. Rest of the day I spent sleeping, watching DVDs and after 7 pm surfing in the net. From DVDs I learned how much damage incompetent medling in minor details by the bosses (over the expert views) can cause. Also it is clearly harmful to keep unnecessary things secrets. This is true also in Nokia. I am still waiting for strategy update for RNCd and HZ. The current ones are just outdated and ridiculous. I am a bit surprised how our management cannot even get strategies on paper. They seems to use their time medling with minor issues and also fulfilling not-so-intelligent orders from above. We will see the results - already now we are not making any profit! And it will get worse, because the margins in the industry are getting smaller whereas our way of product development is getting all the time more expensive. And still there is no sense of urgency, no sense of needing inventions etc. Strange...

Motto of the day: "Elän parasta aikaa" See HzSeDiary2004 Terrible flu coming. I am losing my voice, it is hard to speak. Cough, running nose, feeling hot. I will be absent on Tue. Otherwise OK day. I took taxi to work and will ride my new bike to home. I hope my body can take it. There was an electricity black-out in our house in the evening. We had a coupon with which we could stay one night in WTC. It solved the problem. It was nice just to take taxi to the 5-star hotel, get in the room, take shower and order dinner from room service and then just watch TV (BBC!!!) and read some magazines. It is strange how fast time flies: on 18.2.2003 we left WTC for our current home. My flu was a nuisance in the evening. I wrote a note on technology transfer: MattiOnTechTransfer. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Idling at home, lunch in the nearest restaurant (potatoes, broccoli, and yellow tuna fish). I walked to the Ego market to buy a battery for my camera. The battery is as expensive as my new bike. In the evening we visited the opening of art exhebition by Arvo Brune. I bought one huge painting/work of art. And one smaller by some woman (Charlotte ). I will be a mesenate! I have no idea where to put the large work of art in Finland. Some beer and snacks in Shamrock, which sucked as always. Commons Place rules. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

We (me and Sirkku) intended to participate in common visit to see the blossoming blums, but we were too early. So, we walked by ourselves. We saw the blums and whole bunch of Chinese looking at them and having picnics. Finally, we found our way to the hills. It was quite a steep uphill to climb, but the views from there are worth the climb and loss of breath. I had some problems with my hearth, but I think they are mostly stress, not exercise related. We walked all the way to the North peak and then down. Some nice girls wanted to take a photo of them and us. It was fun. They were so cute and small. We had lunch in the Japanese in Qing Chun lu. Not too good and quite expensive. I bought a bike - a traditional Phoenix! It is so sturdy. In the evening I just idled. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Good news: A42 start-up improvements (by TapioPehkonen, TeroVenetjoki and me) are a success. We decrease the start-up time by 50%. Almost no Prontos. Great. Best possible feedback I can get. But it was hard. First I wrote an A-Pronto stating that "ATM-messaging is not suitable for distributed systems" and proposed two alternatives: replacing ATM or writing the start-up SW from anew. Of course, the managers did not believe me, they though that they know better or at least that they should get the credit. So, they started a project, which took 5 months and ended up in with the same conclusion. Or not quite: it ended up with at leat 30 proposal. Then I and Tero dictated what to do and together with Tapio did it. The manager got fired! That's what happens when you try to outsmart me! I do not recommed trying to outsmart me! Not for anyone ... Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

9 hours. Still too much. Working too late does not pay. I was too tired to really do anything (but send emails...) Morning: working on documentations (and HR jazz cafe) Afternoon: meeting with JyrkiInnanen and Maunu.Holma about future issues. Also traffic engineering meeting. I walked to Intime store and took taxi to home. Nice weather. Lunch at Chin Chin vege-place with PetriJappila and MariaAiraksinen . Tired, I went to bed early. No dinner. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

11 hours ! Too! Quote of the day. Paul Auster says of his work as writer. "with is that somehow I think that by living my life as a writer, I am living my life to the fullest. Even if I have a day when I sit there crossing out sentences, tearing up pieces of paper and have advanced not one jot, I can still stand up from my chair and say, "Well, I've given it my best". And if you can say that at the end of every working day, you feel like there's some reason to go on living." I agree. I think this the only real way of working. 9-12 Discussion with MaunuHolma on documentation. I also wrote something to HR JazzCafe about management books 12-13 Work lunch at Mao/Army-restaurant (11 Finns and 1 Dutchman). 13-14 Working on documentation structure with MaunuHolma 14-15 Meeting on documentation: HzSeMinutes2004x02x11xDocumentation . We are now really enthusiastic about this issue. We are also proceeding so well, we understand so fast more and more about t...

Working hours: 10h (2 too much..., no sense at all) I managed to get to work, but I am still quite weak. Hard to walk, somewhat easier to think but then again some messy thinking coming via email from Helsinki was able to make me feel ill, not sick though. Piping meeting in the morning. I took notes, as always: HzSeMinutes2004x02x10xPipingConcepts. Afternoon: meeting with JyrkiInnanen on SeIntersiteMeetingPeriods. See HzSeMinutes2004x02x10xInterSitePlanning We also discussed one hour about system architecture documentation with Maunu. I have some notes on paper. I also discussed on MattiOnLibIfForStatistics with Han Guanghua and Wei Jianhui. I managed to explain my idea with their help. Good! Meeting with MikaLehmusto on organization etc. No notes. I also applied for 3 jobs today. I must see what Nokia has to offer. Maybe it has something no good, hard, and interesting to offer that I change my long term plans. Let's see. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 200...

Some nasty virus invaded me. I had to stay at home and sleep. In the evening I read a book about Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend. It is a collection of their letter correspondence and some essay. Really worth reading. I began to feel even more that I simply have to go back to academia. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Most of the day at home reading and writing and surfing the net and sleeping. Lunch at Xianese restaurant nearby. I bought an grip exercise tool from the army shop. It is too weak, breaks down in few days. Or maybe I am too strong. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Lunch at Hawking-restaurant in the old town. It is one of the nicest restaurants in Hangzhou. We had stinky-tofu soup, which was not bad. We also visited the museum of Chinese medicin. The house, in which the museum is, is more interesting than the exhibition. No dinner. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

VP-piping meetings from 10-15. See HzSeMinutes2004x02x06xPipingTraffic 15-17 Meeting with Helsinki people on documentation 18-24 Dinner in Snakerestaurant with Mika, Katja, Henri, Kari, Tuula, Maria, Lassi, Sirkku, Juha, Pasi, Anne, Heikki. Excellent food. See also the video at \\hzfil001\groups1\R&D\SE\Misc\Matin in Hangzhou. Really fun, and then some drinks at our home. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Motto: "Simple problems are not worth my time" Nice weather. I walked 20 minutes before taking a taxi. Sun shines, a few degree plus. Some exercise in the morning keeps depression at bay. I had some Chinese buns for breakfast. 9-10 Thinking about technology transfer and writing an email/suggestion to the responsible persons. I also visited the lab. 10-12. Thinking about dimensioning ( "design, evaluation, and testing of configuration variants inside the contraints defined by system architecture") with Maunu. See MattiOnDimutiDimensioningOrg for some notes. 13-17 See HzSeTeamDiary2004 . Sun is still shining at 3 pm. Excellent. AnttiHeimonen says that their technology transfer plans are quite similar to my ideas. Good for them! And for the whole Nokia! Sirkku says that the Starbucks next to Shanghai Art Museum is fancy. The view reminds her of the central park of New York. Even though I think that Sbucks sucks, I may visit this one. I also worked a little o...

The cleaning lady did not come. I was waiting until 9.15am. She should come on Friday. Sirkku in Shanghai. Morning: discussions with MaunuHolma, MikaSeppanen and HongqiangHuang and even with MaikkiVanhanen . Some spring rolls for lunch. I walked 25 minutes. It refreshed my brains. 13-14.30 HzSeMinutes2004x02x04xDimensioningWeekly 15-18. Meeting on A43 documentation with EspooOffice personnel. We (me and MaunuHolma) had not done our homework. Bad boys, us! Anaway, after some hot discussion we end up with some kind of agreements. Too long day! I called my brother. He has a stupid boss, who does not allow my brother to take vacation before 1.5. This means that my brother may not be able to visit HZ anymore! I had lonely dinner at "Snake restaurant". It has opened after renovation. Food is as good as before and the owner as happy to see me. I am happy to see/meet him. We will have bigger dinner there on Friday, at least 10 persons. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa ...

I took taxi to office. I felt lazy. 9-10.15 Meeting on RsmuTask Rest of the day solitary thinking about several issues. Lunch at Chi Chin. Afternoon: shopping for digital camera with Heikki and Juha Kamppuri. I bought Pentax Optio S4, which is small enough. Dinner at "Crab restaurant" with Sirkku, Heikki, and Juha. I bought also 6 CDs Sirkku bought glasses. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

I cycled to the office. It was not too warm outside. Check MattiKinnunenFitness2004. I will cycle back and also visit the monkey park outdoor gym facilities. 9-10 Preparation for the day 10-11 Weekly SE meeting: HzSeMinutes2004x02x09xToDoWeekly 11-12,13.30-17 Working on SE-issues. See HzSeDiary2004 12-12.30 Team lunch in Chin Chin, the fake restaurant. 17-18.30 Meeting on requirements management arranged by Tero Auranen: MattisMinutes2004x02x02ReqManagement Still some sleeping difficulties. It may be mostly due to excessive playing of Triple Pop with the phone. Or then some stress. Cycling and excercise should help. Bird flu is spreading. N-Korea is testing chemical agents with political prisoners. Some explosions here and there. Normal stuff. But what will USA do with N-Korea. It has WMD, a dictator etc. Should USA attack But that would be not so good, since they could loose more own troops! Place your bets! A bit lazy feeling, hard to write in English or even in Finnish. I...

I woke up too early, about 5 am. Too bad. Fortunately I got some sleep from 7-11. Some stress is hounting me. I should find ways of relaxing. Maybe cycling would do. We went to buy baquettes in C4 and then to furniture market to two office chairs. I fixed my bike and tested it. I also had some gym exercise in the Monkey park. Lunch at the Sichuan near C4. No dinner. Nice weather, it seems spring is coming. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".