Summer is here now

• Summer is here now. Even now (at 5pm) the temperature is 25C. In Finland this would be in the news, even in July. It is so arctic place.
• I picked my Chinese bike from Commons Place (or actually nearby). Nobody wants to steal it - it is too Chinese even for the criminals.
• I was reading my Feyerabend in the lobby of the office building and started to laugh aloud. The Chinese gave me that look. They do not know how fun philosophy is. They should try.
• 9-12 Meeting on Piping: HzSeMinutes2004x03x10xPipingPEMeeting.
• 12-13 The normal working meeting or lunch with BasVodde (fried noodles today...)
• 13-14 Meeting on Dimensioning with LiNa, JunruLi, HongqiangHuang, MaunuHolma.
• 14-15 Discussion on optizing FU rates automaticly with MaunuHolma. Now we know how to do that too. It seems to require some human intervention, but if we had a free mathematician here around, we could even do it automaticly. But unfortunately we do not have a free mathematician. Or have free - apply !
• 15-18 Meeting about requirements etc with more than 10 persons in Helsinki and MaunuHolma. We (I and Maunu) did one groupwork and invented concepts up-network and down-network, by which we can generate reports from the requirements managements system. It seemed trivial but it, surprisinly, was not.
• 18-19 Discussing with MaunuHolma on the future of HzSeTeam after we leave the building for good.
• Some quotes from Feyerabend (Conquest of Abundance)
  • " ... the real causes of incomprehension, which are quite ordinary, normal, run-of-the-mill inertia, dogmatism, inattentio, and stupidity" p 33
  • " This, incidentally, is the reason why the presentation of scientific results differs so drastically from what happens during the reserch, i.e., which people are still thinking, and gives such a misleading picture of it. " p 34, a thing worth remembering also here in Nokia, when improving processes etc.
• See also http://hangzhou.china.nokia.com/forum/hzrndforum/phpBB/index.php for some discussions.
• No dinner in the restaurant. Instead, Sirkku made some cross-kitchen stuff with rice. And we had some beer.
• I read the newest Economist (except the fashion survey).

Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".