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Autumn is here. I did not dare to cycle, since it is raining cats and dogs. I took bus instead. Finally, I even managed to get Travel Card . Long discussion about the state of the R&D and Nokia in general with MaunuHolma. Sari Baldauf is in HangzhouOffice right now. I hope Maunu has an opportunity to ask Sari for some ideas how Nokia Networks is going to make some really enhancements in quality. The current campaing, which states that "quality is our business" is a disgrace. It is so stupid! As if we could make better quality just by hanging out posters, when we are not even using the standard industrial practices. What a shame. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Serious cycling began: I cycled 75 minutes with 80% of the full speed this morning. Really refreshing and should help me in reaching my health goals. There are really nice places to cycle in Helsinki: I cycled by up the riverside of Vantaa, then through the Central park (forest) and via quiet suburban streets. Nice and rather safe. I was totally wasted when I got back home in the evening. I am not as fit as I used to be when I was younger. We walked aroung the Töölönlahti and checked a couple of menus along the way. The 2nd part of my IIP. Since I got into MIT, I do not have much time to work here anymore. This is due to my extensive holidays: maybe 50 days still this year. So, I will work until 15th of October and then take a 2-month holiday... We removed a couple of tasks from my STIP. I will have a 25-minuted walk in the afternoon - just to get my brains to work again. One must not stay in the office building the whole day. It is not good for humans to do so. It seems tha...

A romours has it as follows: the HR are career map development project intended to get rid of the "chief engineer"-jobtitles. Reason: engineers are not leading anything, managers are those who lead. Incredible but so telling attitude in this company. Anyway, some parts of Nokia R&D were so much agains this idea that the current career map still includes "chief engineer" and the like. The career map is a bit strange: it seems that "chief engineer" is more demanding than "program manager". See also the Word-attachment: it has the titles in columns, but the headings of the colums are not there. I think the heading are the job grades (JG), which would indicate that the "chief architect" has JG 12, which is the same as senior program manager has. Strange. I cycled to work and back to home. Nice weather still. The doctor measured my blood pressure, which was quite high. So, I panicked and bought a bloodpressure meter OMRON M4 for my p...

I cycled to and from work. Really nice weather since I managed to escape the thunderstorm in the evening. I was hacking in my mind with the performance modelling tool. It is quite well developed already. I held a peripathetic walking meeting with MaunuHolma. I called him and walked around the nearby bushes and forests while talking. It is always nice to talk to someone, who has though about large scale product development a lot. I cooked Italian risotto for the first time since coming back from China. I used some preserved squids, which made the risotto really good and exotic. I think I will cook this risotto to some selected friends too. It is a bit too excotic for those who do not love squid, but what the heck: they must stay away! Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

My godson´s 2-year birthday party: too many people and so many kids. I escape to the balcony. I got to lend a book about the architectural wonders of Boston. Nice buildings there - especially I would like to stay in the Bakers-house designed by Alvar Aalto. No excercise. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

I spent the morning as many others did by watching the Olympic Games at TV. Sport is rather entertaining and provides also an excellent excuse for not doing something more productive. I decided to check how the poor people shop and walked to the Lidl-supermarket in Pasila. It takes 20 minutes one-way, so in case of acute poorness I can still managed. I did not find the shop good: most of the groceries were not so delicious looking. The shop itself was not very pleasant and the guards were intrusive and ugly. I assume I will never go to Lidl-again. Siwa and Valintatalo, which are near my home are good and cheap enough for me. And the shopping-hall and open-air markets are not far away either. I played some pinball in Linnanmäki. I got 2 replays (6 total). Not bad. In the evening, we were invited to Swedish-Finnish greyfish party at Tero Norkolas. The greyfish were good (Chinese) and all the drinks were too many, but somehow, with unhuman willpower, I managed to stay rather sober unt...

It is still warm. I took bus to Pajamäki and walked from there to the office. It takes 32 minutes. In Perkkaa one can only see mothers, babies, and dogs. All men are missing. Maybe they are here in Säterinportti hacking away... I started to write PerformanceEvaluationToolStrategyTask. I assume it is now time even for me to start doing something real here. I got my salary (net about 3100 euros) today. I will have a beer or two to celebrate it today. No news from MIT. They have sent a package to me, but I have not received it. I am getting inpatient. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Sirkku´s birthday: we celebrated by having Thaifood at dinner and watching "Fahrenheit 9/11" in Bristol. Really good movie, but I knew most of the things already: most of them are in Paul Krugman´s and Chomsky´s recent books, which I read in China. Nothing specific at work. Just trying to get something done and thinking about product development. It is so quiet here: I just sit here all alone and the others somewhere are taking care of acute crisis. I think this is so nice. Cycled to work. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Cycled to work. Nothing specific: a meeting on effort estimation in architecture work. We should be better at it, but I do not know how. Sirkku´s relatives visited us in the evening (and I missed a concert by Pelle Miljoona). Some wine. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

I visited TeroTaskila , JariIsokangas , and SinikkaSarkkinen in Tampere. Now I know which kind of tools they would like to have. I enjoyed free time with my friend Kössi by the rapid with a few beers. We also had dinner at Knossos . Great food there. I travelled by train to Tampere. From Helsinki I took the Pendolino, 1st class. It was not worth the price. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

I walked from Mäkkylä. Nothing specific at work. In the evening I travelled to Tampere and spent the evening with my mother. She is a bit sad because I will move to USA (i.e. abroad). Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Idling at home for most of the day: wathing Formula 1 and Olympics, fixing bikes, sleeping and reading "Software craftmanship". Sushi-dinner at Kabuki with OlliFinni and his family (and Sirkku, of course). Excellent, not bad at all and not even too expensive, either. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Mostly idling at home. I walked to the Akateeminen and bought the new Foreign Affairs , which had some good articles about China. I read them in Cafe Engel . Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Still happy - even more than before. Sun shines and 23C. OlliFinni gave me and my book a lift to the office. Now my library is here. Check it and learn something new! Installing Cradle tooks some time, but now it is running in my computer (or so I think). There are some manuals for me to read before start hacking away with Cradle. It seems to be a good tool. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Unpacking continue from 11am to 7pm, but then the home was ready and we were able to leave to Sea Horse to meet some friends from Boston, USA. It is nice to meet some persons from Boston. Milton has even Bsc from MIT. He seems to have similar values as I do. After enjoying the delicious fried Baltic herrings, we returned to our home (5 persons) and continued celebrations with some nice Prosecco from Italy. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Slowly, slowly, but still so happy, exalted even, I got out of bed. Hard day: moving friends stuff from old home to the new one from noon to 4pm and then drinking his beers. Later, at home we managed to continue to unpack our stuff. It started to look quite desperate. But happiness helped here too. Sunny, 27C, sweating like a big pig. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

I met an old couple from San Francisco this morning. They had flown from SF to Zurich (Switzerland) via Germany, Check, Hungary, Austria and Baltic states (in some order, check the map) to Helsinki, Finland. They were on the way to the airport. I cycled with them to the airport. Nice couple, really skinny and brown after cycling so much. I was late from my IIP - not very clever thing to do. But MikaLehmusto had invented good incentive targets for me. So, now I know what I should do in order to get some bonus-money. Incredibly, this seems to have something to do with the good of the products (RNC, MGW, IPA). So, I came late and stayed lated. At 8 pm I got this email Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

Cycling to the office - some 22C, sun. 34 minutes. Discussion on whether NRC is suitable for making some tools is still ongoing. I spent the day reading some material, installing Cradle and discussing. The new CD by www.sonicyouth.com Sonic Youth is rather nice. In the evening idling at home - we managed to unpack some stuff. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

The first CA-meeting. Nice people with extensive experience - now I feel young, in China I always felt so old. Excellent! A meeting on one "Performance SOP". It seems that I should write another version of my "Designer´s guide to performance in IPA" from 2001. Why not I was too tired to do anything productive in the evening. I managed, however, to read some 50 pages of "Hullu työtä tekee" and the newest Economist. So the who evening was not in vain, I assume. I tested the web-browser in my mobile phone 6820a. It is next to useless: slow, the screen is too small, and the phone crashes too often. I would never buy/use this phone with my own money. Long discussion with MaunuHolma on documentation etc. I took train to the office. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

I cycled to the office - it is so much fun, 23C and sun shining. The local radio-shop in Porthaninkatu is the place to get electronics fixed. Really nice old men working there. Reasonable prices. We received our things from China. It took exactly 2 months to get them. Now our home is full of boxes. We have no places to put all the things we now have. Too bad. At least we have to buy some new book-selves. I got 3 new books today: Discovering Your Career in Business The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back "Hullu työtä tekee" by Juhani Seppänen I got the www.iht.com Internation Herald Tribune for the first time delivered straight to my home. It is one day old, but still it relieves my anxiety - I feel more like member of the world community. www.helsinginsanomat.fi HS is so local - but I do subscribe to it too. Other magazines I substribe to are: Economist, New Internationalist, Harward International review, and maybe some other. I do not exactly remember. Any...

Rather nice now that most Nokians are back here in the office. Nice to meet my new workmates and even my boss! A boss makes one´s day. Some emailing about "RNC tool strategy". Some work on the seating plan. Reading some articles. Tired. Sun shines. I stayed in the office way too late leaving only after 6pm. Almost noboby works here after 4.30 pm. I found a new route to home: bus 205 to Kamppi and from there by metro. It took 50 minutes (including shopping some food). One speedy jeans guy tried to enter our house - I had to use the back door. This is how living is Kallio is like. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".

We visited the Church of 3 crosses by Alvar Aalto in Vuoksenniska. Marvellous building. Back in Helsinki vary late. Alun perin julkaistu koosteessa "Diaries 2003 Q1".