Jonas Beckman

I went running, and discovered it was hot today. Just a little wind, lots of sun and almost no clouds. Spectactular!

Running right across the street, I heard a band soundcheck in the park, saw a train come out of the tunnel and found my step up and down the first hills. Keeping my pulse slow, I ran past a field where 10 year old soccer-players trained for Hammarby, pride of Södermalm. Feeling very relaxed I reached the waterside. Everyone was out: young girls having noisy picknics, old couples enjoying the sun, runners running and dogs playing. Some boats were heading out towards the archipelago (the sound of their motors carried well across the water), while others were hauled out of the water by a giant crane and prepared for winter storage. The season is ending, and it’s ending well.

Afterwards I had some crispbread with shrimps and drank lots of water.

Dinner time: Aila is working, so I am going to some friends who promised me lots of fresh corn.

Back in the water today, and my swimming went well. Afterwards, I went to a very small Italian restaurant called Zucchero and ate a light but excellent meal. It was a warm day again, so I had my coffe outside and watched the late afternoon sun above the rooftops of Södermalm.

Aila was working at the annual Health Fair - I left a message on her phone, telling her how beautiful everything was.

Tomorrow I’ll answer some very nice mail I have received recently. But today I felt fragile and asocial, so I stayed low: no meetings, no cell phone, no mail.

I met Aila for dinner, we went to Little Persia and ate delicious Persian food. She is working a lot these days - it’s no surprise to me that her shiatsu practice is going well.

My cold is almost gone now, but tonight I will try to sleep early.

I had a good day at the Palace today, everyone seems to feel good about working right now. But I think it will get even better. And I just got the go-ahead to spend more time on research again.

I am on the verge of having absorbed a lot of new material - but I’m not quite there yet. And tonight I am tired: my cold is not quite gone yet, so I have very little energy.

There is so much work to do now, work that I really want to do.

I still have a lingering cold: I could work, but when I came home I fell asleep at once - and woke up for another “late-flip day”.

I got to see the results of some fairly recent work today: the first hundred of this season’s political proposals to the Swedish Paliament have turned into XML-documents and can now be used in the tracking and planning of the political process. The whole process is very smooth, so far. There was one small but annoying bug in the export script - but we tracked it down and had just enough time to fix the first documents before they entered the planning system.

Alwin got burned picking the worse of two ways to mix meat and hot oil. I’m glad to hear it didn’t turn out worse!

We didn’t get to see behind the curtain of Booknotes - Craig tells us why and shares some lessons. See you next time!

And Hal is getting into dialectics of subcultural expression. And pointed at Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward Tufte’s Principles.

Backupbrain posted My thoughts on Fray day 4. Hmmm… gave me something to think about.

It’s early evening, I’m still at work. Almost everyone has left our little palace. I’m refactoring some report code, thinking about a cleaner way to generate xml from existing object-structures.

Looks like everyone has been working really hard. And Garrret found out at midnight he needed to sleep. Wonder why?

So the BTC gallery will open later today (sometime late Sunday evening, Swedish time). Update: the gallery is now open!