So I have just got back from Beijing and it was really good. They seemed to clear up the pollution whilst I was there, going from a nasty cloudy mess to bright blue skies - helped by some rain on the last day.

I got some time to experience some more of Beijing at night, eating Scorpions, Centipedes and Snake (don’t try Centipede - it doesn’t taste so good and is twice the price of the other snacks) and I totally recommend trying Scorpion. Really. Hotpot was of course on the menu and as always was excellent.

The hotel was good, though I couldn’t find the gym and asking the people that worked there resulted in directions to some building down the street somewhere. Oh well hopefully will get better directions in Amsterdam where I will go next week.

Finally I have found the tilde on my Swedish Mac keyboard. Its hidden under Option-¨

What a stupid place to put it..

Well some links to books that I want to read ;-)

http://800ceoread.com/blog/archives/007183.html

“Competitive Strategy” by Michael Porter
“Execution” by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, and Charles Burck
“In Search of Excellence” by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman
“Good to Great” by Jim Collins
“The Effective Executive” by Peter Drucker

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735605351/

“Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art” by Steve McConnell

“The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable”

I am sure this list will get longer…

Just been installing Ubuntu 7.04 on Parallels for work, and its not as straight forward as it should be. Luckily there is a good tutorial over on simplyhelp.net.
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Sweden, originally uploaded by timc3.

So I have been back in Sweden almost a week now, but still no sign of my personal number. I went to the office about a month ago now, and all I can think of thats holding it back is that everyone in Sweden has been on holiday.

The same as in Norway, it is popular to all go on vacation at the same time - what seems to be a mixture of making the most of the season with the best weather and also a hangover from old factory days. I have yet to decide whether I think that its a good idea or not, but I would like my personal number already!

Kastellholmen - 249.jpg, originally uploaded by timc3.

Going back to Stockholm in two days, I can hardly wait. It feels like a long time that I have been in Sweden and I hope I haven’t missed the whole Scandinavian summer!