If you want to get in the right Easter mood, then hit the chicken. 😉

I’m through the first week at my new place of work! I’ve been well received, and my new colleagues have been nice to me. But still it has been a tough week, getting to know the new place, all the new systems and a lot of new faces. Although I’ve already got my first larger assignment, most of the week has been used to familiarize myself with the firm.

The snow has turned into rain. Sigh! But someday the sun might burn through the rainy clouds. One can only hope!

When I started this blog almost a year ago, I also got the chance of adding more dynamic content to my website. One of those dynamic things was a small plug-in to show a random piece of text for each new visit or reload at the web page. Being somewhat fond of quotations, I found this plug-in to be just what I needed to place a random quote on this blog. Only quotes that are clever, intelligent, funny or otherwise thought provoking are able to find a place here – so for each quote I use, there may be 20 I haven’t found adequate. And yet I have now reached 1000 quotes in my collection. As always: if you want to read some of the quotes, you can find it at the column in the right side of this blog (or at the bottom, if you read this blog on a PDA or phone with internet access). If you don’t fancy quotations, then keep your eyes attached to the blog posts instead. 😉

Somewhere between yesterday and today, we had to turn the clock one hour forward because of a lousy invention called summer time – or Daylight savings time. I think it was Hitler who thought of the idea first, so when everybody had forgotten about him invading other countries, killing a lot of people, and persuading Ferdinand Porsche to build the Volkswagen Beetle, there would still be something we could hate him for!

Okay, I know the idea is older than Hitler, but that doesn’t make me like the idea any better!

The official reason for doing this is to be able to work when the sun is up – to be more productive. Of course this is pure nonsense and one would have to be a little stupid to believe this. First: if we really should be following the sun, then it’s not nearly enough to switch time two times a year. Second: a lot of people gets disruption in their sleep patterns because of this, and actually gets less productive.

It’s Monday. It’s the 13^th. It’s cold outside. And I haven’t anything remotely interesting to write about! Sigh!

Each year International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world as a way to recognize women’s struggles. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. The history: in 1910 a “Women’s Day” was established in Copenhagen. The year after, International Women’s Day was marked for the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.

Go girls! 🙂

I went by the chief today to quit my job! Last week I found a new one, I might like a little better.

It’s still something with servers and so on, but the new job is more about designing systems, where the old one is about keeping existing systems running.

I just saw on the Internet, that a microbiology team from University of Arizona tested a dozen office surfaces including the bathroom. The scientists found that phone receivers had 25,000 bacteria per square inch, while toilet seats had only 49 bacteria per square inch. Talk about calling in sick!