The weather is absolutely wonderful today. The sun is bright and warm and the view over the bay where I work is absolutely stunning a day like this. It is hard to bring yourself to do some serious work.

My small wooden boat that I tarred this last weekend is constantly nagging my mind and I want to get into water soon. If it weren’t for all these annoying deadlines at work I would take the rest of the day off and paint the hull.

The project I am working on is very interesting though. I am integrating the billing system at Vodafone Sweden with WebMethods and other systems. The billing system is written in an obscure but rather fast 4GL language called ProIV. The integration solution is a heavily multithreaded C applicaton with plugins that communicate with various systems natively. It is great fun with many technical difficulties, but the wonderful spring weather and my boat not yet ready for the sea stops me from enjoying it fully.