Athens 2005
We decided to take our summer holidays a little early, this year. (Or rather, we took the decision last year). I thought we'd have KOffice 1.4 out of the door by April 1, and that this would be a safe time to book a holiday I guessed I would need by then. I did need the holiday, but it was clear my timing was quite a bit off.
I'd already warned the Krita developers that I'd slowly drop out of things during the first half of the Holy Week leading up to Easter. Orthodox Easter, of course... And when I came home from work Wednesday April 27 I didn't even have time to check my mail one last time.
I was already too late to have dinner before Church because we had a reception in honor of a defecting colleague at my work. Seeing that the new CEO seems to be changing the company from a maker of software to a provider of warm bodies with coding skills, my ex-colleague decided that instead of allowing the boss to skim off the profits of letting his body to the highest bidder, he'd better sell himself as dear as possible.
(And frankly, if this goes any further than I'm not sure I will look askance at incoming offers of regular employment... I'm an experienced Java, Python and C++ coder with all relevant extra skills (operating systems, shell, batch, xml -- whatever you want, I've probably dabbled with it. Dicom and Snobol, even.) I'm also a fairly decent project leader who's done requirements analysis, architecture, design and documentation on the side. The one thing I bar is being sent out to do two months of boring work for someone who pays by the hour. I deliver things, not hours of work.)
You know what? If I go on writing everything I want to write, this'll fill a complete page on Planet KDE on on the other aggregation pages that syndicate Fading Memories, and that wouldn't be polite. I'll use the old-fashioned expedient of making a static web-page of the rest, and linking to it. So, if you are interested in the account of the first few days of two weeks in Greece (full of human interest, acute observation of delightful details and what not), with more to come, hop over to http://www.valdyas.org/~boud/athens2005.html. I'll expand it over time, as I find time. Or not...