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For quite a large project we booked MySQL Enterprise Support. As always when working with 3rd party companies we needed to set up an NDA with them. Unfortunately MySQL germany is not able today to accept our standard NDA – they have to use the american version which allows MySQL to use everything their consultants do not „write down“, but „keep in their minds“. I’ve never seen such an NDA up today – and of course we could not accept that 😉

motionet is getting a year now, and it’s really great to see al these cool apps evolving we have developed and all the great projects we’ve done with our team. Unfortunately there’s always too few time to write about all the details, but yesterday was a really crazy day. It’s not always like that, but let me introduce to you my start in the week yesterday:

7:30: Gettin up, driving to Dusseldorf

9:00: Checking Emails, doing some planning/scheduling for the week

10:00: Discard an employee

10:30: Preparing PPT for a presentation on friday

12:00: Business Lunch at the korean restaurant, strategic evolvement of an employee

13:00: Developing mathematical solutions for a project, together with an university

14:00: job interview with a developer from Ukraine (unbelievable guy)

15:30: hiring him 😉

16:00: Email stuff, Projectmanagement in one of our key projects

19:00: Business dinner in one of the finest italian restaurants in dusseldorf, with some Saudi-guys for a huge project in middle-east

24:00: Going to bed, exhausted, but full of excitement

This was not a normal day, but it’s just great fun and satisfying, being able to do such a great work 😉

Since being in hospital in Sep 2007 it’s been my first short run again today – just half an hour down the rhine but boy, it felt that great! Especially in my new shoes… 😉

I went into Baidu in mid-November 2007 (300$) and was quite happy to see them rising nearly +80$ (+30%) during December. They now have fallen to 279 $ – not quite sure why. They were on „buy“ in the first week of 2008. I’ve read something about them in one of my feeds – can’t find the article again. Was it, that China is opening the internet more and more for Goog and friends? (Nasdaq)

Another stock I’m watching for quite a time is northern rock: after their ruin in Sep 207 they fell like hell: from 1157 p to 101 p for today. this morning I read an article that the billionaire Richard Branson (Virgin Group) is getting serious in paying back 24 billi. GBp to the Bank of England. I Somehow think this is a stock with potential – NR competence was in the emerging private-finance sector. (LSE)

Thx to whom it may concern 😉

Better keep your equipment running… 😉

Since we got the synchronous DSL in our office, we’ve set up an OpenVPN – I’m using tunnelblick on the Macbook and the OpenVPN GUI from the HS Esslingen for the Thinkpad. Simple to set up and works good.

…these guys are unbelievable…

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