Today I've been the first day at work after a one week break due to a cold. Never had this during my now more than 25 years of work. Once again a sign for getting older. *smile*

But the day started with good news: my German book about system programming with Google Go will be released on January, 24th. I really can't await to hold it in my hands. You can find more informations at http://www.dpunkt.de/buecher/3449/systemprogrammierung-in-google-go.html or http://amzn.to/erI6dO. A preview should be available soon. I hope you'll be satisfied when you're reading it.

Yesterday evening I had a nice event with my team and our customer (yep, the one I'm programming Smalltalk on GemStone/S for). First we had dinner with green cabbage, a typical local meal during the winter season. Then we started to bowl, no real contest, more just for fun. It has been real nice. Events like those enforce the tight coupling between our customer and us.