I have the chance to spend some weeks in the apartment of my friend and colleague Russell Dyer in Milan, Italy. I’ll be living and working here for couple of weeks and tour around for 10 days in central Italy later. This is not my first visit to Italy. I was already in Sorrento and Naples before with MySQL when we had a DevCon there. It is my first time though that I have to buy bread, milk and groceries in Italian shops and try to figure out what they said!

I went to the Pearl Jam gig in Berlin. It happened in a parc called Wuhlheide in the Kindl-Bühne. Apparently the venue has a capacity of 17000 people. And it was good indeed! The first thing that got my attention is that Pearl Jam played songs from Riot Act (Save You, Green Disease) which they didn’t do in Antwerpen. Or maybe I missed something in the excitement. Also, Eddie gave two speeches read from paper in German: one was about the good weather, which was just unnaturally perfect; and one was for his friend from the Ramones, to which he dedicated a song.

I set out Monday morning to Perros-Guirec, a village at the west coast of France, west from St-Malo. We have an important meeting with MySQL customer and I had to be there. Everything was carefully planned, I had my tickets and I knew when to leave.. on time.. Well, it didn’t go the way I expected.. So I set out at 05:30 to the train station of Aschaffenburg to Darmstadt.

I found out that when you wait for one particular sushi to come by the belt, you’ll eat lots of others.. And when the one you waited for at last comes: you’re stuffed (and broke too). Moral: Don’t set you mind on one sushi, enjoy them all! (Btw, I was waiting for a Tamago and my friends were making fun of me.. cry)

Today I tried again to find some solution to get my appointments organized. I bought a Palm T|X begin July hoping it will help me: it did not. I have 2 Mac’s. I use iCal right now to keep some order in my hectic, lazy life. iCal on itself is probably the best tool around because it is S.I.M.P.L.E.! Damn! I tried Now Up-To-Date, Daylight and Palm OS Desktop. Try to make an event spanning days in both.