Lars Fløe Nielsen

Yet another day in Hong Kong

So, up at 5 o’clock in order to process the most necessary batch of mails as well as downloading the latest training materials before meeting up with Torben at the breakfast restaurant. I felt surprisingly fresh and seeing the sun rise over Hong Kong is a uplifting sight despite the heavy layer of fog and smog.

At around 8 we were down at the harbor to take the ferry over Wan Chai, - the Hong Kong river. We were the only two westerners amongst hundreds of locals, and when sitting on the boat looking at he very local boats sailing by, you cannot help getting the feeling of something very out of the ordinary. What a trip. Unfortunately it’s no more than 10 minutes before arriving on the other side with extreme traffic and smog.

We went to our new partner and did a training session. It’s quite interesting how such a day forms. Today, we did have major problems with installing the software at many different training PC’s. This is mostly, I think, when we train partners who have brought their own developer laptops, as in this case (where we naturally could not bring anything). Not that this always poses a problem, but developers tend to keep different configurations on their personal PC’s. This results in all kinds of potential hiccups when installing the software, for example security issues.

Well, we got it up and running, and then went on with the training, only with a few other strange minor problems such as Norton Antivirus interference (latest edition) with the software.

After 9 hours, we decided to stop, and now I’ve gotten home safe from the partner now and just need a few hours of work. It’s quarter to ten in the evening, and I’m getting somewhat tired. But I guess that’s how life is.

Tomorrow, I’m up again same time as today. Hope the day tomorrow will be just as good as today, though a bit more relaxed.