I am dead tired but I feel that I must write something at the end of the week. I'm not feeling very coherent so I'm going to make some inconsistent sparse annotations.

Problem of the week - Leave application design.
Major Problem of the week - Christmas presents
Currently reading - Deception Point by Dan Brown
Best J2EE book out of a dozen - J2EE Bible by James McGovern. This is the first book of the bible series I ever liked.
Film watched today - Twisted (Review) nice suspense thriller starring Samuel L Jackson, Andy Garcia and a great Ashley Judd. 3 stars.
Freshly installed game - Need for speed 2
Winning Java IDE editor - IntelliJ for the great J2EE support it offers. Eclipse also has some good plug-ins for J2EE but mostly generate Xdoclet code which I'm not familiar with at the moment.
UML editor – Tried Poseidon v3.0 and after 2 hours editing and saving the program crashed and I lost all my work. Ditched it in favour of Visio 2003
Achievement of the week – Finished video edit for RAI program
Tragic event of the week - My mother's aunty died yesterday

Must visit links for the week
Our holiday in Malaysia - Nice pictures, travelogue and tips
Del.icio.us - Excellent links site but I think there's more to it.

This week I reflected about the effect of having two bosses at work. It takes some time getting used to the idea but after a while you start realising that you can try getting the best of both worlds. As the English say "Too many cooks spoil the broth", and in cases like this the broth is spoilt with their obvious conflict. As soon as conflict settles in then the way to go is to choose the right person for the right task to get what you want.

In line with this thought I was thinking about the way we think about people with whom we interact everyday. In a stable relationship the general impression is pretty static, however in tremulous relationships the love-hate level tends to vary depending on the waters. One time you agree with someone and think he's in the right and the next time he make something to completely set you off. I am now trying to identify the point at which the impression steadies itself around a stable point and to what extent that point is influenced by the person's actions.

Things that were missing from our video

• Beaches taken from the sea - All beach views are taken from inside the beach which has a lesser effect on the picture.
• Local people, faces and expressions – Don’t be shy to take these shots after all most locals are amused at having their pictures taken
• Shots from planes / buses / cars. It seems that we’re teleporting from one place to the other
• Airport shots - These make good introductions
• Think about how the scene will appear before you shoot
• Pay attention to the lighting and colour, they are the most important elements of the video and the most difficult to arrange.
• Lessen zoom because the camera shake is incredible at high zooms
• Learn how to use the tripod and use it.