I'm at the office on this Saturday afternoon dead tired after a morning of intense Christmas shopping. I'm writing this post in IntelliJ just in case our manager passes around and stares at the monitor as usual. This post will look like one big large comment. I even included it in comment tags for the atmosphere.

This week we started seriously coding the leave application system and considering that my mate hasn't programmed for the last two years we're on a good pace. This program has become like the end of the world because everybody is pestering and asking about it, with our manager almost forcing us to work overtime in order to finish it. I really don't believe this is the real reason but anyway we're doing our best.

Anyway, enough of coding blabber and on with the events of the week. Last Thursday I managed to find the board game Taboo at a very expensive price of almost $60. The game is played by trying to explain a word to your team without using related words. For example you must describe the word "OPEN" without using the words "DOOR", "CLOSE", "DRAWER", "ENDED". It's a good way to keep juggling your mind after a day's work.

With all this Christmas wrapping paper I started doing some origami again with my current favourite model being the classic Japanese crane. The initial origami rekindled interest started by trying to make some models to tag Christmas presents, but the more I think about it the more futile the idea seems.

Since I was pretty busy this week I didn't have much time to read but the few columns I selected were very interesting:-
Improving Usability
Rands in Repose - How to lose a job Part 1
Red Herring - The business of technology

I'm currently experimenting with Desktop Search software. Apparently these are programs developed by the major search engines that work like complex windows find files. They index all documents like word, excel, web pages etc. on your PC and allow you to search for them though a web interface. I downloaded google's desktop search hoping that it's better than the competion from MSN's desktop search and the newly released Ask Jeeves Desktop Search

Yesterday the Champions League fixtures were drawn. We're spoilt for choice on which game to watch with particularly hot matches like Milan to Manchester, Real Madrid to Juventus and Barcelona to Chelsea.