Maybe she’s not that fancy dressed, maybe she doesn’t have that modern look, but underneath that dull, 70’s look, lies a power that hard to control. I have known her for a decade, and flirted with her from time to time, but she never caught my interest long enough for me to get hooked.

It was so much easier to fall for TextMates nice and slim look, and for the power that lies ind CMD+t and the project drawer, but when you have lived with her for some time, you find that’s she’s a slow starter, never really reinvents herself, and can’t keep too many balls in the air at once. You try to indulge her by turning on the Cutting-Edge flag in the software update settings, but that only makes her cover up her weak spots with more makeup.

So a couple of days ago, I left Textmate at home and set out to take MacVim for ride. It was akward at first, but then again, so was my first dates with another mistress of mine, Puppet. You got to hang in and be brave, ‘cause she tricks you. Be careful with the keystrokes when she is in command (mode) and learn the undo key (u) early on (and the fact that she actually has three moods (modes)). If you grasp her moodyness, she will slowly loosen up, and hand over the full control of her hidden power. And then you can molden her into the editor you really want.

I’m still struggling with her moodyness. I find myself fingering for the arrow keys everytime I have to move around in a file. I find myself reaching for the safety belt I have in my mouse. But I’m also patient, because I know that in the end it will pay off. Just as with Puppet. And Linux. And all the other mistresses I keep.

I've signed up for this years Startup Weekend Copenhagen. Some of you who knows me, would probably ask: Why? You have your own company. Are you changing horses in the middlie of the stream? To that question I must answer:
No. I'm not.

I just see a lot of potential, meeting up with a lot of smart people for an intense weekend of pitching product ideas, choosing the best ones, designing them and build them. I know that I can provide knowledge in the areas of how to build the infrastructure to support a new, webbased product. And I hope that I can learn a lot from the processes we have to go through that weekend, to get some results in that short, but intense period of time. Some experience that I can take home and use in my own team.

But then again - it could be interesting to be part of a new startup... :-)

In the week after, I'll post about the event and the outcome of it.

Last saturday the weather was finally good enough for me and my son to go outside and do some unicycling. We've both missed it a lot during the long period of cold weather with lots of snow, so it was fun to get the wheels going. We were both curious how bad we would be after such a long break, but we both did a fairly good ride without falling too much. And I realized how much fun it really is, and how much I've missed it.

As long as we're not in a club of unicyclists, we have to rely on the weather to be good enough to ride in. When we (hopefully soon) get a club started in our hometown, we can ride indoors and ignore the weather outside. But until then, we have to ride outside.