Guus Bosman

Yesterday I had to pick up something so I worked from home in the morning. I was a bit out my usual morning habits, and for one reason or the other I forgot to drink coffee. Typically, I'd arrive at Starbucks at 8:20 and get a coffee, which usually lasts until 10.30 or so.

Sure, enough, around 10.30 am I started getting a headache. It's a sign that I'm really addicted. I know I am, but it's different to actually feel the cold-turkey pain... There hasn't been a day in the last months that I didn't drink at least three cups of coffee.

Is it a sign of addiction when you look at your drink and think: "did they start making those large coffees in smaller cups?"

This morning when I went to work the metro stopped for a minute in the tunnel as it sometimes does when there's a train ahead. I noticed how quiet it is in the metro at 8.15 -- nobody talks. If you take the metro home in the evening it's quite different.

One of the projects that took most of my time this summer is almost out of UAT, and it will go into production next weekend.

Things in the news here are the indictment of Mr. Libby, the funeral of Rosa Parks and since today a publication of a e-mails by Michael Brown, the former FEMA director who resigned after the criticism on FEMA's handling of Katrina's aftermath.