I got the honor to be the co-driver of my friend Jonas at the AutoMotorSport Trackday at Mantorp Park. This event was one of the best I took part of this year, the Mantorp Park raceway is located in the wonderful landscape of Östergötland and the weather was as perfect as it could be in end September which made it even better.
BMW, Audi and Porsche had some cars there as well with professional drivers from this years STCC (Swedish Touring Car Championship) acting as taxi-drivers for the interested. So it was possible to be taxied around the track in an M5, Z4M Coupe, Porsche 911 GT3, Audi RS4, …
The tires of the M5 after half of the day, no more driving possible due to security reasons:
An E60 M5 in action:
I did… or I should say I tried to. 
In the late summer we were at our local meat-cuisine, the “Texas Longhorn” steak restaurant. It’s originally from Stockholm but this year they finally opened their first restaurant in Gothenburg at the Linné-Square nearby Slottskogen. After some visits there with normal meat consumption (~500g steaks) I thought it’s time to test the “Sitting Bull” which is a 1kg strip loin steak. I skipped the fries as usual but I can tell you don’t eat nachos before that monster. Unfortunately I had to quit the steak with about 250g left over.
Sitting in Denmark at a customer’s site I really got frustrated today. My newly installed ITCAM for WebSphere management server just don’t starts and all managing scripts throw core dumps to the left and right, the managing scripts are relying on POSIX so they need the SFU (Windows Services for Unix) installed. We are setting this thing up on a W2K3 Server SP-1 – bad combination as I know now. Another bad thing about the SFU is that it comes with a KSH and a CSH, who the hell wants that? Where’s the BASH implementation for SFU? Finally found a technote at IBM pointing to (surprise!) a hotfix at Micro$oft which addresses exactly that problem. Hopefully the next set up will be on a *ix platform so we can skip the SFU. Here are the links for the interested:
Technote about the problem
Hotfix from Micro$oft
This year I felt now it’s the time to buy a bike. I found a quite nice one at a small bicycle store on the islands north of Gothenburg. Just a simple MTB/Trekking hybrid so it’s nothing special but good enough for a tour to the local pub or so. I bought in in June and used it twice – guess where to?!
Pictures may follow…