Only two days ago Blogger ran into a hickup and locked out a lot of users by accident.

Interesting to see the downsides so fast after starting the SaaS expirement ...

Anyway, I already discovered a few advantages too, so it is not all doom and gloom :-)

 Full blogger accident story here: Blogger Buzz: You Are Not Spam

SaaS or Software as a Service is on of the new buzz words running around these days, and surely for big businesses it is a very important and challenging question, but also for yours truly it has always been a dilemma when looking at our own little website.

Given we started a long time ago, and have been true different stages, it has always been a comforting thought that we owned the database, and could actually do with it what we wanted.

At the same time this resulted in a few hacks and loss of data at impossible times.

I really not sure we fully want to go the SaaS road and say goodbye to our own dedicated GL, but one little project I wanted to kickstart around my other passion, will be using a SaaS approach by using blogger, picasa and some other great google stuff

Do I sound as a google addict here :-)

Anyway, a simple little side project that would really go well under a GL approach, but I want to see if I can reach the same or higher level and satisfaction as with a dedicated solution.

Stay tuned :-)

Ohhh, and offcourse a link to the new Skärgård Project is mandatory.

Soon we will have some updates here, with the latest GL, maybe a new theme, and sure some more integration with some other projects ...

So if something gets broken, then it is all according to plan ;-)

And yes, still smoke free ... 

I just noted that I quit on a Monday, one month ago :-)

So depending how we want to count, I am now one month smoke free, or I will be by the end of tomorrow ...

I guess we can call that another milestone ...

or 14 days ...

or 336 hours ...

or 20160 seconds ...

or  280 non smoked cigarettes ...

or  the first 700 SEK saved ...

still non smoking and counting.

Having an after work drink in Finland, and it seems that some of my collegues actually do read all this on facebook :-)

So Hanna ... once again congratz on your wedding !!!

And I won't tell Wivi about our fantastic shower idea :-P

If you like boats you should give boaters a try !

5 full days of no smoking has passed ...

I still have the conditional looking for a cigarette, or feeling like now I could really use one, but overall it is going great ...

So for me the threatment with Zyban seems to work good, as I have no nicotine substitution and managed to get over the critical first 72 hours ...

For those of you who are considering to quit smoking, have a look at the following websites for further inspiration and motivation.

They helped me in one way or to other to find the extra support I needed in times of nicotine craving, and stick to the adagio "Never Take Another Puff":

WhyQuit

Never Take Another Puff
A 200 Pages book in PDF for free

Freedom - Cold Turkey Quitting
Allthough I use Zyban, the Freedom group has a lot of small and good tips to help you through those craving moments

And a really interesting and nice quitmeter based on what happens in your body starting 20 minutes after your quit up to 15 years later ...

I can't seem to find it now, but will post it some other day (and no it is not quitmeter . org or . com )

Monday ... Tuesday ... Wednesday ...

No Cigarettes :-)

3 To Go ....

The great thing is that I have no longer a "need" everytime.

The bad things is that I am maybe moving to fast (not making excuses here).

The official Zyban suggest to "quit" at day 8.
I am at day 4 and I do start feeling the effect since yesterday afternoon. So I will try as of tomorrow morning to live without cigarettes ...

Should work fine ... might be a little bit grumpy the coming hours :-)