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Another busy week comes to an end. So busy -again- in fact this week I’ll write a quick and small report before going to the swimming pool with my son.

Aitor has continued working on the design of Verkami’s first side project and in project Bazaar. And for me, I’ve been working on Bazaar’s codebase but also had to do some maintenance work in two old projects and had to restart a frozen project we signed 8 months ago! (codename: blueprint). Luckily this project is small and shouldn’t affect other tasks.

This week I’ll recommend you to read Why Is Business Writing So Awful? from Jason Fried. The article is pretty old in internet time (May 2010) but still relevant. Of course your customers moderate your tone, but don’t forget that you choose your customers!.

One last thing. As you may know, Linking Paths’s roots are in Bilbao. It’s also public that we are not big football fans, but still I’m very happy that Athletic Club, will be playing Europa League’s final on May 9th. It really means a lot for a small city like Bilbao and its very special team.

Have a nice weekend!.

Week is almost finished. Back to routine after Easter Season. Well, I should say “routine”, since I’ve had one meeting every day of the week. Too much for me.

Aitor has been mainly designing for Bazaar and a new sub-product for Verkami. In the time left after all those meetings, I’ve lived one of the most ridiculous situations in my career. I’m not a system administrator. And problably I’m not a devop either, even when I’ve installed and managed an interesting amount of servers and applications. But trying to fix the Ruby stack of a Red Hat 5 server using gTalk… Yes, just gTalk, that’s all. I have no idea about the other services or apps the server hosts, neither do the guy on the other side of gTalk. Pretty funny.

Regarding our products, this week we have migrated Stage to a new host following a bigger upgrade in our provider. It was pretty easy, the folks at Slicehost did a great job helping the affected customers with the migration, so in around one hour all our systems were up and working properly again.

The bad news come from Payout. The legal framework is really a nightmare. We always suspected that the entry barriers were the cause of the lack of competition in the baking & payments sector. And we were right. We have reduced our choices to two alternatives, but both of them force us to be part of the banking sector’s spider network. It’s not the we hate banks, but becoming one or partnering with one of them is not one of our dreams. Let’s see how it evolves.

And finally, my weekly recommendation. This week has been a lot of buzz about Instagram, but I want to recommend you a different reading: How will the new law on cookies affect internet browsing? from The Guardian. As many of you know, the grace period the EU gave member states to transpose the e-Privacy directive -also known as “the cookie law”- finishes next month. Most members states have left their homework for the very the last minute, including Spain and the UK.This article is very informative. But to be fair, I don’t see many sites using cookiesdirective.js in the coming weeks.

Note: Don’t forget to click the ‘Click to discover how the Guardian uses cookies’ button below the image on The Guardian’s article.

Have a nice weekend!.