On Friday June 1, I join Bernt at Avanade Norway. Yey! I applied for a job there after having met lots of nice Avanade people in Seattle. Before that I'd met some nice Avanade people in Sydney and Canberra, and after accepting I've met nice Avanade people in Tokyo as well. My current boss wondered if Bernt has dragged me all around the world in an elaborate recruitment scheme. If he has, it has worked! 
My role is System Analyst, and I'll mostly work with Business Intelligence. (Mostly, but I think I'll be working with SharePoint as well in periods.)
I've already been given a new computer. Last night I installed Vista and classic applications like Microsoft Office, and today I've added Visual Studio. Then there was time for usefull applications. The new computer is a Dell Latitude D820. So far I'm happy with it. It has a wide screen, and the battery last at least double the time compared to my current computer.
I downloaded the last version of FeedReader (3.09). I'm running a previous version on my current job laptop, and was pleasantly supprised that they've made a new reading option. In the last version there's now an option that looks like the setup in Outlook: Folders and feeds on the left, a list of titles in the middle and a single post in the right pane. Yey!
I also wanted a free image editor. I've been using Paint.NET for half a year. I think it's ok, at least for my use, which is to fix screenshots and making small images. I wouldn't use it for "proper" photo editing, as I think it uses too much CPU with big images. I've noticed that when I edit big pictues, Paint.NET just grabs all the CPU it can have and then some. So I started looking for a different image editor.
I found Gimp and ImageForge while looking. I've tried Gimp before, and didn't like it at all. So I downloaded ImageForge and installed it. The installation was pretty quirky, kind of what was common in Windows 98. That's not really a good sign. When I opened it up, it couldn't display a gif with transparency properly. I promptly uninstalled it, downloaded Paint.NET 3.07 and installed that instead. I'll take CPU hogging over silly layout any day.