A part of our team working exclusively for pingdom.com is back from Sweden after talks on further work on the project. It was hard work and fun at the same time, a combination that always works well at Troxo.

The meeting was really productive and will result in many new features Pingdom’s clients will receive during 2008. After the nitty-gritty, the team got down to a crayfish party, a traditional eating and drinking celebration in Sweden.

They say “one drink for every claw”, but few of us kept up that pace. It wasn’t all partying, though. Sightseeing in Stockholm, go-cart racing, a boat trip and a visit to an amusement park were also on the agenda.

And just when you think everything goes well…Remember JAT, whose uptime we had started monitoring before we took off? Although their site has faced no downtime, their service did have a big one. Our plane (after an unpleasant malfunction) departed as many as 14 hrs behind schedule. Quite a slip