Ummm… Yes and no.

Let me tell you a little more about Xavier’s new “disease”.
First of all, it is chronic. For several days now, we have been working with Gianni “Gidibao”, our Italian blogger friend, to translate Wambo website in Italian (thank you Gianni by the way, awesome job! ). Since Xavier has been reading those Italian translations, he keeps distracting the whole team by repeating over and over again the same sentences in Italian. How exotic would it be if he could actually speak Italian! Unfortunately, the sentences he likes repeating are more like “Cliccare su Finito per terminare l’operazione”, which means “Click on Finish to finish the operation” or “Messaggistica Privata di Gruppo”, which means “Private Group Messaging”.

Here are other information you need to know about this rare disease:

Is the disease contagious?
God no!

Are there secondary effects?
I’ll tell you in a few months. You never know, maybe Xavier will eventually decide to learn Italian.

What type of medication do you need?
Well, I’m not a doctor but I am pretty sure we need to call back our friend Enrique (see previous blog post on Ruby Skye) and ask him to fly back to California. If Enrique was here, Xavier would be speaking Spanish all day long. That would save us!

Hopefully, he’ll recover by himself. Actually, although Xavier is temporarily enduring severe “Italian-aholism” , I’m glad Wambo is becoming so internationally-oriented. Wambo has friends in so many countries now: Spain, Italy, France, Mexico, Argentina, Malaysia, Guatemala and others. Starting this week, you can even read our website in English, in French, in Spanish and in Italian. So we’re moving forward with the localization of our software. I hope you’ll enjoy it!

Anne-Laure

Last Thursday, a few of us at Wambo enjoyed an evening in the city! Enrique, a friend from out of town, arrived from Spain. We dined at a North Beach restaurant which offered upscale “classic” American food. Both the steak and seafood there were delicious! All of us enjoyed eating out together in a different setting than the workplace. It was really fun, and taking our out of town guest Enrique, provided us with a great opportunity for some fine dining and good conversation in San Francisco.

Initially, we were a little apprehensive because we were seated right next to the piano. There were a lot of instruments and a mini band at the restaurant, and we began to worry that our table would become the center of the musical extravaganza. Luckily, this was not the case. We just had to raise our voices a little to converse, but that was about it.

After dinner, we wanted to take our guest to a club to enjoy the evening. All of us drove over to the “Ruby Skye Club” where we enjoyed cocktails and some great dance music. Arnaud, the wine connoisseur, helped to pick out two bottles of wine. Afterwards, several DJ’s competed to win our approval in a music competition, and by 2 AM, I was completely exhausted and ready to go home! What a fun evening out on the town though!

-Anne-Laure