diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fee9ad5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+= Debian 8 (Jessie) =
+
+*Note*: This is not the recommended way of doing it. Ideally, there should be a virtual environment (venv) setup.
+
+sudo apt-get install python-serial python-numpy python-matplotlib python-pip python-dev
+
+sudo pip install cython
+sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev \
+    libsdl-image1.2-dev \
+    libsdl-mixer1.2-dev \
+    libsdl-ttf2.0-dev \
+    libsmpeg-dev \
+    libsdl1.2-dev \
+    libportmidi-dev \
+    libswscale-dev \
+    libavformat-dev \
+    libavcodec-dev \
+    zlib1g-dev
+sudo pip install kivy==1.9 --upgrade
diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index 512f912..f78fc2f 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ class MainWindow(FloatLayout):
     image_output_file = StringProperty('')
     raw_data_output_file = StringProperty('')
     reference_profile_file = StringProperty('')
-    lastData = ListProperty([])
+    lastData = ListProperty(list())
 
 
     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ class MainWindow(FloatLayout):
             if 'time' in last_point:
                 self.lastTime = float(last_point['time'])
             if 'exception' in last_point:
-                self.lastStatus = {'status' : 'error', 'message' : data['exception']}
+		self.lastStatus = {'status' : 'error', 'message' : last_point['exception']}
             self.lastData = data
         #if dataThreadDataQueue.qsize():
         #    Logger.debug('update_last_temperature: ' + str(dataThreadDataQueue.qsize()) + ' items left in queue after ' + str(len(data)) + ' items were taken out')
diff --git a/temp_log.py b/temp_log.py
index d245daf..6b0f6b1 100755
--- a/temp_log.py
+++ b/temp_log.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class ParseException(Exception):
 def parse_line(line, version = defaultVersion):
     """Parses a line and returns an array index by name of the data available"""
     # @TODO This could be a class based versioning?
-    data = {}
+    data = dict()
     if (version == 0):
         line = line.split(' ')
         try: