Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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As part of my 4D chess / cunning plan to convince
everyone I'm more foolish even than I seem - I got up super
early, and took a train to London/St Pancras to discover I
was a day early for my train; bother. Got some quiet
code-reading in on the train home at least.
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Planning call, sync with Naomi & Pedro, finalized
annual reviews, and dispatched numbers left & right.
Worked late.
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Up early, off to visit Naomi in Loughborough; met her
at Holywell Church
and enjoyed the service together.
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Out for a pub lunch together, and back to for a guided
tour of engineering things - interesting. Out to visit Ruth &
boys very briefly to drop some hardware off.
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Bid 'bye to N. and drove home; dinner, bed early.
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J. out to counselling training; slept exhaustedly for much
of the morning; lunch with the babes, slugged. Cleaned up blog.
To work!
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Discovered lots of un-read and answered E-mail in the
backlog; bother - worked on that.
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Partner call, sync with Miklos; another partner sync.
Got to some debugging and hacking finally - whoot; found a nasty
incremental view update regression & eventually fixed it late.
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Technical planning call, sync with finance & Deirdre on
end of year comp adjustments - monster spreadsheets of doom; good
testing action: why is it that problems tend to only show up in
the most confidential documents - and in the least debuggable places?
fun.
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Into the office quickly to free up some rack-space; wiped
misc. hardware. Started working back through E-mail.
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Partner sync, chat with some friends, sync with Naomi,
weekly sales call, Mark showed up to look at our plumbing
problems - nice. Quick sync with some FLOSS leaders.
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Catch up for overdue 1:1's, sync with Stelios &
Mitch, new hardware ordering action; undergoing a bigger
hardware refresh.
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Mail chew; early QA call, planning call, lunch,
marketing call(s), some admin, TDF board call, dinner.
Forgot all-evening PCC meeting - bother.
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All Saints, violin mostly, Robert spoke well; back
for roast lunch. Relaxed & watched movies while also
taxi'ing kids from A to B variously.
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Up late, J. out - pottered around the house mending
things and tidying up variously. Visited Mark in our old home
to get a recommendation on a plumber to fix our pump.
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Mail chew; bit of hacking on OSL sandboxing; J. back
and David over for a pizza dinner, and some Codenames + lego
assembly goodness together; got a better sandbox cut merged
before bed for CI results on Monday.
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Partner call, sync with Lily & Andras; lunch,
another partner call, admin, legal call.
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Ad-hoc visit from the very engaging & switched
on Principle of Tyndale
House, amusingly over-cited for re-discovery of a
once-lost
star catalog, but more importantly for his contributions to
Biblical Scholarship. A very interesting chap. My friend
James has impressive Gaunxi it seems.
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Up early; feeling somewhat better, technical
planning call - lots of ideas to further improve quality.
Mail backlog chewage, catch up with Andras, and Anna.
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Slowly recovering; slides. Monthly All Hands
call, lots to say, over-ran by an hour; legal call in
the evening.
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Slept somewhat feverishly; voice nearly completely gone;
cancelled a day of 1:1's. Partner call, worked on slides for
monthly mgmt meeting; had that.
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Most interesting to see the Kiteworks
acquisition announcement. Got to a bit of hacking;
call with Holger lateish; bed.
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Slept remarkably badly; something about coughing &
congestion that's not conducive to sleep. With deep regret swapped
Richard in for the OpenUK Awards
ceremony tonight.
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Miklos ran the planning call; I listened here & there
and typed. Setup VPN (again) with Mitch afterwards; lunch; mail
chew.
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Finally got to some tangled financial bits & eventually
to a little hacking.
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Up lateish, voice nearly gone, All Saints - played
bass & violin, used last of voice catching up with people.
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Home for a fine steak lunch - slugged throatily and
watched movies; bit of gardening with J. more slugging.
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license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
