Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up too early. Dropped H. into XJTAG before her epic Asian
trip. Lovely to meet up with John Hall and catch up after a couple of
decades.
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Tried to pack, and gather together things for the Church's Men's
walking weekend.
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Published the next strip: Ejecting a do-er, "if in
doubt, kick them out!"; cancellation based on un-proven
allegation seems to be the spirit of the age:
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Up much too early, train into London. Met up with
some interesting folk from HCL. Pod-cast recording, lunch
re-recording a second take; interesting perspectives, fun
people.
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Worked on trains home, caught up with J.
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Home group bible study on Malachi.
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Worked until almost midnight to get a response in to
the CMA
SMS investigation of Microsoft submitted in time; tiring.
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Up early, sync with Dave, unusual strategy review call
for a 3rd party - odd, sync with Thorsten, worked on stacks of admin.
TC meeting in the afternoon.
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Caught up with Philippe, worked late into the evening.
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Up early, mail chew, long planning call, quick lunch,
sync with Andras & Anna, catch up with Laser, customer sales
call.
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Caught up with Ben from Parula in the afternoon -
interesting; sync with some partners, dinner.
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Up early, mail chew, admin bits, 1:1's with Miklos, Thorsten,
marketing content catch-up, sync with Naomi, Pedro, Eloy, final attempt
to catch up with mail at the end of a day of back-to-back calls.
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All Saints, lead worship on the guitar with H,
on the piano and Mary singing; fun. Quick lunch, and
off to see a new niece Adeline, R&A and family -
lovely to spend some time with them in the sun, and
admire their new family member - lovely.
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Up early, pottered around - tried to get a varnish
match with J. for the oak floor; cleared up the garden,
more laptop backed action to wipe / re-install it for
foreign travel.
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Lunch in the garden, got misc. personal admin
handled, DBS check, driving license renewal, and more.
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Mail chew, sync with Dave, then Anna & Timur.
Lunch, read around a regulatory topic. Sync with a partner.
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Spent some time moving flash backups to oxide.
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Plugged away upgrading build trees, and doing admin
in parallel.
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Out to All Saints to practice briefly.
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Mail chew; breakfast, enjoyed some Ubuntu Summit-ness
in the morning, lunch, and headed home - tubes, trains, etc.
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Published the next strip: The board doesn't seem to care!
illustrating the mis-conceptions people often have of how a committee
works, and expresses its will: subsidiarity or subsidence:
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More admin, house group in the evening.
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Enjoyed Mark's introduction, and an eclectic set of
interesting FLOSS talks at the Ubuntu Summit. Lunch with
the community team, distributed beavers, and talked to
interesting people left and right until late.
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Up early, packed, mail chew, planning call,
worked in a taxi; train to London - plugged away at
slides.
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Arrived at the very pretty Canonical office,
met up with the team and pre-recorded a Collabora
Office talk.
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Met up with a number of other speakers,
out for an Indian with Joseph of bootc.
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Up early, sync with Eloy in the morning, plugged
away at contracts, admin, and more.
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Off in the afternoon, lunch outside under the
shade-sail, snoozed, helped E. with more maths:
F=ma combined with fun differential equations - hacked
a bit while she practiced.
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Out for a walk with J. in the evening, and
watched the sunset in the garden - lovely.
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Up earlyish, violin at All Saints, home to cook
some burgers & bacon with E. for lunch. Relaxed -
read The Economist, watched nonsense on TV, snoozed.
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J. back in the evening full of intersting things
from her counselling course.
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Up early, played with babes, poked at maps. Back to
work, poked at slides for the Ubuntu Summit next week, and
played with container/vm pieces left and right - fun.
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Maths with E. on moments, got some sign, direction,
etc. practice sorted out. Chinese take-out.
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Early interview & job offer for a support role,
catch up with Anna, sync with Dave, catch up with a partner,
1:1 with Naomi.
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Sync with Thorsten, Skyler, Pedro, poked at slides.
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Dave, Emily, Jake, Pete & Eli arrived - played
in the garden somewhat, enjoyed company, tried to cook a
meal; caught up happily after a decade+ gap. Bed early.
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Up early, tech panning call, admin, marketing call,
sync with Laser, catch up with Skyler & Lily. Caught
part of the weekly sales call, COOL days retrospective,
poked at slides.
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House group in the evening.
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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)
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