Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2026-06-05 Friday

2026-06-05T12:05:49Z

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.
Tried to pack, and gather together things for the Church's Men's walking weekend.
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:

2026-06-04T21:00:00Z

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.
Worked on trains home, caught up with J.
Home group bible study on Malachi.
Worked until almost midnight to get a response in to the CMA SMS investigation of Microsoft submitted in time; tiring.

2026-06-03T21:00:00Z

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.
Caught up with Philippe, worked late into the evening.

2026-06-02T21:00:00Z

Up early, mail chew, long planning call, quick lunch, sync with Andras & Anna, catch up with Laser, customer sales call.
Caught up with Ben from Parula in the afternoon - interesting; sync with some partners, dinner.

2026-06-01T21:00:00Z

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.

2026-05-31T21:00:00Z

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.

2026-05-30T21:00:00Z

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.
Lunch in the garden, got misc. personal admin handled, DBS check, driving license renewal, and more.

2026-05-29T21:00:00Z

Mail chew, sync with Dave, then Anna & Timur. Lunch, read around a regulatory topic. Sync with a partner.
Spent some time moving flash backups to oxide.
Plugged away upgrading build trees, and doing admin in parallel.
Out to All Saints to practice briefly.

2026-05-28T21:00:00Z

Mail chew; breakfast, enjoyed some Ubuntu Summit-ness in the morning, lunch, and headed home - tubes, trains, etc.
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:
More admin, house group in the evening.

2026-05-27T21:00:00Z

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.

2026-05-26T21:00:00Z

Up early, packed, mail chew, planning call, worked in a taxi; train to London - plugged away at slides.
Arrived at the very pretty Canonical office, met up with the team and pre-recorded a Collabora Office talk.
Met up with a number of other speakers, out for an Indian with Joseph of bootc.

2026-05-25T21:00:00Z

Up early, sync with Eloy in the morning, plugged away at contracts, admin, and more.
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.
Out for a walk with J. in the evening, and watched the sunset in the garden - lovely.

2026-05-24T21:00:00Z

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.
J. back in the evening full of intersting things from her counselling course.

2026-05-23T21:00:00Z

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.
Maths with E. on moments, got some sign, direction, etc. practice sorted out. Chinese take-out.

2026-05-22T21:00:00Z

Early interview & job offer for a support role, catch up with Anna, sync with Dave, catch up with a partner, 1:1 with Naomi.
Sync with Thorsten, Skyler, Pedro, poked at slides.
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.

2026-05-21T21:00:00Z

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.
House group in the evening.