Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up early, out for a run with J. nice. Sync with Dave,
bulk admin, internal tech. call. Lunch, sync with Joao, then
Armin.
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Published the next strip with more exotic egg related
controversy and a very typical excluded middle:
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Planning call in the morning, mail chew, prodded a
proposal, lunch, sync with Laser, Anna & Andras, customer
call.
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Pleased to see a really nice The
Open Road to Freedom index, making it easier to see
what is going on.
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Finally managed to get my Apple account to let me
pay for a developer subscription - after lots of compound
problems wasting hours. Clearly I've hit some buggy
indeterminate state - still can't see subscriptions or
country information: perhaps I'm stuck mid-atlantic beween
two systems.
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Up early, mail chew, 1:1's, marketing call, finally
got to E-mail in the evening and a little code.
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Up early, played violin at All Saints, back for
quiche leftovers ("Give us today our daily quiche").
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Slept a chunk of the afternoon, pulled together
some hymns for the evening service, then lead that with
Florence.
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Home for dinner, and some relaxation.
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Up earlyish, pottered about - discovered a router
collet extension in the garage that solved my curious
not-fitting problem: nice.
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Got the robot lawn-mower back into action: now
without a garden full of windfall apples: nice.
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J. out to YFC prayer lunch. Poked at work backlog,
caught up with H. and E.
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Out for dinner to The Pantry with J. -
lovely.
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Sync with Dave, caught up with mail and planning
backlog. Enjoyed Mike's TTT on VclPtr bits while eating
lunch.
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Several hour proposal meeting, sync on new
partner, call with another partner - fun. Caught up
with admin backlog.
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Out to Wetherspoons for a Churches Together men's
curry - good to see lots of the lads
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Up early, tech-planning call, sync with Lily,
snatched lunch, sync with Miklos, more planning, admin
and estimation.
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House group - Lent course on the Desert Fathers.
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Sync with Dave, then Anna & Timur, then
Davide, Mathias, Miklos, Pedro, Skyler & Andras.
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Published the next strip around the problem of what
public statements to make as a community:
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Sales engineering, sync with Oliver &
Thorsten, worked on estimation, catch up with Keith,
worked late.
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Up early, caught up with admin. Longish planning
call. Sync on CP Germany's final merger pieces.
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Sync with Laser, lunch, interview in the
afternoon, more admin, worked late.
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Up early, encourging meeting with new partner
in the morning, worked in taxi & on flight back.
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Up earlyish, off to All Saints with J&A.
Back for a pizza lunch together.
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Rested, and watched All Quiet on the Western Front
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Taxi to STN - flight to Milan, taxi, hotel late.
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Relaxed somewhat, tidied the garage, hacked
a bit. Went for a walk with J. and H. by a farm.
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Anne over to stay, and David for dinner -
had a nice time together.
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Up earlyish, poked at some code in the taxi,
and on the train. Interesting call with Alvaro on the
train.
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Eventually home, more on-the-train hacking space.
J. picked me up, dinner, bit more work in the evening.
Call wiht Eloy.
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Up too early, taxi to Cambridge, train to Kings
Cross, Eurostar to Paris.
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Got some time for hacking on the train, poked at
timezone horrors - copying 1800+ tiny files (total
size ~2.5Mb) into stacked file-systems left and right
seems madness, particularly since we already ship a
duplicate timezone database in an embedded ICU. Should
speedup jail creation time nicely, and reduce per-doc
memory footprint in the copy case.
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Encouraging day of meeting CIOs, and other FLOSS
luminaries - lots of fun and interest. Great dinner in the
evening.
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Sync with Dave. Catch up with Joao, Timur & Anna.
Lunch. All Hands call.
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Published the next strip inspired by just one of
Northcote Parkinson's insights in his epic management
book: Bike Shedding:
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Poked at code and admin left and right until late,
packed for Paris tomorrow.
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Planning call, sync with Laser, lunch. Sync with
Andras, monthly mgmt meeting.
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Got to some design & coding for COOL 26.04 - nice.
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In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
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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
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
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