Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Polished slides, helpful Partner Council call; more
slides.
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Spoke to some Hills Road Computer Science students
on the skills needed for a career in Software Engineering,
something of an unusual talk for me:
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Call with Kendy, then Cor, lunch. Worked at draft slides for
the partner council; handed them over to Elisa.
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Planning call, admin, call with Hossein
LibreOffice's shiny new development mentor: nice.
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Toiled away at slides. Poked at an invalidation problem.
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All Saints goodness, lots of relaxing.
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David over, good to see him - put up a Gazebo and cable-tied
it to the wall; hmm. BBQ goodness.
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Tried to peel back the main backlog a little. Testing meeting.
Profiled a document conversion to PDF for a lead. Contract work, catch
up with Florian & Thorsten.
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Christina over to see H, Wendy dropped in too, E's Birthday
party in the evening - busy.
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Customer call, COOL community call, marketing call, sync with
Andras, lunch. Call wiht Tracie, Mike, more admin. Proof-read text.
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Sales call & catch up with Eloy. Partner call,
customer sales call, lunch. H. dunged more muck out of the
Garage.
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Mail, catch up with Pedro, consultancy team call,
Piano Tuner over, catch up with Kendy, Cor, Philippe.
Plugged away at building performance benchmark with six
users auto-positioned via bookmarks in a sample document.
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Fixed a regression of my own creation blowing the
JS VM's stack for large images.
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Planning call, mail chew, call with Tor & team, admin
call with Andras, Herman & Stelios. N. off camping with her
friends; Yes Minister with E. catch up with Guy in the evening.
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H. and I headed to AllSaints, the rest to see Bob &
Dee. Back for a fine pizza lunch, read family book together,
got to the last episode of The Chosen
together. Out for a walk, and switched to Line of Duty, a very
lazy day; M. concerned about exams tomorrow.
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J. out for counselling training; got another
couple of sets of door furniture mounted. Wrote up the
recent DAC/PCC meeting minutes from notes. Call with
Dad, H. helped cut & mount door trims.
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Helped N. & M. with a quartet backup plan
for tomorrow, with H. double-booked.
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Presents at breakfast - some good tools to continue
finishing the house more quickly. Took N. and M. to the
orthodontist at Addenbrookes; home admin, lunch. Simon over
for a long Sales & Marketing chat, interesting. Fine
Steak & Baked Alaska dinner - 44 years, and none
the wiser. Put up new Yale / wireless house alarm, H.
organized the garage boxes nicely.
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Mail chew, customer call, catch up with Muhammet, COOL
community meeting. Lunch, couple of customer calls, poked at
some profiles. E. had Amelie over for a sleep-over.
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Sales call, early lunch, catch-up with Elisa & Pedro.
All-hands call, out to minute DAC / PCC meeting at All Saints.
Picked up babes, hand-over with Miklos.
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H.&N. back, dinner, All Saints band practice with H.
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Catch-up with Kendy, mail chew, built slides, CP monthly
mgmt call. Build, profiling, fixed silly detected by CI.
Legal / contract review & signing in parallel, chat with
Pranam, dinner, late customer presentation; bed.
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E's birthday - remote silent-monks happy-birthday
action, presents at breakfast, dropped them into school.
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Planning call; mail, lunch, performance team call;
re-discovered Android-Studio's love of consuming all memory
and burning us deeply into swap.
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All Saints in the morning, back for a pizza lunch, some
music. A cream tea with Mary & Nicky - been so long since we
saw them; lovely.
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Subscribed to Musescore, some quartet action.
J. took H. & N. off to stay with B&A for a bit.
David over for the end of the cream tea, caught up & watched
Johnny English with the babes - relaxing.
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James, Kate & Penelopy over in the afternoon;
played "Smash-up" and caught up with them happily.
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Put up more garage tables with E. and got the
garage into slightly better order: clear bits of floor
appearing in places.
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Up rather late working on performance issues.
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Poked at profiles, dug at some particularly slow and memory
consuming tile base64 conversion code. Lunch with H. Partner call,
helped H. put up some desk / shelves.
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Took babes to schook. COOL call, catch up with Gabriel;
lunch. Sysadmin outage postmortem, chap turned to collect the
car to mend the cat, customer call.
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Code review session with Ash, plugged away at cleaning
up my threading problem; good. Started to turn spare fire-doors
into shelves in the garage.
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Up early, admin, sales call, bug review, catch up with Kara,
Lunch. Met with Simon & then the S&M leads in the afternoon.
Profiling goodness.
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Band practice at church, home to discover the water is out
for much of Newmarket; interesting. H. returned.
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Calls with Kendy, Willaim, Eloy & Cor, Philippe.
H. out to Norwich for a sleepover with friends. Played Violin
with N. - playing nicely by ear.
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Investigated wavy-line rendering: used for mis-spelled
words, seems it's all very tiny anti-aliased b-splines; hmm.
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Sync with Andras, planning call, admin. Caught up with
Eloy, call wiith Ash. Minuted PCC call in the evening.
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All Saints in the morning, rested & relaxed variously
with the babes; reading Vinge's The Children of the Sky to
them when they're all around.
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J. off to Birmingham, worked on hanging doors with David;
made good progress. Decided we need to rebate them to fit together
nicely - somewhat hindered by the cutter falling out of the router
and into the timber while cutting: bother - top tip: don't loose
the nice thin, stamped spanner for the chuck. Got ~there eventually,
tiring.
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Paid off electricians. Chat with Cor, TDF employees & board
call. Finished slides & recorded OW2Con talk - should be fun.
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Electricians arrived and finished the last bits of wiring,
good. E's friends over - went swimming, nice to see them. Built
slide deck for OW2Con.
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Mail chew; helped H. with some python programming. Catton
Windows arrived to fit replacement doors (after our previous but one
night-time visitors ~7 months ago); nice. Worked on more slides.
Customer call.
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Caught up with Kendy, plugged away at mail &
slides for a customer/partner update - which slipped.
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H's friend Anna came over; up late.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
