Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Worked on the mail & ticket backlog.
Babes had a garden meet-up, and fire in the evening.
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Supported M&D at John Cornish' funeral, good
to see lots of people there. Lunch & tea in the garden.
Drove home late.
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Planning call, lunch; worked on our QA matrix
with the team; off to a funeral in London.
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All Saints communion service, minuted the
APCM and PCC Chancel meeting; back for lunch; D.
over.
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Re-assembled trampoline with D's help - amusing
to see him playing trampoline dancing games with E.
Rested & relaxed.
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Up; three hour constructive TDF board call. J. got
some painting done, out for a walk.
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Mail chew, lots of de-motivated neergh. Out for
a run. New gamer chair arrived - cheap & perhaps
cheerful, lets see.
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Catch up with Muhammet, COOL community call,
poked at a bug; ESC call. Did some hackery to inline
versions into stack-traces we log to dis-ambiguate
things.
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Mail chew, reviewed the ongoing RMS fiasco fallout,
what an epic, and completely avoidable waste of time and
squandering of goodwill. Worse one that despite more moderate
statements has been siezed upon to create more division and
distract the argument from leadership competence and/or
the FSF's lack of representative governance into extreme
ideological distractions; upsetting.
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Sales call, catch up with Andras.
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Catch-up with Kendy, chat with Tor. Finally got
the PCC minutes put together. Called our builder to try
to work out if they still exist. Customer call.
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Up late with a rather nuanced discussion.
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Took kids to school; weekly planning call.
- Read the news; oh dear. Previously I was willing to cut Richard
a lot
of slack on the grounds that I don't think attacking hippies for
being that is terribly broad minded and inclusive. However. The way
in which Richard totally failed to engage with any nuance of his
critics' arguments, articulate any degree of personal growth, give
any ways to address concerns about his behavior is & was in my
view horribly disrespectful to those who (often at some risk)
raised those concerns.
In my book you don't have to agree, but you do have to listen.
An indefensible lack of finesse & clear communication for a leader.
Or did I miss something.
Very disappointing indeed, and probably symptomatic of the problems
RMS and the FSF have.
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Catch up with Miklos, Cor, managed to miss my weekly
mgmt meeting.
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Up late, on-line service, out for a walk with
the family; relaxed variously.
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Mended H's chair by angle-grinding a slot into the
broken grub-screw & un-screwing it. D. over for lunch.
Got into some plumbing action, sealed gaps under the
kitchen units with M's help. Fine dinner, played bananagrams.
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Chap round to look at our apple tree - all good.
Interview, lengthy contract review.
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Called and then texted the UK Census people to
try to get a number to file; no number, unfortunate -
hours of free-phone music to enjoy.
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Watched Romeo & Juliet with the littlies.
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COOL Community meeting, picked up kids, more bug
and marketing review; customer/partner call.
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Sales call with Eloy, lots of bug triage, close and
review with Aron. Monthly all-hands, interview.
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Delayed planning call, monthly mgmt. call, mail, admin.
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Took babes to school, Addenbrooks visit, mail chew,
admin, tickets. A 3m tall tree delivery from a lovely friend
arrived.
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Nice chap from Catton Windows arrived, inspected door
broken by burglars for replacement interesting.
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Very pleased to listen to Hauser Live in Zagreb
and remember the collective enjoyment & cross cultural appeal
of beautiful classical music.
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All Saints PCC call, rather late.
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All Saints in the morning - good to be back in the building.
Pizza lunch, relaxed & slugged variously; watched O Brother
Where Art Thou in the evening with the babes.
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Up early; FOSS Asia - an encouraging conference, slides on some of
the new work we're doing:
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Out to get some plumbing pieces - trying the evils of speed-fit;
M. helped to solder up the plumbing - good practice; nice burn while
distracted.
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Catch-up with M&D.
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Admin, TDF employees & board meetings, testing
tickets, planning. Out for a run, worked very late on
FOSSASIA slides.
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Mail chew; testing. Sad to have all of the babes
except E. out to school at lunch time. COOL community
call, catch up with Andras, customer & partner call;
admin.
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Early customer call, Sales call, encouraging old
friend & customer call. Catch-up with Cor .
Up unfeasibly late getting the APCM minutes written up for
last year.
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Catch up with Kendy, more testing, bug-filing, and
a bit of hacking fixing some; nice. Watched another
ycombinator startup video with H.
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Planning call, testing, admin, E-mail. Put up a
wardrobe for N. in the evening.
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All Saints online family service in the morning.
Lunch, caught up with L&T happily. D. over for a walk
and then dinner.
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Caught up with M&D. - lovely to see them
lunch. Put up
coat-hangers with E. in the afternoon: somehow a
more cluttered house seems friendlier to me - is
minimalism too much?
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Mail chew, call with Lubos & Miklos, worked on
some data crunching / modelling in COOL/Calc - filed bugs,
and fixed a double-click to rename sheet annoyance quickly.
Catch-up with Szymon.
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Out for a run.
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Chat with Muhammet, COOL community meeting. Lunch.
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Picked up Mac/ARM prototype from the office to
ship back - good to see the place and evelikov. Customer
call.
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Fixed a forgotten but rather trivial ticket, good
to do a little coding.
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Slides, poked at various patches & feature pieces.
Great to read Muhammet's latest COOL community
roundup.
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Collabora Productivity Partner Council call & feedback -
encouraging to have such a switched on, and engaged set of people to
work together with.
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Patch review, builders returned to varnish & caulk
this & that snag; mercifully removed several cubic metres of
un-needed surplus materials, leaving only several behind.
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Read about the z-Architecture, interested to
hear of their XML parsing (and db2 acceleraton) zIIP co-processor:
we could use that.
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Planning call, worked away at admin, slides etc.
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Received a battery of health test results, all fine except for
the obvious somatic disease; good. Got 2nd workbench installed in the
Garage - with N's help - nice.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
