Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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All Saints, lunch, went to collect M. and N. together -
lovely building, apparently somewhat cold.
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Just E. at home - up early and took her to Go-Ape in
Thetford to swing through the trees together: fair-do's - just
as with the others; but somehow a decade after my first trip
with M. I have more aches. Nice meal afterwards, enoyed spending
time together.
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Sync call with Thorsten/Lothar, last gasp of board bits.
Interesting potential partner call. Took M. and N. to a StAG youth
camp in a rather impressive Catholic castle-like building.
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COOL community call, mail chew, bits of hacking.
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Slideware, encouraging Partner Council call.
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Unusual but friendly call with a competitor.
Positive virtual meet-up with some NHS types.
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Painted RSJs in the garage again - got a cold.
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Caught up with Eloy, mail, slide-ware. Wrote a
unit test for root-cause fix - boost's default encoding
for unknown languages is unhelpful.
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Mail chew; got a debug build of core to chase a nasty
to it root. 1:1's with people.
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Monthly all-hands. Customer crit-sit chasing again.
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New fridge arrived; unwound various cunning schemes
for keeping things cool - plumbed it in, wired it up.
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Sync with Kendy; B&A over for lunch, ate up
lots of older, partially thawed food.
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Monthly mgmt call; worked late.
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Planning calls as normal.
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J. out at her course, N & M at GenR8 - played with E.
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Fridge compressor now starting at least, but cuts out
after a short while of cooling, and sounds unusual. Gave in and
ordered new fridge/freezer - hopefully for another 15 years.
Put up mirror for J, tidied up etc.
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Hammerited steels in the Garage - aleady rusting despite
de-humidification: hmm, primed timber-window frame
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Call with H. debugged some unexpected oddness in her Arduineo
coding together.
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Fridge failed ~15 years old - (Samsung) compressor still
working - soldered in a spare new relay in 5 minutes: should be
user service-able and socketed like motor brushes really.
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Last TDF board meeting: deeply ambivalent about the state
of TDF governance as I leave; thank goodness for the many capable
new board members elected.
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Worked on projections.
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Meetings, COOL community call.
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Sales call, catch up with Gokay; band practice.
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Caught up with Lubos & Noel.
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More data, continued on customer crit-sit until late;
discovered lots of brokenness in their own infra.
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Catch up with Eloy; helped Hannah with some curious
matlab programming language: who knew that the
input()
type function would do variable substitution by default:
most un-expected; lovely to chat with her.
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Customer crit-sit, up all night testing & trying to
diagnose the root cause.
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Caught up with Dave Neary, now at Ampere - its
been too long without an in-person FOSDEM or the like.
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Work; always feel a bit bad buying a valentines day
card multi-pack. Took J out in the evening - such a delightful
wife.
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license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
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)
