Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Mail chew, planning call, patch review. Lunch with H.
and M.
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If you know someone interested in promoting FLOSS and helping
Collabora to build a business that can sustain and grow its contribution
who has skills in marketing, and is capable of working with hacker-types ?
please do direct them to our new a
marketing role.
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All Saints in the morning (school leavers service), H.
on piano; home for a chicken salad in the garden; missed Laura.
Took M. and N. to StAG / punting, watched Snatch with H. picked
up babes, bed.
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Mihai and team worked on getting trimming up around our
un-rendered house facade; and the surfaces smoothed out; looking
lovely.
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J&H. out to get flooring, did misc. admin, booked
home in Italy for some days in the summer - looking forward to
a break.
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A chunk of maths revision with E. interesting how the
algebra bit^wwet-rots with time and other subjects. Emily over
for dinner, watched some Man vs. Bee.
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Admin, continued working back through mail. Took E. and
her friends to an escape-room in Cambridge and went to see David.
Back for pizza dinner & rest. E's friends around for a sleepover.
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Mihai & team arrived early, got them setup - lovely job
plastering room in a day.
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Pleased to see TheRegister write up the new
CODE
22.05 release.
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Catch up with Miklos, partner call, COOL community call bits,
call with Philippe & an old friend.
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Today Collabora's app-store experiment with LibreOffice Vanilla
was ended. In time we will write up and publish the data more widely,
make final donations to TDF and as/when sensible finish up some Mac work
in due course. Many thanks to all those who
worked
hard over the years to get LibreOffice into many app-stores - you rock.
Of course - you can still get Collabora
Office for your Mac, and help to support FOSS development that way.
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Slide work with Eloy much of the morning.
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Really pleased to see so much work from the team, and
the wider community released as Collabora
Online 22.05 - a first cut of our next round of development
work around the next-generation Collabora Online - quicker,
slicker, better, prettier and more.
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Partner Council - really good to catch up with and
get feedback from our partners -
companies making awesome things happen in the world of FLOSS.
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Community & partner call later. Sync with Miklos.
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Band practice early with H. in the evening, Beckie's
birthday.
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Mail, team testing session; marketing review,
Partner Council slide review late in the evening.
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Mail chew, new-look, quicker planning call; missed Gokay.
Patch review, dentist appointment & then TDF board call -
the Dentist was fun - a new chap.
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All Saints, played with the band. Home for a pizza lunch.
Read to the babes a bit, Chris, Leanna & Annabelle over to
see us for a bit and borrow some tools. Enjoyed the sun together.
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Up lateish; pottered around - strimmed some things with
birthday present. David over for lunch, relaxed for a bit,
sawed bits off door corners so they opened more fully &
safely & painted them up.
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Mail chew, tried to catch up ineffectively with the backlog.
Went to see M. at her Prom - looking lovely, and smiley in a pretty
yellow dress from Amelia. Natchos for diner, hunted for H. at a
choice of railway stations. Collected M. from a sleep-over via
McDonalds, bed too late.
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Up early, breakfast, took babes to school; worked
around the breakfast table happily. Took Eloy, Miklos &
Andras to Stansted.
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Mail chew; caught up with family.
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Up early; took babes to school; into Cambridge.
More meeting action, catch-up with Caolan over lunch.
Lots more working through of topics, round-up. Back to
Newmarket for a dinner at Unico, slugged in the evening
together variously.
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Into Cambridge to the office for meetings for
much of the day - lovely to have an in-person meet
again. Chewed over the strategic issues together,
lunch & back to work.
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Out for a wander through Cambridge, punting,
fine steak dinner (met Tashie), drove home via the
office. Up late.
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Mail chew, catch-up with admin & slide prep.
M. home - getting to the end of exams. Out shopping with
Eloy to stock up for the team's arrival.
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Caught up with Eloy in the garden, BBQ, picked
up Miklos & Andras together from Stansted. Kendy
arrived late.
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Up early, into town, breakfast in the castle court, enjoyed
choir practice and some quiet prayer in the Cathedral. Off to see H.
before heading to Kings Church Durham
having a baptism service in the student union for one of H's friends.
Lovely service.
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Lugged more baggage to the car, lunch at Hatfield, met
with Elize. Bid a fond 'bye to H. drove to my parents. Lovely tea,
cake, presents, swinging seat construction, too short: drove home.
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Met up with the babes & Eloy.
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Into Durham, via Tesco for breakfast: amazed to see a
Deliveroo chap (presumably) delivering Tesco cafe breakfasts.
Got some picnic food. Off to see H.
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Had a very lovely time catching up with Mark Miller
at the Whitechurch pub; a ~twenty year gap gives a lot to catch
up on.
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On to Wharton Park to meet up with Chris & Joy, S&E.
enjoyed some fine views, good company, a birthday picnic. Wandered
back to H's room, did some work with her before heading to Newcastle
for a lovely dinner & catch-up with them. An encouraging branch
of the wider family.
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Caught up with R&A&boys in the morning, got R'
setup to work. Quick packing and set off to Ilkley with J. for
a birthday/20th' anniversary trip: fun. Caught up with Auntie
Nicky, on to Durham. Met up with H. lovely to see her - out
for some Thai food.
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To the hotel, enjoyed the nearby pool / spa.
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Catch up with Miklos, COOL community call, plugged away
at bug-fixing a particularly nasty delta related race around
versioning tiles, cancellation and more - finally nailed it.
Catch up with Andras, caught the end of the ESC.
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Rob & Amelia arrived with the boys after dinner.
Caught up with them happily.
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Sales call with Eloy, helped David S move some giant perlings
for his attic conversion with some friends. Finished the sales call.
Catch-up with Frank & Gokay.
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Worked on some delta cache management pieces - cutting down
the number of FIXMEs that are left and scaling the delta cache with
the user count in a document.
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E's birthday - presents at breakfast. Mail chew;
1:1 with Kendy, planned in-person mgmt meeting, updated
projections. Booked hotel room.
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Mail chew, planning call, marketing catch-up, partner
call. Dinner. Minuted a busy PCC meeting in the evening.
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Up, brief scripture & reflection from David, sung a song,
drove to Dedham for a fine walk in the forest. Enjoyed lunch together,
and David McGrath kindly drove me & Simon back.
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Lovely to see the family again; tea with David in the garden;
watched the end of a movie, bed early.
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Up earlyish, English Breakfast at the quay, caught a small
ferry across the river stour, and walked for some hours around a
rather fine piece of English countryside. Lunch watching a view
over the river, lots of interesting conversation - back to base.
Out for a Turkish dinner.
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Packed for the mens walking weekend.
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As TDF changes its approach
to app-store packaging I thought it would be worth
taking some time to look back and try to thank everyone that has
done such excellent
work over the years. I hope I didn't miss anyone - though of
course I have several Linux packaging heros that are (arguably)
not per-se app-store packagers I had to miss out: Rene, Petr,
Fridrich and no doubt more.
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David picked me up, collected Simon N too, off to Harwich to
stay in an old fire-station with Men of Faith from All Saints.
Chatted happily, enjoyed Beckie's cake, walked along the shore,
fish & chip supper; up late.
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Catch up with Miklos, COOL community call. Lunch,
ESC call. Took M. to the doctor's.
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Chased a nasty delta crasher - obviously each tile
could only be compressed / delta'd once - it would be
madness to have the same tile listed twice. Except - we do
sometimes: added lots of assertions; fixed that. Lovely
Ubisan stack trace dumping fixage from Andras pointed at
exactly the problem immediately - lovely. Faster, and
better too.
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Dropped babes to school, mail chew, sales call with Eloy,
debugged a few more issues with 22.05 while editing.
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Helped M. with some physics, abortive band-practice: not
here at the weekend, worked late. Poked at Ubisan to find out how
to encourage it to print traces more reliably on detected badness.
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Planning call; mail chew - got my blog re-located
finally to
https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael after
something of a hiatus caused by the demise of
people.gnome.org - that lets me continue to be
a dinosaur and generate RSS manually and so on.
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Why is it always at the very end of the day, when I
need to quit and emerge from my lair - that I'm most productive:
in the 'stolen time' from my family? Perhaps this is the secret
sauce behind the four day week ?
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Thought this was a bank holiday, but apparently wrong.
Posted things, returned a substantial wrecking bar of the wrong
length. Collected medicine for M.
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Played at Barry Bushel's funeral & caught up with
friends & family afterwards.
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Home, chat with Kendy. Finally managed to catch the
focus loss bug on save that drives me up the wall in 22.05.
Mail chew.
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All Saints in the morning; Mary Rogers home for lunch, back
in the afternoon for a Jubliee celebration - talked to lots of
interesting people popping past by the church until late
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Watched Jack Ryan with the babes bed early.
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Up late, scraped back & painted some windows with J.
The profound annoyance of wooden windows! prolly need to turn them
to plastic with wood-hardener over time or something.
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Watched Passengers with the babes, implemented some
bandwidth measurement for the deltas work in the evening - encouraging
improvements for cool 22.05.
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Mail chew, admin. Sue & Clive over in the afternoon,
lovely to catch up with them. Lazed in the garden together for a
while before playing games indoors together.
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Caught up with Miklos, COOL community call, misc.
meetings in the afternoon. Catch-up with Philippe.
Fun catch-up with Sean in the evening interrupted by a
Kebab delivery - reading LOTR together in the evenings.
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Sales & Marketing call with Eloy. Some user feedback
& Product Mgmt ranking pieces.
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Catch up with Kendy, N. out to a party. Distracted by some
performance hacking fun - made delta-generation very much faster,
spent a while reading hotspot profiles.
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Planning call much of the morning; catch up with Sophie,
CRM call with William, Andras, Eloy. Partner call, out for a run
with J. part of a TDF board call.
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All Saints, new Vicar announced; home for pizza and some
slugging. Watched Meet the Parents with the babes, bed.
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Some code review; played with diamond concrete grinder
trying to avoid silicosis, loss of eyesight & hearing loss
concurrently with some trouble.
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Helped J. in the garden removing hedge stumps, with our
neighbour Russell's help.
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Mail chew; poked at profiles. Catch up with Noel,
positive catch-up with Frank, interesting times.
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Sync with Miklos, COOL community call, Lunch. Plugged
away at some profiling action - pushed some low hanging fruit -
always nice to find and fix.
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Helped J. dig a giant root from the hedge out.
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Took babes to school; sales call with Eloy, picked
up Miriam from school; lunch with N. too.
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Sync with Ash & Tor on chroot & file
management for fonts. Plugged away at adapting deltas to
unit tests.
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All Saints band practice; merged deltas - lets see
what testing shows.
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Sync with Kendy; ISO 9k1/27k1 call with Hannah & Herman.
Lunch.
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Admin; long catch-up call with Eloy.
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Reading LOTR to the family in the evening - fun. Worked on
Deltas a bit - got another chunk of code merged with them disabled.
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Took M. to a GCSE, mail chew, planning calls, M.
dropped home. Lunch with N. too.
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Mail chew, some research, poked at build issues;
turns out having the latest libstdc++ from gcc is really
important for clang.
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Whiteboard turned out to be a hit with E. who
covered it with comic drawings.
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All Saints, played, back for pork stew lunch.
Lazed in the sun in the garden, under a shade-sail
in J's lap - lovely. Watched Walter Mitty in the evening.
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Had a fine time at David's helping with the guttering;
hopefully sealed everything up and replaced this & that
nicely. Lunch, had a go at holly-tree trimming up a ladder
together.
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Home, put up a white-board, had a chat with H.
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Mail chew; catch-up with Andras, conference paper
submission. Worked on deltas happily.
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Mail chew; some catch-up, 1:1 with Miklos, COOL community
call, catch-up with Pedro. Plugged away at the admin backlog.
White-board arrived, hopefully in-range of a web-cam somehow -
perhaps drawing big pictures is the real solution.
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Bible Study group in the evening, good to see Thomas too.
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Breakfast with Marc, Sales call with Eloy, packed,
more sales downstairs; bit tired; Marc did a workshop, lunch.
Bid 'bye to the remaining people. Set off for train station.
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Hacked in the plane a little left & right. Drove
back. Lovely to be home with J. and family again.
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Up early, breakfast with Marc, off to a theatre
for the (very impressive) Univention Summit. Talked with attendees,
and old friends and partners much of the day.
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Enjoyed some talks with live translation too. Dinner
in the evening together, back to the hotel bar & up until
very late.
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Up unfeasibly early, drove to Stansted - flight to
Bremen, checked in - planning call; Kebap for lunch; calls
with MikeK & Kendy, Tracie.
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Met up with Marc, out for a pre-dinner together with
a number of Univention Summit attendees.
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All Saints, chatted to all and sundry after the
service. Home for Pizza, N. not feeling at all good.
Julie & Isaac over, relaxed with the family.
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Watched with E. and J. tea, packed for tomorrow.
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Worked on slides in the morning, recorded video
& sent it out. Out to Screwfix with J. bought a 230mm
Mac angle grinder and some blades - interesting.
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Call with a potential partner & demo. Sad news
around marketing , 1:1 with Eloy, Gokay,
Kendy. Out for a run with J.
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Worked on slides for the Univention Summit until
late.
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Catch-up with Miklos, COOL community call: not the same
with Pedro on vaction, catch up with Andras, mail & admin.
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Sales call & catch-up with Eloy; worked on deltas,
catch-up with Gokay.
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More delta work - got down to 20 patches outstanding,
and lots of other important bits merged eg.
make czech.
Thought it was working nicely until demo'ing to Kendy in our 1:1
fun.
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Lunch with J. Back to deltas, catch up with Simon,
deltas, dinner, deltas.
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Planning call much of the morning; started working on
re-basing deltas, squashing pieces out & getting everything
that will compile and run by itself into master with some
success, down to just 40 patches.
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All Saints, played Beckie's guitar & worship -
with lots of good songs - although weak ensemble since we
can't hear each other well.
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Pizza lunch, slugged in the garden; watched
Kiki's delivery service with E. picked the babes
up, and to bed.
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Up late, helped H. with some electronics, and
babes with some revision. Rested variously with J.
Lunch.
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David over, sat outside under the shade sail
& chatted, put up a gate catch, rested variously.
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Worked late on deltas with some success.
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Catch up with Andras, out for a run with J. Mail
patch-review & merging. Rotated my office somehow,
fast laptop still struggling tearing 4k youtube even
over display-port - interesting, no doubt a software issue.
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Catch up with Miklos, COOL community call, partner
debugging session: some user-agent / poly-fill JS horror in
the end. Lunch. Catch-up with Andras. More mail chew &
admin - poked at Skia/PPC somewhat.
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Sales meeting, catch-up with William, setup Intel/Thinkpad -
hopefully it will resume after suspend.
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Partner call, catch up with Gokay.
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Catch up with Kendy & Simon, caught up with mail, fixed
a chunk of FIXMEs in the online / delta work.
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Partner call & planning call in parallel.
B&A over for lunch, quiche and home-made doughnuts.
Talked for a while together. Out to look at a local
bungalo.
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Caught up some mail & code. Chat with H.
helped M. with some maths, ordered a new Lenovo laptop
to replace the ~catastrophic Dell G5s Ryzen 4800H -
horrible suspend/resume problems - disappears & never
returns, no logging, no errors, grim, well known & un-fixed.
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All Saints in the morning, canned music, APCM meeting.
Len came back for a pizza lunch; lovely to get to know him a bit
better. Watched Skyfall in the evening with E. collected N.
& M. from StAG.
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Plugged away at some building / concreting work with E.
now a rather skilled pad-stone manoeverer (with jack) - fun.
Lunch.
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Catch up with Gokay, Pedro & Szymon, chat with Jos.
Helped H. with some engineering revision on Jitsi.
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Men of Faith fish & chip dinner at All Saints.
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Catch-up with Miklos, COOL community call, quarterly C'bra
mgmt meeting until late.
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Tried to get wxPython setup on a Mac for a customer;
somewhat nightmarish, sometimes I despair of the Linux Desktop -
and then I see a Windows machine where an update has irreparably
broken screen brightness or somesuch and marvel.
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Sales catch-up, quarterly C'bra mgmt meeting much of the day
until late.
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Up late - blackout blinds; sync with Kendy (who also is
a Colin
Furze watcher; sync with Simon, worked on some marketing together.
Catch up with Eloy, contract work, marketing bits.
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Planning call; lunch, partner call, poked at planning
and LinkedIn, catch-up with Philippe.
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Out for a run with J. Put up Bloc-blinds in the bedroom
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All Saints in the morning, just me and (2 metre) Peter -
without having practiced: survived for the most part. Home for
a Pizza lunch.
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Slugged, J. took babes to StAG, watched The
Hunt for Red October with E. Rested.
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Played with E. in the morning, made some mortar together
and started improving the drive. Lunch, David over - chatted,
fixed up some wiring for roses, removed an ivy root, sealed the
garage door a bit better.
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Lynn and Esther over in the evening, watched Silent
Witness with J.
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Catch up with Eloy, admin, lunch, call with Cor, more E-mail,
poked at projections, reviewed Ash' save patches.
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Watched Get Smart in the evening with E. it could
use a sequal.
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Starting to feel somewhat better - good. Parents car not
charged enough in the morning: vampire drains over-taking the
trickle-charger? Took babes to school, made some jump-leads from
scrap cabling off-cuts - and jump started their car with some
help from M&D.
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Helped to get H. sorted out and off to University - so
lovely to have her around, sad to see her go.
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1:1 with Miklos, COOL community call, lunch, 1:1 with
Andras, chats with Jos & Simon. Booked flights for Univention
Summit, dinner.
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Back to E-mail and the backlog. Leo over in the evening
for home-group, lovely to catch-up with him.
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Wedding Anniversary - twenty blissful years. Lots
of nice cards - lovely.
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To work, a bit of E-mail, poked at slides, CP
monthly all-hands.
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Out for a lovely walk with the parents in the
afternoon at Lynford Arboretum - some fine trees, and
a potter around together - must be getting old.
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Chinese take-out treat in the evening, thanks to
M&D.
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Catch up with Mike & Kendy, Lunch,
quarterly mgmt call, more E-mail backlog beat-back.
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Discovered parents' Prius battery discharged
due to leaving the light on: odd to de-couple the 12V
systems from the (charged) motive battery. Left it
trickle-charging overnight.
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Up lateish; cooked breakfast with the family. Out to St
Albans together to meet up with S&C & boys - played in
the park together in the sun - still feeling throaty. Bid 'bye
to R&A and boys.
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Home, did some work with H. before she went out for
the evening.
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All off to church, celebrated variously - easter-egg hunt
in the graveyard afterwards with the babes - walked home in the sun.
J. stayed for Leo's baptism, snacked and chatted in the garden
together - J. back - big lamb roast lunch.
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Played with the babes; talked until late at night with R.
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Bit of wiring in the garage with Father; helped H.
with some project research. Lunch together, R&A and boys
arrived late - lovely to see them, up late.
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Up late, rested somewhat, out for a walk with M&D,
M&E along the dyke nearby, shade-sail up in the garden
& lunch outside - a lovely hot day.
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David over, got insulated plasterboard stabilized by
injecting foam behind it, set too getting the floor fitted
with David's help - and some success; managed to (somehow)
almost level the floor with packing pieces.
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Dinner, dunged out the U-bend in a parlous state in
N&M's bathroom.
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Still feeling poor; out to Ridgeons to get supplies; set-too
cutting out & re-siliconing the top bathroom shower seal.
Interrupted by a friendly fencer - caught up with Sue & Russel.
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Parents arrived in the evening, watched some Colin
Furze with Father and rested.
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Still feeling poor. Helped J. with the shopping -
it's amazing what she does to feed us all. Triaged E-mail
to try to keep it down.
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Up late, caught up my blog since Jan 27th in a block.
Still in something of a haze.
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Feeling awful; planning calls. B&A over - stayed
away from them while trying to catch up - slept through the
afternoon exhaustedly.
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Late night work with Eloy (on vacation).
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All-Saints, precautionary mask wearing despite
another clear COVID test.
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Put up Trampoline again after the winds, and
clipped it to the house. Managed to give a bike to
Cedric - slowly empting the garage of unused stuff.
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David over, managed to get the tricky insulated
plasterboard pieces above and around the door together
having stuck some timber into the RSJ above it - 100mm
phosphate screws are the bees knees. Ran out of foam.
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Ham, eggs &. chips for tea - nice.
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Feeling pretty awful; took much of the day off; modulo
FOSS Asia presentation - great to be back there. Cut the grass:
walking slowly up & down is about my limit.
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Feeling pretty awful - not COVID it seems though;
worked on & off.
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Joint COOL presentation with our partner Redpill Linpro;
weekly sales call, monthly Productivity developers show-and-tell.
Worked on slides for FOSS-Asia talk tomorrow.
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Discovered my blog is down - apparently I had missed
the notification: bother; kindly provided with a backup
of the last ~20 years of random up-loads/backups/slides & blog
bits from there: 1.8Gb.
Fond memories of when such things were stored at unam.mx in the very early days
of GNOME.
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Been wondering what to do about my blog anyway - some
people complain(ed) about the personal content - it's not
technical-enough and presumably ragged around the edges. They want
a tag so they can ignore the personal pieces - and can instead get
pure engineering updates - as if from some corporate entity. I'm
not impressed by such requests for several reasons:
- Hacker communities are made of people - not corporate
clones: people are wonderfully different & have real lives,
and interests. Its important to remember that communities
are not this homogeneous professional blob - they are made
of diverse experiences, viewpoints and interests.
- Reminding people that their software is created and
maintained by a fun but motley crew of random co-beligerents
can stop them getting the idea that they get a polished,
professional product for free - which is quite helpful
for the ecosystem who sell that.
- My blog is run from some legacy pybloxsm software from
emacs and I have little-to-no time to adapt it to make it
easier for people to read only the worker-bee part of it.
They are more than welcome to read none of it.
- My technical content is increasingly less substantial
these days I fear - primarily I do a lot of sales and
management which - while interesting & encouraging
doesn't lend itself to early publication.
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Have spent some holiday to catch up, and will try to get some
new hosting.
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Planning calls, early Sales & Marketing call -
trying to make some calendar space for a holiday.
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All Saints; Mike Geach over for a pizza lunch,
lovely to catch up with him again; rested variously.
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J. took E. to The Ark at Isleham for a YFC all-day
event: climbing, laser-quest and all sorts of useful teaching.
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Managed to get roller-door removed, and new window
frames fitted - glazing sealed in properly this time, and
surrounds added. Hung doors, foam & frame sealant all
around, and - bingo - something approaching a room starts
to appear.
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More delta work, good to have Henry helping out too,
merged some of his changes to my branch.
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Slept poorly; un-screwed leaking drain with H's help.
Wow; full of solids nearly to the brim, after some investigation
discovered the hole filled with a metre cubed bulk sand bag and
some rocks: which had been acting as a solid filter presumably
since construction by Pete Mathews Home Improvements Ltd. not
great. Set too trowling the volume down with H's help.
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Interupted by a pleasant call with Simon & Nick
at Linux Format and lunch.
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Worked on delta cache pieces until J. returned.
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Finally solved the plumbing issue by the evening; grim.
You don't realize how wonderful modern sanitation is until it
doesn't work.
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Shut the bathrooms draining into the dodgy manhole;
still have some free capacity luckiy. Waited for drain people
to arrive.
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Sales call, some marketing bits; more delta debugging.
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No-one arrived to charge us some hundreds of pounds to
unblock the drains by the late evening - hey ho.
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Managed to reproduce an annoying Online crash; Aron
got a nice reproducer good to get that fixed. Discovered the
drains not draining - things from upstairs coming out
downstairs: not cool. Called emergency drain un-blockers -
picked the one that gave a quote in pounds for tomorrow.
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Pleased to find SSL issue fixed & released.
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Planning calls; came to do tax & annual accounting
to discover a failed bank-pin RSA dongle - why is the battery
not user-serviceable ? odd.
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All Saints, J. ran Kids For Christ (KFC). Relaxed.
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Building in the garage with David; got more of the next
wall insulated, plaster-boarded and so on.
-
Up very late working with Ash on a rather surprising SSL
related regression.
-
Some hacking time at last - lots of progress on improving
delta + keyframe compression and storage - nice. Catch-up call
with Gerald.
-
Relaxed and caught up with H. who helped with the garage
building work somewhere here.
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N. got a positive COVID test - and started self-isolating,
M. to the dentist, H. home - really lovely to see her after so long.
COOL community call, admin etc.
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Sales calls, band practice.
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Took babes to school; planning calls; mail chew,
marketing catch-up.
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All Saints; fine lunch, slugging.
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David over; got much more stud-work with ply screwed
to the garage ceiling, floor, fibre-glass into sections and
plasterboard onto the back wall.
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Mail & admin catch-up, sync with Gokay. Got some
cable pulls sorted out in the garage.
-
1:1's, COOL community call, catch-up with Julian
Seward - its been too long - really missing in-persons like
FOSDEM.
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Debugged delta pieces, monotonic timestamps and so on.
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Sales meeting; Productivity monthly all-hands meeting,
band practice.
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1:1's, slides, monthly mgmt meeting.
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Planning calls, catch-up with Olivier Paroz; All Saints
PCC meeting in the evening.
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All Saints, Kelsey over for lunch - lovely to get
to know her a bit better.
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David over; dunged out the garage, built beautiful timber
frames overlayed with ply-wood and perfectly square. Fitted them
into place to discover the concrete floor and/or ceiling is far
from level; time for expanding-foam and packers.
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Catch-up call with Rash, worked on slides variously.
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COOL Community call, various 1:1s, bits of hacking,
catch-up with Peter G.
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E-mail catch-up, sales call, band practice, finished
solding up the Geiger Counter - getting around ~1 scintilation
each second or two on average: not very sensitive I suspect -
hopefully sees more than passing muons.
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Breakfast & meetings in the morning, train, plane
home again - good to be back.
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Up earlyish, day of meetings - interesting people
lots of good things going on. Dinner in the evening together.
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All Saint in the morning, B&A, S&C & boys over
for a lovely lunch; got a train to Heathrow - first time back
on the road after endless lock-downs. Arrived in Hamburg, got
to the Hotel, sleep.
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Set too soldering components, David over too - E. turns
out to be the only person who can fit through a tiny gap - at
least one of the family can.
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Worked with Ash on a Secure View talk; call with Florian,
catch-up with Gokay. Men of Faith pot-luck dinner at AllSaints
in the evening.
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Catch up with Miklos, COOL community call, call with Andras;
got some hacking done on deltas.
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DIY Geiger Counter PCB and components showed up: available
on github
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Sales call, competitor chat, customer call, catch up
with Gokay - life seems to be mostly calls these days.
Band practice.
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Team 1:1's variously, Nextcloud catch-up, sales call.
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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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Customer crit-sit, up all night testing & trying to
diagnose the root cause.
-
Caught up with Dave Neary, now at Ampere - its
been too long without an in-person FOSDEM or the like.
-
Work; always feel a bit bad buying a valentines day
card multi-pack. Took J out in the evening - such a delightful
wife.
-
Planning call much of the morning; tried to air the
formaldehyde smell from out-gassing book-shelves from the
room somehow without letting the cold in.
-
All Saints, David came over, slugged variously.
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Visited Bruce & Anne, lovely to see them.
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Shelves arrived from IKEA (finally), TDF employees call,
encouraging customer/partner call, mail, encouraging meet up with
Arawa's great team; catch up with Eloy, Gokay, and an interestig
west-coast start-up. Admin, mail, minutes, catch-up.
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Catch up with Miklos & Andras; COOL community
call. Sorted out purple. C'bra quarterly mgmt call much
of the afternoon and evening; caught up with frenzy of
detailed task backlog in parallel.
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Finally got to TDF budget ranking; tweaked my
ssh-config for gerrit thanks to mst & erAck.
PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes ssh-rsa did it
for gerrit.
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Transferred H. money for university food &
shelter.
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Took babes to school, CS3 interspersed with sales call
with Eloy; catch-up with Gokay. C'bra quarterly mgmt call much
of the afternoon - caught up with admin in parallel.
-
Planning call, TDF marketing call; worked on
CS3 slides until late, called Pad.
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Planning call, TDF marketing call; worked on
CS3 slides until late.
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All Saints, 2m Peter played the Organ well; sang
with Mary. Bob spoke, home for roast lunch. Slugged
vigorously; picked up babes from StAG in the evening.
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Up lateish, breakfast with the crowd; got the garage
tidied up again. Worked on J's counselling room facade -
routed up the door sill, managed to take ~all the teeth off
the circular saw removing the top 1cm of the frame: which
made it substantially harder to cut with. Eventually cut
it down to size.
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FOSDEM slides, recorded & up-loaded video -
looking forward to it; set to work on CS3 slides,
talk with Simon, catch up with Gokay.
-
Helped N. tidy the house, picked up Charlie,
and got to work making the garage habitable for boys:
amazingly there is a concrete floor under the dust.
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Lots of N's friends turned up for 17th birthday
party & sleepover; good to see them, tried to teach
several lads to play 'go'. Left them to it, 2:30am the
singing stopped, 3:30 - boys out to the garage to sleep.
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1:1's, COOL community call; discussion of the
color purple: fun.
-
Wonderful to see the team release
COOL 21.11
today - with all the goodness of CODE, and some new RTL
functionality for our Arabic, Hebrew and other Indic users
online.
-
Catch up with Dennis, sales call, monthly all-hands
call. Release material review, TDF Advisory Board call.
All Saints, practice singing.
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Press pre-briefing on COOL 21.11, catch up with Simon,
monthly mgmt call, mail chew.
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New-approach to planning calls, mail, catch up with Philippe.
-
Up early sawed a barrel in half to grow potatoes
in for Father, re-arranged the garage contents a bit; lunch.
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Drove home, sermon in the car, dinner with the babes;
relaxed variously.
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Up earlyish, breakfast. Got support prepared by Dad screwed
into the attic, wire through, ceiling switch mounted and wired. Out
to visit a friend of Mum's who kindly lent H. a lovely full-size
Viola.
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Home - back onto wiring with Father; a fine lunch. Drove H.
to Durham, and managed to get her bits back to her study with E's
help. Wandered through the Cathedral, and out for a coffee with
her friend - lovely. Bid a fond farewell.
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Drove home, dinner, watched Cinderella & had snacks
with the parents.
-
Sync with Gokay, TDF board calls, catch up with Frank,
go/no-go decision call with Ash, Gokay, patch review etc.
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Packed left N. and M. at home, and drove to M&D's.
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Chat with Miklos, partner call, COOL community
call. Lunch with H, sync with Eloy, partner call.
Provider check-in, caught end of the ESC, customer call.
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Sales call, catch up with Eloy, Andras, Gokay.
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Catch-up with Mike K, Kendy, Simon L, mail chew.
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Into town with J. and H. to meet up with N. for
a birthday celebration at Nandos together.
-
Monster planning-call 2.5hrs - the joys of
approaching release time? Intro call for Italo, Mike
& Simon L. Partner discussion.
-
All Saints; band. Pizza lunch, relaxed variously
with the family in the afternoon..
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Chewed at mail & some hackery in the morning.
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David over in the afternoon, present opening;
played with arranging Spot-It cards into a 7x7 grid with
some vanishing points ineffectually for a while before
cheating.
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Got timber joinery sorted, and glued together,
dinner, relaxed together.
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Mail chew, prioritization, patch review, some hacking.
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Durham switched to online teaching for two weeks for
H. so she could stay home for a bit longer: fun; re-arranged
the weekend with M&D.
-
Various 1:1's, COOL community call, catch up with Gokay,
poked at tickets & bugs, caught some of the ESC call.
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Susan around for house-group, chatted with her and J.
happily.
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Weekly sales call, team dev show & tell - lots of
encouraging goodness being created. Call with Gokay.
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Started adjusting window frame for the garage, cut a
suitable mortice in the nice mahogony.
-
Various 1:1's, catch-up with Ezinne, poked at delta
generation, and customer pieces.
-
Mail chew, planning call, J. got the decorations down,
caught up with Simon L, plugged at admin, continued reading back
through E-mail; out for a run with J.
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All Saints with H. in the morning; dropped H. at the
train, home for a Pizza lunch with Hannah, Nick & Joni
played games with them; lovely to catch-up.
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Out for a walk with J. H. M. E. - passed the somewhat
extraordinary Suffolk Hedgehog Hospital: (Hedge-hogs, why can't
they share?) - and had a nice walk around Ousden and admired
what looks like a bunker on Back Street.
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Spent some considerable time adding a lock to
our en-suite toilet door; can finally put router &
jigs away after their long service - good.
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Hacking until midnight - ooh it's addictive; got
compressed deltas almost working with zlib - lots of
bandwidth and CPU savings left & right I hope.
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