Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up early, sync with Dave, Tracie & a partner.
Encouraging monthly all-hands. Collabora quarterly mgmt
meeting for much of the afternoon.
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Published the next strip: Draft Governance Rules
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Planning call, sync with Karen, marketing content-call.
Monthly management meeting, CEO call, tried to catch-up on mail.
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Back to work, started on the mail backlog - lots of it.
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Published the next strip: more users or contributors?
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Interview, chat with Naomi, sync with Eloy.
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Up earlyish, played with H. in the morning - lots of Organ
welly - somewhat plagued by a stuck key on the swell organ. A joyful
Easter noise for Mary's last music group appearance.
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Back for Pizza lunch with the whole family, slugged in the
sun, tried to get Stiga mower to mow the front garden with rather
limited success. Snoozed.
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Prepared evening service music with N. and played together
at Church - lovely; Florence spoke.
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Up earlyish, off to Godalming for Chris' 80'th birthday
party. Tried to fit together an ad-hoc schedule of music &
poems to celebrate Chris' life & extensive work. A lovely
day with the extended family - thanks to Barbara & Colin and
others for all their hard work organizing it. Home late.
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Up late; foolishly checked E-mail - got stuck
into some contract review, didn't get tasks done -
bother. Wrote cards for some staff.
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Sue&Clive&A&J over lovely to see
them, B&A too to celebrate Easter. Fine lamb lunch,
good to catch up with them .
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B&A drove home, played games with the
cousins left and right - fun.
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Sad news from Italo in the evening.
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Up early, upgraded mower firmware left and right
during quiet-time sitting by it in the garden. Worked to
try to get the paths right - some tricks of remote control.
Discovered that the 'new' web / PC based path creator
is a disaster, worked around various failures.
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Eventually got path setup working, travelling it
nicely, but not actually mowing - amusing, eventually turned
it off and on again: now it mows!
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Hauled industrial hoover up three stories on a rope
to clean out roof parapet and down-pipe box with tree growing
in it: how does that much 'stuff' get up there - birds no
doubt.
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M&D dropped by in the evening and stayed for
dinner and overnight - lovely to see them.
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Stiga A4 mower arrived, tried to place the
satellite reference base-station; seems they want
£135 for a 15m extension cable. Instead cut
and re-wired various connectors with some cable,
boxes, and errected a ply-wood mount to get out
over the fascia board - to get a perfect view of
the sky.
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Worked through list of tasks, while it
rained all day. Caught up with the long domestic
task backlog.
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Fixed a silly calc latency problem with
split-pane re-rendering on key-stroke for fun.
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Out to a lovely local Brazillian restaurant
in the evening with the babes - staggered home
together happily.
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Up earlyish, lovely day - out to Sandringham
with J. - somewhat nerve-wracking driving on a road that
is below the river-level, and seeing the much lower
lying land below-you.
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Enjoyed the Arboretum & wandered through
the woods, on to Hunstanton for lunch, and walked out
to see in the Wash towards Old Hunstanton. Ice-cream
at the Le Strange Arms.
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Home via hyper-eclectic antique shop; bought a
chest of drawers - only to discover the woodworm when we
got home; removed affected wood & immediately treated
with a couple of litres of killer.
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All Saints, H. played the organ.
Home for lamb hot-pot with Christina.
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Younger three out to Eden Baptist, while
H. slept and J. and I slugged variously.
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Lie-in, dealt with some admin.
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Realized hot water is running out and not being
replaced, debugged heating system is dead: apparently
unbelievably expensive simple relay TS721Si has
failed due to toaster tripping events: the season of
rasins in hot cross buns; Fuse the world, let them
know it's Easter time?. Replaced the £150 timer
with a £10 light-switch temporarily: showering is
once again possible.
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Out for a walk with J. and bought some bits
for a BBQs with David & Christina.
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Sync with Dave, partner call, mail, lunch.
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Interesting Tech.
Talk from Hubert on the new wordpress plugin.
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Backed-up and transplanted SSD innards to old laptop,
now mended by Lenovo - faster but more fan noise; please to
see
zcfan doing a great job of better fan mgmt.
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Designated Survivor in the evening with the babes.
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Tech. planning call - lots going on, bit of testing in
the community call: much improved rendering performance is
encouraging. Lunch in the sun with the babes.
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1:1 with Lily, COOL days content planning - so many
good talk submissions, and so much work done that it's hard to
know how to fit them all in.
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Partner call / interview.
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Home group Easter dinner - lots of roast lamb, and
nice people; caught up with Simon happily.
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Mail chew, catch up with Dave, then a Partner call
with Lily. Physio appointment. Back for mail chew & admin.
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Published the next strip: Marketing to users or contributors?
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Interviewed a QA person We
are hiring, sync with Andras, sales call, catch up with Philippe.
Late partner call.
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Band practice.
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Quickish planning call, partner sales call. Kate,
James & Penelope over for lunch - caught up with them.
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Multi-partner call later in the afternoon, dinner,
mail chew - feeling somewhat unwell oddly.
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Richard published the first pod-cast, Open Matters -
around Document Formats featuring yours truly geeking out on
some technical details underneath documents:
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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
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
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