Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up hyper-early, got to work instead of trying to sleep:
much more productive, another half a day's work.
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Found some lost A/C folk, and helped them maintain our
system.
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Sync with Dave, Sarper, Thorsten, Mitch helped me unwind
some Apple account horrors.
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Published the next strip on a topic that plagues engineers:
having a wonderful product or service is futile without a proper
marketing & sales process.
2025-07-15 Tuesday
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Up early, cleared some mail, planning call, sync with
Laser, Andras, snatched some lunch, monthly mgmt call.
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Customer sales call, sync with Miklos, poked at some
code, multi-partner call. Fixed a silly flicker issue in the
COOL UI.
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Supervised some EPQ-ness with Lily, lots of sanding
and varnish.
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Curious to read about randomness
as an idea to "prevent meritocracies from devolving into
court societies dominated by schemers and sycophants." - interesting.
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A day of 1:1's, marketing content review, topped off
by minuting a PCC meeting.
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Up earlyish, All Saints - played violin. H.N.M. off to
assist leading at Lymington Rushmore camp.
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Jocelyn & David over for pizza lunch & a chat.
Ferried E. to & from Cambridge for a punting trip with Church.
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Hot, up lateish, nailed the wall variously for H's
bedroom lights; sogged & talked hardware hacking.
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David over for BBQ in the afternoon, out for a walk
on the heath together, relaxed with babes.
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Up, mail chew; bit of hacking, train, plane, car back home
with some large amount of standing around included.
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Got a bit of hacking done on the plane around translating
ODF files. Lovely to be home and see everyone back!
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WeAreDevelopers for much of the day, a number of interesting
talks interspersed by wandering the halls questing for document
interested types.
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Tech planning call; back to the hotel, and out for dinner
with Sarper.
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Mail chew, dug through work, Thorsten arrived, caught
up, checked-in at Berlin Messe Sud, out to visit Nextcloud,
chat with Jos & Frank, Niels around and out for dinner.
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Published the next strip: Blake Enterprises to the rescue:
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Planning call, sync with Laser, COOL Days retrospective:
it rocked, lunch, met up with Robert.
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Up earlyish, mail, 1:1's with Miklos, Thorsten,
Naomi, Pedro, Eloy. Meeting with Philippe, and the
finance team, catch up with Lily.
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Up early, off to All Saints with N.
lead family service worship, chatted, home for
pizza.
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Rested variously through the afternoon.
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Up early, watered the garden, out to Fountains
Abbey with the parents, lovely walk through the ruins,
and down by the river. Ice-cream & walked back,
a lovely day for it.
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Had a fine lunch together, and drove home.
Helped to unpack H's luggage, went shopping with J.
and N. practiced music for tomorrow.
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Breakfast together, out by bus to Harrogate to
visit their Turkish Baths with J. - a digital detox -
alternated cold & hot rooms and pools etc. Fun.
Stopped in at EE shop on the way to try to unwind their
horrible web experience. Lunch at a cafe.
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Home by bus, helped Father to drim the hedge,
and admired various tools in the garage together.
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Had tea, and talked together until late.
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Up late, skipped breakfast, met up for lunch with
Mark, really lovely to catch up with him.
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Back for a call with T. prepping around JTAG;
good to discover Scan
Chain testing; amazing to be able to serialize the whole
state of a chip before and after a 'clock' to check for
consistency. Left H. having an interview.
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Walked into town with J, to discover an appointment
arriving, headed home quickly, call with Peter & Philippe.
Helped to pack H's belongings into the car, bid 'bye and
drove to M&D's in Knaesborough.
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Out for a (non-alcoholic) pint in town, back for
tea and saw M&D. back from dancing, enjoyed chatting with
them until late.
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Up early, cooked breakfast, sync with Dave,
chewed mail & tied up loose ends while J. shopped
& babes slept.
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Tried to manage multiple phones under EE's website -
apparently this is the feature that is just beyond the
edge of their capability to design & maintain; un-usable,
website riddled with errors, missing content - billing pages
that fail to load. Usually you would expect the piece where
you can pay money to a telco to actually work even if nothing
else is available; weird.
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Published the next strip around how to stimulate donations
for your non-profit:
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Dressed in glad rags, out to the Engineering Department
with H. for drinks & celebration, met her supervisor.
Back to H's, watched Capital then set off to
the Cathedral green to queue for photos, and seats in the
Cathedral.
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Watched H. get her Degree conferred in a fine service.
Caught the end of a partner call - met with H's friends,
saw her old room.
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Out to a Turkish restaurant to celebrate together,
bed early.
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Planning call, partner marketing call, intermitten
progress reviews on-line with E.'s teachers.
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Worked in the car cleaning up loose ends, while J.
drove, then drove. Arrived, met up with H. & N. enjoyed
some Greggs.
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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)
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