Don’t take the lack of activity on this blog as an indication that life has been quiet, far from it. Work continues to be an exercise of multiple plate juggling. Although most nights I’ve been either clocking up kills on CoD multi-player or vegging watching DVDs other stuff has happened. In brief: * I bought [...]
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Sound of Drums
Yesterday I spent most of the day at the companies annual conference. It’s quite a good day as we bring the whole company together in Cambridge so we catch up with the guys working overseas. The first half of the day is the usual discussion about the state of the company and discussing our objectives [...]
Busy busy bee
One reason my posting rate has dropped off so massively is I’ve been really busy at work. So busy that my capacity for intellectual thought in the evening is reduced to slobbing on the sofa watching DVDs or occasionally firing up CoD in split-screen and killing people with my wife. While I delivered my main [...]
But will it make the boat go faster?
Yesterday I attended an all day away event with work. It was a combination of motivational speaking, team working exercises as well as management Q&A’s and board level views. There was talk about vision and values. We had pretty much the entire company in the same place including the teams from South Africa and Malaysia. [...]
Return to form
I have returned to my clean shaved form. As the mornings get lighter and winter starts to recede I prefer my whole face to take advantage of the additional sunlight. I fairly certain I shall return to bearded form next winter. Today has been clear-out day at work. Much of the activity has been stymied [...]
That was quick
I’ve spent about 4 hours traveling today and about 3 hours in the clients offices. Everything went fairly smoothly and despite occasional language impeadence I’ve only gained an extra 3-4 feature requests, none of which should be too tricky to implement. I’ll probably pop into our local partners office tomorrow morning for a write-up before [...]
New Job, Old Job
I started my new job today. In many ways* it’s like my old job except with paid holidays and stuff. I’ll miss the 2 spare days a week I had to indulge other interests but projects but I suspect I’ll just have to do that at the weekends like everyone else. Half-Llama will still be [...]
Sea of sharks
I spent the day with a potential client today looking over an interesting safety product. If I get any paying work out of it my client list would total 3 which isn’t too bad considering how long I have been trading as Half Llama Technology. The catch of course is getting paid for the work. [...]
Bunker mentality
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