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. [...]
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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
True to