Category: Personal
-
Weeknote CW48 2023
I’ve missed a couple of weeknotes since the end of November and start of December has been a pretty busy time. On Tuesday we went to see a rerun of The Holiday at the cinema. It’s one of my favourite Christmas films and it put me and Mrs R into a christmassy mood. On Thursday…
-
It was lovely to visit my parents over …
It was lovely to visit my parents over the weekend and say hi to my dad’s naughty cat Bertie who decided to climb into the kitchen bin for a photo op
-
Weeknote CW45 2023
This week was another busy one both at work and at home. My Dad and his wife came to stay with us at the start of the week. My dad is reeaaally into coffee and I got him a voucher to go on a barista training course at Winchester Coffee School for his birthday earlier…
-
Weeknote CW 44 2023
I spent two days up in London this week, attending various in-person meetings and I got to have lunch with my friends and former co-founders of Filament who span out to run EBM. On Wednesday we were “locked down” for Storm Ciaran – our local council declared a Major Incident and encouraged people to stay…
-
Living with Aphantasia
Aphantasia is what they call it when you can’t see stuff in your “mind’s eye”, it’s latin for “no imagination”. It was a term originally coined by Dr Adam Zeman who did a study in 2015 that I responded to. I am an aphant and I spent most of my life believing that this is…
-
Going Mainstream with WordPress
Hello folks – I’ve taken the decision to migrate my blog back to wordpress after a few years of “dogfooding” my own publishing stack with Hugo and a little python script I wrote to integrate with indieweb and webmention stuff. Why have I done this? Well frankly I realised that my blog setup was annoying…
-
Weeknote CW 41 2023
This week has been jam packed with traveling, meetings, events and all sorts! For an introvert like me, it’s been pretty hard going pretending to be extroverted and interacting with lots of folks. The biggest news this week was that my company won another award. A few weeks ago in September we won the CogX…
-
Weeknote Week 39 2023
Another busy week here as “Q3” gives way for “Q4” in the business world. Early this week we had a company retreat. On Monday we invited middle and senior management teams and on Tuesday we invited the whole tech team including fully remote staff. We rented a huge AirBnB with a games room and a…
