So much time taken trying to catch up on so much assorted stuff that I didn't deal with last week! Covering PaTMa emails, minor consultancy bug fixes, ASD support and some server adjustments. (~2.5 hours)
I wrote and sent out the latest Redhill Micropreneurs email (1 hour), covering the next micropreneurs social and an interesting ad-hoc event that's …
While not managing to get nearly as much winding-down-from-holiday rest as I would have liked, we played a new family board game; this time Dragonology. It took us a while to get up to speed with the rules but once we were going it seemed to work well and we really enjoyed it. We did find that players …
Last day of our holiday in Norfolk. Everyone a bit sad to be packing up and taking everything out of the hotel room.
Trying to make the most of the (last) cooked breakfast probably wasn't a good idea (again)!
First stop for us this morning was Sheringham steam railway which has a great little play carriage, with a play …
Supposedly not too much work to do today/tonight. Seems to have taken nearly two hours still though. Mostly catching up on emails and fixing a couple of urgent consultancy customer issues.
Decided not to publish my next journal tonight; prioritising a few extra minutes of sleep instead.
Morning visiting family, our big two having had a …
Squeezing in another (quick) bit of work after everyone else is in bed again.
Clearing the normal emails plus replying to a couple that can't really wait (also managed to get a couple of replies sent off while at the zoo today).
Amazona Zoo in Cromer today - meeting family there.
Quite a small zoo, but with indoor soft …
Another fairly late start to work today, at just after 10pm.
Just time to catch up on email and finish pulling together a quote for some web scraping consultancy.
Also put my next journal post live, currently releasing about 2 weeks behind which is working well while I'm away. I'd expect to catch up more at some point …
It's a bank holiday and the first day of our week long holiday; hence I was very pleased when fixing my SIP server only took ten minutes this morning!
It's now just gone 10pm, everyone else is in their (hotel) bed so I'm just settling down to get some work done.
First up is clearing my normal bucket full …
A while ago I tweeted something about weather and an excellent related weather forecast comic.
Well it seems someone at the BBC noticed (probably XKCD, not me) and More or Less have answered.
Saturday today - and as I generally manage, I didn't work.
Instead I took the children (all three) out to Wakehurst Place while Liz stayed …
Started the day with a networking breakfast - an event I've been attending for a couple of years. Today I was a "table leader" and requested feedback on my PaTMa leaflet, which people were kind enough to provide plenty of - from layout changes to rewriting bits for me and even a great suggestion on how to fit some screenshots in …
Could interest rates be staying low for a bit longer?
Having been involved in several post-hack investigations on small sites, this is an interesting idea for a seminar on dealing with a data breach, shame I can't make that day.
Had an annoying issue trying to run the PaTMa test suite on …
This morning didn't go entirely to plan! I was supposed to be heading to a networking event but one of my children wasn't feeling well and ended up staying at home; hence so did I.
He's since perked up and seems OK so hopefully will be back to school tomorrow.
For me, I spent the morning catching up on …
Today was May's free co-working day for Redhill Micropreneurs, kindly hosted by Regus in their Kingsgate building.
It was a really good day, great turn out and some excellent conversations; I even got some work done too.
I ran another lunch time show and tell session in which we heard from:
Terrible level of concentration from me this morning. Accidentally swapping between tasks with alarming frequency.
I did manage to make some final fixes to my PaTMa leaflet and arrange for a very small initial print run. Also got a Redhill Micropreneurs email written and sent to remind people about tomorrow's co-working day; plus exchanged emails with a few people …
A rare weekend entry, just noting some interesting reading about taking 2 months rent instead of a deposit.
Plus a housebuilder in trouble. I follow the housing market around Redhill fairly closely and found it fascinating to watch it really dip towards the end of 2017, with prices definitely going down; then bounce back plus some as the weather …
An interesting/useful talk - design for developers.
Today was mostly taken up attending a monthly product mastermind/accountability group I'm a member of in Brighton.
The rest of the day involved a little bit of All Secure Domains development (improving dealing with expiring domains), a normal "loss" of time dealing with emails and a couple of hours working on …
A nice little video trying to myth-bust on immigration.
I could quite easily "accidentally" spend days looking at web and ads analytics!
An interesting article for anyone looking into crowd funding across Europe.
Something weird going on with an IPsec VPN I use for a consultancy customer today - it keeps getting stuck after printing something like:
installing DNS …
Once upon a time I would upgrade to the latest Linux desktop on release day (or perhaps even earlier). Not any more. I started today by upgrading my primary machine to the latest Ubuntu - released three weeks ago! The upgrade ate a chunk of time as various applications I was trying to continue using (ie Thunderbird and Firefox) gave …
After a day dedicated to head-down development yesterday I had to spend some time catching up with communications this morning.
That included several consultancy client responses but added to it were a couple of new things that arrived this morning and a viewing booked at the property I'm currently trying to let.
I scheduled today as a PaTMa marketing …
Woohoo!
Planned work for today was All Secure Domains development.
And it went well. So well in fact that the shiny new version of the domain and web hosting website is live!
Functionally this version is almost identical to the old one! Except for being faster, less demanding on the server and more mobile friendly. Also using Stripe instead …
Day two of LTVConf.
Unrelated to the conference itself but my day could have started better - my train was delayed by 35 minutes, and I had to go to a different train station to catch it! I'd left some spare in my schedule though so still made it in time for pastries (ie a second breakfast!).
No HMRC webinar …