* broke. I'm sick. Again. It's not so much that there's nothing wrong with me as that there's nothing right with me. I woke up on Monday morning with one eye gummed shut and blood on my forehead. Nothing major, caused by a flu-like bug and increasingly aggressive eczema respectively, but it caused one of those moments where you look at yourself and ( Read more... )

• proceeded along the path of Process Ninja. My 6 Sigma training has been a curious affair. I was basically forced to do the yellow belt training (although I was glad to go). I was already several steps above my station at that point, but then I got put forward for the black belt training. I missed out on a place on the BB course, because I have ( Read more... )

* celebrated Blue Monday. Some dickhead in London dreamt up Blue Monday 5 years ago as a way of flogging holidays and now it's become ingrained in our culture. And you know what? I'm quite envious of that dickhead. I bet he or she had no idea that Blue Monday would click so completely with people (because even if it's not true, it certainly feels ( Read more... )

* said goodnight to Joey at the end of her third year in the world. It's a period of time that's seems so short and yet so unimaginably long. And I'm so keen to see her grow up and so desperate for her to stay a baby. It's a mass of contradictions. She made me laugh when I picked her up on Friday and she said, "Oh daddy, I had a loooong day". Then ( Read more... )

* did numbers. I got asked to do something fun at work recently. I got asked to make an argument in favour of something. It's something deeply unpopular, so I've had to spend the last couple of months gathering number and today I got to crunch them. It was lovely. I learned some interesting number-crunching techniques on the 6 sigma thing I did ( Read more... )

* did an interview with Paul Sinha (who I've previously reviewed here). My second phone interview ever. The first one was fine: I read through my list of questions, he gave pithy answers, job done in five minutes. I ran away at work to sit in a corner expecting much the same experience, and half an hour later I found myself having to make an excuse ( Read more... )

*slept in. Had a slightly sleepless night last night and ended up sleeping until 8.30am. Continued to get myself ready for work very, very slowly despite this. No rush to get in at the moment.
* met a sales person and he was selling me work. Made quite a strong case actually and I agreed to do the work for him. My team will be helping out over the ( Read more... )

*skated to work. After last year's Snowpocalypse, which saw me fall over more often than is acceptable for a grown man, I was quite pleased to have made it through the winter with only one slight slip. But today the whole of winter seemed determined to put me on my ass properly. The sleety snow of the last few days had frozen and reset, turning our ( Read more... )

So, 9/11 happened a few years ago ( Read more... )

I won’t tell the long and tedious story of why Fringe 2010 was my first Fringe. My Fringe fail-ingness has been one of the most consistent things in my life for the last 15 years and I had started to think that this would never change. Right up until the moment this August when I was standing in the Fringe press office and someone gave me a press ( Read more... )