Because typing long posts on a smartphone sucks (hence the rise of Twitter), you can read about my birthday trip on spidertangle's blog ( Read more... )

Watch this space!
Sharon is taking me to Thailand for my birthday.
I am very looking forward to this, most Europeans that I know seem to have been already and say it's wonderful and tremendously relaxing.

I need the relaxing. I will revel in it.
And I will blog here.

Holy Crap,
I just looked back at my LJ, and realized that most of the last 10 posts were about my window repairs.  Obsessive I guess.

Well, it's winter time and I finally got my geekery in. Sadly I missed 27c3 over new years, so instead I went to a dutch hacking weekend called eth0 .  120 hackers together from Friday to Sunday, in the middle of ( Read more... )

Found this on sarendipatree 's LJ. 20 interesting and insightful minutes. Something for me to ponder going into 2011

One week later, I dug out the last splinter. Now I can type again.  Where did I leave off the story of the windows? Oh yeah. Painting the sills and fixed windows ( Read more... )

Today, a well needed good day:

Delivered my Google Apps test report and closed the project. This was 10 month labor of love, my team and I rolled out Google Apps to a small subsection (700) of our users, helped them adopt it, monitored the impacts and removed as much MS Office as we could. Report was accepted, handed over support and next steps to ( Read more... )

Both Dick and Carl showed up for bits of help yesterday, and more importantly for moral support / conversation. The work is going great ( Read more... )

I started off the day in a pretty low mood. Realizing the long chain of things i have to get done (many requiring drying time between steps) if I'm going to get the job finished in reasonable time. I was bicycling between various hardware stores and glass stores, several closed or not carrying what i needed. The enormity of this task hit me, it's ( Read more... )

Good progress continues! I took a vacation day yesterday to focus on construction while weather is good ( Read more... )

While I was at work, Mister Good Carpenter took out the bottom windowsills, made new ones at his workshop, and reinstalled and primed them. Have I mentioned how awesome it is knowing a reliable workman ( Read more... )