Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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Everyone off to Fountains
Abbey to admire the ancient ruins of the monastary there. Some spectacular
construction and architecture by the Cistercians - apparently
they started their first monestary in a swamp - on purpose to make it harder
to live there: which as a side-effect made them experts in water management.
Lots of wandering in the sun with the babes, admiring the mill's water works,
and so on.
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Read the amusing literature, on eg. lead
water pipes, something approximately like this:
"The Monks used lead pipes for their water, but
nationally we replaced our lead water piping forty years ago. There are three
problems with lead piping - first, hair loss (not such a big issue for Monks),
second - loss of short term memory, and third - I can't remember."
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Home in the evening, ice creams from England's (nominally) oldest
sweet shop. Watched Howel's Moving Castle with the
babes, fed them dinner, and left the parents to baby-sit them.
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Out for dinner with my wife - bliss. Swift pint beforehand, then
really an extraordiarily good restaurant The Willow
at Pateley Bridge - amazed to find such unusually good food. Back, bed
late.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
