Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Took H. to practice the Organ and tried but failed to buy stamps. Spent some time trying to fix a VIVE controller, failing to pair - much dis-assembly later no closer; wish there was more sensible and detailed console output to allow real diagnostics. Neverending Story in the afternoon - not as good as it seemed 25 years ago.

2017-12-29 Friday

Started working through list of pending tasks. Sealed kitchen worktops - removing one item from the side, while J. dunged out E's clothing mountain.
Out to see the Brighty's for a nice lunch, on to Ickworth for a walk.

2017-12-28 Thursday

Drove to Aldeburgh for lunch with B&A, Sue, Clive and babes there too - played variously. Out for a walk along the beach to the Martello Tower, back for more slugging. Fairground candy grabber given to Anne for Christmas making an horrific racket during serial uses. Home; watched Extant with H.

2017-12-27 Wednesday

Watched the falling snow & chatted with M&D, much of the morning, lunch - bid 'bye to them. Played with babes, watched Les Miserable - a wonderful musical. Put babes to bed.

2017-12-26 Tuesday

Breakfast, R&A left early - lunch, out for a walk on the heath, H. played the organ for M&D, Chris, Cheryl & girls dropped in for a while - replaced H's malfunctioning ATX power-supply driving her LED light strip with Chris. Up late talking with M&D.

2017-12-25 Monday

Woken by babes at 8am top open stockings in our bed - joined by R&A&M, fun. Breakfast, out for family service in the morning.
Back for a fine roast turkey lunch - B&A arrived - lots of fun, present opening - fell asleep and work up surrounded by the oldies: in something of a haze of tiredness.
Played 'family row' with Tom & Becky in the US via the internet. Up late talking.

2017-12-24 Sunday

Played with family in the morning; David over for lunch; out for a walk - All Saints crib service. Back for a jacket potatoe dinner, and games until late feeling increasingly unwell. Packing, wrapping etc.

2017-12-23 Saturday

Up late, tidied the house. Lunch, out for a walk on the nearby dyke in the afternoon; Rob & Amelia arrived when we got back. Up talking to them.

2017-12-22 Friday.

Parents arrived for a late breakfast; spent a chunk of time summarizing the commercial year for CP. for the team. Cut out a chunk of mouldy old silicone sealant & replaced it.

2017-12-21 Thursday.

Up early, mail chew, poked at this and that. Thrilled to see CODE 3.0 released with the start of our rich dialog support; update your docker / packages & get stuck in with hacking it.
ESC call, posted the minutes. New floor fitted in upstairs toilet - bought some stainless screws, and a new seat for good measure.
Admin, dinner, mail chew. Re-plumbed in the toilet & screwed it down (holes at the back only, hmm).

2017-12-20 Wednesday.

Up rather early, into London for meetings, Ben and then Lunch & Tony - interesting people, fun times. Some IRC & E-mail bits.
On the train opposite Rowan Williams on the way back, avoided disturbing him.

2017-12-19 Tuesday.

Up early, mail chew. When I look at some UFO footage I see an out-of-focus insect inside a sensor - what is wrong with me ?
Mail chew, sync. with Andras & Jona. Patch review, fun. Commercial call, filled paperwork, confirmed FOSDEM talk.

2017-12-18 Monday.

Mail chew; sync. with Miklos, consulting call. Lunch. BoD call. Plugged at admin, sync with Kendy, partner call. Dinner, sync with Timar & Jona.

2017-12-17 Sunday.

Up late, trained N. in cleaning the shower trap; worked with H. on toilet plumbing. Watched National Lampoons Xmas - sadly more vulgar than I recall. Out to the All Saints Carol Service in the evening, very well attended - N. did a reading. Back for tea & bed.

2017-12-16 Saturday.

Up lateish, checked mail, house tidying left & right, Sue & Clive and babes, and B&A over for a lovely lunch together; really good to see them and to catch up. Out for a walk with J and S&C.
Bid 'bye to all; slugged a bit, did some work on memory sharing in the lounge; took H. to Charlotte's party. Talked to lots of parents of friends.

2017-12-15 Friday.

Out for a run with J. chewed mail, poked partners, estimations, customers worked on letter. Team call. Sync with Jona in the evening.

2017-12-14 Thursday.

Mail chew, sync with Kendy, amazed to read on slashdot : in 2013 ... that 14.7 billion people visited [PornHub] - obviously the aliens are watching us - but I didn't realize what they're watching.
Looked at switching to clang for building LibreOffice - fed-up of wasting scarce CI horsepower just to fall over one of our increasingly awesome set of clang-based checking plugins. I have a soft spot for gcc: the FSF heritage, etc. despite them taking two years to review my first patch to it - but needs must. Discovered that icecream appears not to work with our clang plugins: bother.
Call with Eloy, and a customer, admin. Lunch. ESC call, more admin. Poked some code with kendy late.

2017-12-13 Wednesday.

Mail chew, call, sync with Jona. Pushed custom allocator pieces, poked at URL launching in online.
Off to Ely Cathedral to play in the Soham Village College orchestra, packed cathedral (but not noticably warmer for it), and some great music.

2017-12-12 Tuesday.

Mail chew. Built ESC stats, poked at ESC stats building to simplify some of the more annoying tweaks.
Mended vive controller in the evening - the small rubber pad on the micro-switch moved - re-glued it into the right place & re-assembled. Lydia & Janice over.

2017-12-11 Monday.

Mail chew, consulting call, mailed customers, worked through admin queue, customer call, dinner, sync. with Kendy, managed to finish my string dumper and analyze the ~64k UCS2 strings we allocate on startup, with ~1 million chars - so at least 3Mb of heap. Some gems in there, 6k copies of "en-US", 7k strings starting "com.sun.star.". Hopefully can use the string pointers to make sense of more apparently random chunks of memory that are un-shared in error.

2017-12-10 Sunday.

Fed and entertained small girls of various kinds, tried to get them to eat crumpets as well as playing in the snow (some bare-foot). Dispatched them to parents, packed instruments, cooked roast-potatoes, and more - and off to All Saints.
Service; Max spoke on courage, faith, redemption and example of the four women in Luke's genealogy of Jesus. Church family Christmas dinner afterwards - lovely, All Saints 'got talent' featuring H' on the Organ, a quartet, and lots of other fun bits.
Home; some slugging, watched LOTR #2.2 with the babes. Wrestled tired people to bed.

2017-12-09 Saturday.

House tidying action, took H. to practice the organ, brief shop afterwards. Home for lunch, got her RPI / LED light-ness sorted out with Elize.
Friends & families arrived for parties, good to see Jan & Roman, Silver & Maria and Tania as well as the normal host of smaller girls. Various babies got to bed extraordinarily late.

2017-12-08 Friday.

Took E. to school, mail, admin, catch-up, mail backlog processing. Booked FOSDEM Eurostar. Finally got annoyed enough with X crashing to file a bug.
Dinner, larger three went ice skating; played with E. Bit of hacking, and some patch review - nice.

2017-12-07 Thursday.

Mail chew, re-built code, train into London for a customer meeting. Good to see Bob again, out for a fine Indian meal, enjoyed the company late into the evening, Thai dinner, trains home.
John & Louise over in the evening, stayed up rather late catching up with John, fun.

2017-12-06 Wednesday.

Sync with Dennis, collected data, admin, lunch. Customer call, more slideware work. Plugged away at calc bits & report writing until the small hours.

2017-12-05 Tuesday.

Mail; admin. Lunch with J. Commercial call. Spent much of the day doing the things that are supposed to be quick & get done before you work on larger tasks - but somehow fill the time.
Out to the Hopbine in Cambridge in the evening with J. for a lovely Collabora Christmas party, good to catch up with the local part of the team.

2017-12-04 Monday.

Mail chew, consultancy call, synched with Dennis; admin: customer, partner contacts, variously. TDF board call.

2017-12-03 Sunday.

Up, NCC - played the violin - goodbye service as we leave the church, sad in many ways - 17 years of service there; moving on to All Saints for now.
Home for lunch with Sandra & Lydia, played games & music with the family, out to practice the Organ with H. Read God's Smuggler to E. + babes in the evening. Watched Extant with J. before bed.

2017-12-02 Saturday.

Mail chew, Elize over to make christmas present with H. Played games variously, lunch. Out for a walk up the heath in the afternoon with the family, lovely. Home, movie, bed.

2017-12-01 Friday.

Plugged away at memory sharing amidst admin bits. Found lots of likely looking pages and improve the loolmap tool significantly. Turns out allocating 1 byte with the internal LibO allocator gives you a minimum of 32bytes as we configure it. Hacked up a custom arena for Online pre-initialization.

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