Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up, girls dressed prettily, drove to the Reed's home
for a fine pre-Easter feast in Pickering. Walk down to the
North York Rejoiced over an accepted offer for a home
for them. Home in the evening, put babes to bed.
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Got up, played lego, walked down by the river; sang
in St Roberts cave. Came back for lunch, Rob & Amelia
arrived late. Learned to play "Sushi Go!" together, admired
the house they just viewed. Lasagne dinner together.
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Mail, admin, sync with Kendy, Andras, Aron, Jona, lunch.
More work, packed & set off to Knaesborough with the babes.
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Mail chew, mended NSS use in minimized jails, fixed unit tests.
Reviewed security documentation at some length.
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Mail chew, admin, interview, more mail, built ESC stats.
Mgmt call, sync with Philippe. Dinner, spent a chunk of time
reading NSS in the evening.
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Mail chew, chat with Paolo, mail chew, admin left & right.
Back-ported a patch eventually, and poked at the crash reporter.
Helped M. and N. with their maths in the evening.
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Up; played bass & violin (not concurrently) at All Saints.
Grier & Barbara over for lunch and fellowship. Quartet practice
with the girls; Odyssey after tea, put people to bed; watched Patriot -
amusing.
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Took a car-load of babes to Ely for Shine and did
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Ely Spy Mission Trail with E. - a nice meal together by the river,
visited the museum & picked up a set of babes to take home.
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Julie over in the evening, out with J. to Wetherspoon for
a nice evening out together - met several people in the pub, relaxing.
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Mail chew, chat with Andras, sync with Kendy.
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Early morning customer call. Mail chew, another customer call,
and another, and a sales & marketing meeting, 5mins for lunch, then
the ESC call. More mail.
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More mail; calls, aggravation. Music group practice
in the evening; relaxing.
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Mail chew, team call, etc. commercial call, in the
afternoon. Lots of E-mail annoyance.
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Up early, practice with H. and E. Mail chew, code review, hit a
deadlock while editing & fixed it.
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Booked flight for SuperSec
2018 in Almeria which should be fun. Wrote status report.
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More mail; grief.
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All Saints in the morning, baptism, Fraser spoke well, back
for lunch; Violin practice with E. out to pick up babes; took H. and
E. to a concert - back for pizza dinner, put babes to bed.
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Up late; into Cambridge with E. for Science Week. Lots of interesting
things in the Guild-hall - glow-worms (nematodes with glowing proteins and
double the life-span), LED torch creation with the IET, vascular models to
pay with, Artemesia seeds to plant, and more.
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Lunch, on to psychology to see some tool-making bird videos, theory
of mind, optical illusions and more.
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Over to see David later, built giant lego tower with E. to the
ceiling, back to ours with David for a chinese meal, bed early.
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Mail chew, analysis, patch review - great to see Noel making
great strides in privatizing the dreaded separate alpha into
vcl/ where hopefully we can remove it, accelerating
everything that uses cairo / libpixman at least.
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Bid 'bye to three babes to Burwell House for 'Alive' with YFC.
Watched the last Season 2 Man in the High Castle; interesting.
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Mail, ESC call, competitive analysis - rather encouraging how far
Collabora Online has come since 2.x. ESC call, more analysis.
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Mail, poked at patches, funded two small girl's phones;
what a chunk of cash to spend on connectivity; saved the difference
by getting a better personal plan.
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Calls with Andras & Eloy, and others.
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Mail chew, patch review. Pleased to see Tor's impact on
Mac
bugs, with Mac disappearing from the high-priority regression list
(for now).
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Seems the security circus got a lot nastier recently; what
chance that a company releases a very slick website, with pre-made
videos, polished collateral, and marketing - in advance of any
technical information, or patches that "AMD is vulnerable" - just
for fun. I wonder who paid for all of those pixels.
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Practice with E. scales decaying over the weekend; hmm.
Mail chew, sync with Miklos. Lunch with J. Sync with kendy,
call with Jeroen. TDF call. Stories in the evening - Asimov for
E. Max Lucado for H.
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Up, cooked breakfast in bed for J. with M. - presents,
cards, a banner, etc. for the sweetheart. Out to All Saints,
played bass; enjoyed Max's sermon. Home for roast lunch.
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Slugged; digested; played guitar much of the afternoon
while babes played lego (a break from minetest), and Smash-Up.
Julie over for tea.
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Poked mail, took H. to practice the Organ & got
a bit of hacking done. Back for lunch. Watched Lost in
Space (with not much to recommend it) in the afternoon.
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Out for a run; mail, customer calls, poked at
projections.
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Poked at EC2 hosting of minetest again in the
evening with N.; SLE12 too stale, and/or games not
compiled for it; decided to try flatpak having played
with snap the other day. Far from ideal for a head-less
server use on a remote machine; the app store gives
.ini files rather than a simple command-line to install.
Installing files demands a server to install from rather
than noticing I have just one, and the app is in it.
The command-line demands very.long.qualified.names rather
than being helpful. I assume this works beautifully from
the GUI, and I'm a victim of a corner-case.
Running a new OS underneath chews enough RAM to
require a more expensive instance too - upgraded that,
it works; hmm.
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Customer call at breakfast; fun. Sync with Miklos. Call
with Eloy. ESC call, posted minutes. Out with Richard Wood in the
evening for a pleasant drink / catch-up.
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Mail; sync with Andras, admin, lunch; chat with Thorsten,
poked at projections.
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Mail chew, more text review; built ESC proto-agenda. With a
number of friends dying of Cancer near and far, I was encouraged to watch
Death is not dying;
serve, with joy - what a great reminder; the serving is easy -
the joy is often hard for me.
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Got some AWS / EC2 instance setup in the evening with N. to
backup family photos & minetest
onto; fun.
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Mail chew; admin, call with Mike K, lunch. Great swathes
of admin; people like to send me 60 pages of legal boiler-plate at
a time it seems.
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Interested to see in the news that
the Royal Mail can spot bogus clairvoyants these days - I
wonder if they use AI for that.
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Pleased to discover that after some upgrades removing
nouveau.modeset=0 from my kernel parameters (while
adding nopti) gives me some accelerated X goodness again; nice.
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To church early, played bass, E.H & self did
prayers for the family service. Back home for lovely family
Italian food extraveganza - with S&C, J&A, B&A.
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Played Vive, with J.&A, Clive gave bass advice;
listened to Odyssey over tea together; put babes to bed with
stories. Reading N. Sustainable Energy
without the Hot Air.
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Snow-ball fight in the morning in the road & built
a snow-man. Christina over for lunch & making cookies with H.
- out to sleep-over with Charlotte; watched Evan Almighty. Stories
with babes; bit of work; Man in the High Castle in
the evening.
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E. home for another snow-day, while H.N.M. go to school
in Soham. Mail chew, sync with Andras & Kendy, updated some
docs. More mail.
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Pleased to see the team produce a great Collabora
Online 3.1 release with lots of fixes & improvements.
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Hannah, Nick & Joni over for dinner, and an art
lesson drawing still-life; terrible tonal shading from yours
truly.
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Early call with Martin & Miklos, mail, snow sweeping,
call, lunch.
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Somewhat irritated to get "Your exclusive invitation -
The new Porsche Cayenne" through the door - presumably sent to
company directors; I guess we need to have some reply options:
"[X] I invested my money into Free Software not silly cars"
or perhaps -
"[X] When your car is a plucky start-up leading the battery
vehicle and self-driving future, then I might look again (cf. Tesla)"
Then again - a junk-mail fuelled heating-system is an attractive
option with snow outside; perhaps I should install another
forty-two letter-boxes in my door to feed it.
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ESC call, chat with Daniel, mail. Dinner, read stories.
Contract review, financial projections.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
