2026-07-29 Wednesday
Mail chew, code reading, planning. Published the next strip on Another Election - setting up the next board:
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2026-07-28 Tuesday
Planning call, admin, lunch. Marketing call, more admin - digging into CI performance analysis. Bought new Mac hardware & poked at some product mgmt bits. Started sorting out the garage with H. and Barney to make space, de-duplicate and more, discovered a pair of beautiful rebating hand planes.
2026-07-27 Monday
Caught up with Laser in-person. Hack-week started - always interesting to see what will come out of that. Sync with Thorsten, Naomi, Pedro & Eloy. H.&Anne cooked in the evening. Played Catan
2026-07-26 Sunday
All Saints with J&A, played Violin - talked to new people , home to make pizza with J&A. Lunch. Applied relaxation in the afternoon; watched Grayhound - based on The Good Shepherd
2026-07-25 Saturday
Prepped for family, made bread, Anne, Sue & Clive over for a wider birthday celebration, David for lunch too. David & E. off to help with a kids camp. Talked, went to walk with Truffle in the heat. Home, tea, chatted, painted floor again before bed.
2026-07-24 Friday
Extremely pleasantly surprised with openSUSE 16.0 - now my kernel schedules sensibly so a video conference can co-exist with a massive compile set in the background without glitching and becoming unusable - horay - like having new hardware. Sync with Aron, TTT, mail, admin, catch-up. Bit of hacking, ad-hoc calls, out for a run with J. sync with Dave. Chinese food with E. in the evening. Painted…
2026-07-23 Thursday
Tech. planning call, sync with Caolan, lunch with J. Pleased to be mentioned in the Irish Parliament - go Ireland! Really pleased to see Collabora Online 26.04 released for customer use: the foundation of another year of development and improvement. Thanks to our partners for supporting our press release , and for our customers and partners for funding much of the awesome team that create a slew…
2026-07-22 Wednesday
Up early, sync with Stephan, Pranam, Laser, all-hands call, snatched lunch, Collabora quarterly mgmt meeting. Published the next strip: An interview with Maurice: digging into organizations Pleased to see FLOSS Weekly Episode 879: Collabora published - great to chat with Jonathan. More quarterly management meeting until late. Poked at a potential child setup thread delay in COOL at the same time.…
2026-07-21 Tuesday
Up earlyish, celebrated J's birthday with presents, to work while she went to Peter Beale's Rose shop with Sue next door. Planning call, monthly mgmt meeting, brief meeting with potential partner. Fun FLOSS Weekly podcast with Jonathan. Out for dinner with J,H,E+Barney to the Three Blackbirds, back for strawberry topped birthday cake; played games together.
2026-07-20 Monday
Took a day off to spend some time with J. relaxed in the morning variously, out food shopping with J. Lunch with L&T in the garden, out to RAF Mildenhall to admire a number of the 67'ths MC130-Js, CV22-B (Osprey)s, KC-135Rs etc. up-close. Spectacular. Home, another coat of paint on a chunk of the garage floor.
2026-07-19 Sunday
All Saints, violin, prayers, out to a lovely Church Music BBQ, caught up in the sun. Saw Robin & Christine, home in the evening, painted another section of garage floor - poly-u on sealed concrete.
2026-07-18 Saturday
Lost a chunk of a day by travelling east. Arrived midday, trains home. Caught up with lovely wife & some babes. Out for a walk with J, watched Silo with H, relaxed & slept.
2026-07-17 Friday
Up earlyish, plugged away at press release bits. Breakfast with the attendees, bid 'bye to many - shared bus to SFO, plugged away at press pieces until late. Enjoyed starlink on the plane again; great for productivity. Slept.
2026-07-16 Thursday
Up earlyish, plugged away at admin, E-mail, slides. Breakfast with a growing set of interesting people. Fascinating conference, learned a huge amount about DHTs, and de-centralized systems - met some really interesting people. Good set of talks, conversations, fine dining in the evening, toasting of marshmallows - great fun.
2026-07-15 Wednesday
Up much too early got a bit of work done, worked on train(s) to Heathrow. Virgin Atlantic - promises StarLink - interesting. Published the next strip from over Greenland: public husting and private whisperings; the political arts applied. "You might not care about politics, but politics cares about you." Amazed to have a fast & efficient immigration experience encouraging. To Guerneville,…
2026-07-14 Tuesday
Marketing call, planning call, catch-up with the A-team: Anna & Andras. Internal round-table / training. Blissful experience of actually getting meeting notifications with new thunderbird plugin - wow. Lunch, partner payment setup call. Ben & Myriam visited - lovely to see the whole family. Shareholder meeting, sync with Dave.