It's a bank holiday and the first day of our week long holiday; hence I was very pleased when fixing my SIP server only took ten minutes this morning!
It's now just gone 10pm, everyone else is in their (hotel) bed so I'm just settling down to get some work done.
First up is clearing my normal …
I've got so many photos I like from our recent holiday I'm sharing two of them today. Both from the same location as last weeks photo, namely the steam train based in Sheringham.
No flowers this week though, instead the inside of "old" train carriages (I remember when carriages like this were in normal use and I wasn't that …
A while ago I tweeted something about weather and an excellent related weather forecast comic.
Well it seems someone at the BBC noticed (probably XKCD, not me) and More or Less have answered.
Saturday today - and as I generally manage, I didn't work.
Instead I took the children (all three) out to …
Started the day with a networking breakfast - an event I've been attending for a couple of years. Today I was a "table leader" and requested feedback on my PaTMa leaflet, which people were kind enough to provide plenty of - from layout changes to rewriting bits for me and even a great suggestion on how to …
Could interest rates be staying low for a bit longer?
Having been involved in several post-hack investigations on small sites, this is an interesting idea for a seminar on dealing with a data breach, shame I can't make that day.
Had an annoying issue trying to run the PaTMa …
This morning didn't go entirely to plan! I was supposed to be heading to a networking event but one of my children wasn't feeling well and ended up staying at home; hence so did I.
He's since perked up and seems OK so hopefully will be back to school tomorrow.
For me, I spent the morning catching …
Something a bit more recent than normal - from our recent holiday to Norfolk, specifically one of the stations (I think Holt) on the steam train line that we caught from Sheringham.
I was trying to photograph the flower but very pleased to have got a bonus as well.
Taken in June 2018.
Today was May's free co-working day for Redhill Micropreneurs, kindly hosted by Regus in their Kingsgate building.
It was a really good day, great turn out and some excellent conversations; I even got some work done too.
I ran another lunch time show and tell session in which we heard from:
Terrible level of concentration from me this morning. Accidentally swapping between tasks with alarming frequency.
I did manage to make some final fixes to my PaTMa leaflet and arrange for a very small initial print run. Also got a Redhill Micropreneurs email written and sent to remind people about tomorrow's co-working day; plus exchanged emails with …
A rare weekend entry, just noting some interesting reading about taking 2 months rent instead of a deposit.
Plus a housebuilder in trouble. I follow the housing market around Redhill fairly closely and found it fascinating to watch it really dip towards the end of 2017, with prices definitely going down; then bounce back plus …
An interesting/useful talk - design for developers.
Today was mostly taken up attending a monthly product mastermind/accountability group I'm a member of in Brighton.
The rest of the day involved a little bit of All Secure Domains development (improving dealing with expiring domains), a normal "loss" of time dealing with emails and a couple of hours …
Flowers. Keeping it simple and bright today.
Taken in July 2017.
A nice little video trying to myth-bust on immigration.
I could quite easily "accidentally" spend days looking at web and ads analytics!
An interesting article for anyone looking into crowd funding across Europe.
Something weird going on with an IPsec VPN I use for a consultancy customer today - it keeps getting stuck after …
Once upon a time I would upgrade to the latest Linux desktop on release day (or perhaps even earlier). Not any more. I started today by upgrading my primary machine to the latest Ubuntu - released three weeks ago! The upgrade ate a chunk of time as various applications I was trying to continue using (ie Thunderbird …
After a day dedicated to head-down development yesterday I had to spend some time catching up with communications this morning.
That included several consultancy client responses but added to it were a couple of new things that arrived this morning and a viewing booked at the property I'm currently trying to let.
I scheduled today as a …
Part of the garden at Sutton House in London. The tyres and sand are part of a play area just outside the building. I like the patchwork of the building.
For a fairly small venue it was interesting enough to keep the children (and adults) entertained for a few hours (at least with the extra Easter bits they had on …
A sunny, sparkling waterfall with surrounding greenery today.
Taken in July 2017.
Woohoo!
Planned work for today was All Secure Domains development.
And it went well. So well in fact that the shiny new version of the domain and web hosting website is live!
Functionally this version is almost identical to the old one! Except for being faster, less demanding on the server and more mobile friendly. Also using …
Day two of LTVConf.
Unrelated to the conference itself but my day could have started better - my train was delayed by 35 minutes, and I had to go to a different train station to catch it! I'd left some spare in my schedule though so still made it in time for pastries (ie a second breakfast!). …
There are lots of flowers around at the moment so this weeks photo is a whole field of flowers from last year.
Taken in June 2017.