Archive for June, 2007

A new new person

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

On Monday my wife had her first scan (13 weeks). This is our second child but the experience of seeing the tiny, 'new one' was just as magical. Even better, this little person had got rhythm - the little legs were moving ten to the dozen. :-). All being well ...

M$ and Patents

Monday, June 18th, 2007

In my job I have just completed a substantial migration of an organisation to the OpenOffice suite. This was undertaken to make the business ready for some aspects of its business (electronic tendering for work) as well as producing documents in the OpenDocument format. Microsoft have recently announced that they ...

Recovered use of interweb

Friday, June 8th, 2007

I'm sat outside, on the lawn, enjoying a beautiful Friday evening and obviously back on the web. I got back from a good meeting on Monday to continue the saga of internet connectivity loss. The service light eventually came back on our ADSL router and the servers started pulling ...

Still offline :-(

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Now seven days without broadband. This has led to a few situations that I would not wish on anyone. I have stayed positive and tried to get as much non-internet related work done. One rewarding experience was the setting up of an internet sales department, in a custom built facility, last ...