She wanted to make this personal, and I don’t have too much of an issue with that, but feel once again I need to use this forum to respond to personal attacks and lies. To the people who have sent me supportive messages thank you. It’s got to the point where I’ve installed an alarm system. She feels she has the moral high ground, personally…
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue…
Fuck it, my ex and her friends want a fight I’ll give ‘em one. She clearly wants the end of this relationship to be played out in a public forum and today was the final straw. I got an interesting email this morning that prompted me to run a few of my analytic macros today, first time I’ve done it since I got back last…
Vroom, Vroom…
If you have ever heard an F1 car live you know the earth shattering noise they make. If you’ve only seen the races on TV then a large part of the experience is missing. One car being driven hard is loud, 24 on the opening lap of a grand prix is something else entirely. You don’t so much hear the cars, as feel the noise….
Montero, sober fans in Qatar and the World Cup
A big day for football news, first the local story. Sounders signed Fredy Montero as the club’s third designated player yesterday. There is no transparency on the contract, but if they have signed him as a designated player then we must assume he is in the long term plans of the team. This is good news for the side, ownership, Fredy and the fans. It…
Some thoughts on agile PM
Before today I knew a little about agile project management. It’s not a new model, especially if you’ve been involved in software development. On the surface it looks like another form of incremental and iterative development, but it’s actually a little more than that. It’s certainly got some interesting ideas that on first glance look like they will transition to the hardware manager role. I’m…
Movember 30th, at last…
I made it the full month! Through the itching, ridicule and looking like this on a couple of business trips in the last month. I really don’t think this form of facial hair suits me. On the bright side, I was not the only one growing it for the month, thanks to Keith and Rob for keeping me company and not making me feel totally…
A little more from Rome
Cameron’s big society, still not sure what it is…
I was listening to a BBC podcast today and they had an excerpt from Thatcher’s 1980 Conference speech, the rather influential “this lady is not for turning” speech. Here we are thirty years later and last month was David Cameron’s first Tory conference as PM and the most significant theme of his election campaign was carried through to the conference. Big Society and what it…
Sex in the City or a little DIY?
Most people have a number of very separate careers through their lives. I have, I started off life as an aircraft mechanic, which led to a fairly logical step of working on racecars before I finally got round to going to college. Today I spend most of my working day sitting in a cube and working on a computer or going to meetings. A significant…
Tottenham 5, Manchester United 1
A friend sent me this video today, he also sent it to a couple of Manchester United supporting friends (buy the shirt, bask in the glory and struggle to find Manchester on a map). United have a front line of Best, Law and Charlton. It’s always fun to watch United (the champions from the previous season) get hammered, even if it is from 1965-66, but…