Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in personal on Feb 22nd, 2010
Here’s part 4 of my running log – my 10 week journey to train for a half marathon – something I haven’t attempted for over a decade. The log is mostly for my own reference but if you’re interested you can read Part 1 , 2 and 3 as well.
Well the running is going pretty well [...]
Posted in personal on Feb 1st, 2010
Here’s part 3 of my running log – my 10 week journey to train for a half marathon – something I haven’t attempted for over a decade. The log is mostly for my own reference but if you’re interested you can read Part 1 and Part 2 as well.
Yesterday I completed my fourth full week of [...]
Posted in personal on Jan 17th, 2010
Just finished week 2 of my 10 week half-marathon training. Despite being away from home most of the week – I managed to exceed my mileage goal again – but didn’t make much progress on my pace. I have goal of finishing under 1hr 50m so need to be aiming for 8 minute miles; currently [...]
On the eve of the last day of the penultimate year of the first decade of the third millennium and continuing a tradition I started in 2005, here’s a quick summary of 2009 – ignoring everything between the peaks and troughs.
Best Moment
Aside from every 3 months when Red Hat announces another knockout quarter
My [...]
Posted in personal on Dec 30th, 2008
Continuing a tradition I started on my Sun blog (2005, 2006, I have no idea what happened to 2007) here’s my best and worst list for 2008.
Best Moment
If you have young kids you know that every moment is golden; that explains why I have over 20 GBs of digital photos. That aside – seeing the [...]
When Autumn arrives in North Carolina it’s hard to miss. We still have a month or so before it’s here in all it’s glory but it’s definitely on it’s way and this weekend brings the first really cold night. So I’ve updated this blogs header image from Spring to Autumn – not much snapping [...]
Posted in personal on May 15th, 2008
After our game tonight we we’re discussing some of the more spactacular events in Football’s (Soccer’s) history. I was surprised that not everyone had heard of the infamous Battle of Santiago (not to be confused with the naval battle of the same name).There really was nothing good about the game between Italy and 1962 World [...]
Posted in personal on Apr 12th, 2008
If you ever have a moment when you’re feeling a bit low; feel like life is beating you down; or that things aren’t going the way you’d planned – read Don Bowen’s blog. It will help you put things into perspective.
I only spent a little time working working with Don at Sun but I enjoyed [...]
Posted in personal on Mar 28th, 2008
Later this year I would have been celebrating 9 years (9 YEARS !!) at Sun. I would, that is, if I hadn’t gone and got myself a new job elsewhere – which is precisely what I have done. So today I’m celebrating 8 years, 5 months and 8 days at Sun; and about 6 months [...]
Posted in personal on Mar 22nd, 2008
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Yesterday, good Friday, we spent the day exploring some of the coast around Wilmington. Specifically we went to Carolina Beach, Kure, Fort Fisher (including a quick stop at the aquarium), then up to Wrightsville Beach for dinner at the Oceanic (great fish and chips).
In a couple of weeks time we’ll be [...]