Category: Weeknotes

This week I have learned: it's really stressful sending something off to print. I had to do a bit of last-minute tweaking on the PlayCards box, and Illustrator is far from intuitive. Thankfully the people at Ludocards were great and sent me photos and video of pre-print copies so that I could get the packaging … Continue reading Weeknote 621: let’s get physical

We do need to take a break every so often. This week we took youngest son for a few days in Barcelona. It's a wonderful city to mooch around. We saw the Nou Camp, a stadium that makes my beloved Vicarage Road look like a training ground. We went inside the Sagrada Familia. The last … Continue reading Weeknote 620: Barca

This week I have learned: sometimes serendipity comes calling. There is a chance I could get to some some work with someone I want to work with, in a place that I want to visit, in a way that helps a whole bunch of my colleagues. It's a reasonably good chance. Finger's crossed. The #100Coffees … Continue reading Weeknote 619 – still closing

This week I have learned: there's a certain adrenaline that kicks in when you go from "this might be happening" to "this is happening". It's been reassuring to see that the averages for lead to proposal to actually doing the work in EE are about what they were when I was flying solo. But it's … Continue reading Weeknote 618: Closing

This week I have learned: the enjoyment of being in the company of others. An annual gathering of friends for a post-Christmas Christmas dinner, people who have been knocking about together for three decades, feeling as young as we did back then even if we have now moved from "falling over" to "having a fall". … Continue reading Weeknote 616 – gathering

This week I have learned: that every so often I will get a hold of some piece of technology and it will totally live up to my expectations. The Emeo Saxophone is one of those pieces of technology. Hardware and software combined, and a perfect example of how devices like the Arduino can allow small … Continue reading Weeknote 615 – in person

This week I have learned: about sinkholes. Well, a little bit about sinkholes. A hole opened up at the road at the other end of our street. It's a main road, and it's meant that there's been significant disruption. Buses re-routed and whatnot. The way the local authority, transport services and police have all co-ordinated … Continue reading Weeknote 614: sinkhole

Looking back on it, I was exhausted at this time last year. Partly that was because of all the stuff that I wrote about back then. But in hindsight it was also in large part because I had reached the end of the line in what I could meaningfully achieve in my last job. The … Continue reading Yearnote 2022

This week I have learned: the joy of editing audio with Descript. The usual WB-40 editing process is pretty perfunctory - a minimum viable edit so that I can get the show out on the internet on the same day we record for fear that otherwise it will sit in my to-do list forever. However … Continue reading Weeknote 614: in review

This week I have learned: that the use of ellipses marks me out as GenX and may well be perceived as passive-aggressive. Thanks to Tom Whitwell for that nugget in here which has seriously made me rethink my approach to punctuation... that listening to the modern dramatisation of Microserfs has been an act of nostalgia … Continue reading Weeknote 613: jingle bells