Day 62 – 3 April 2014 Day 61 and day 3 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. I like baking cakes. I think that I’m quite good at it, I’m certainly better at them than I am with pastry. We have a cake club at work #cakeclub. Actually there are three of us who … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 62 (Cakes)
A year of work in progress – day 57
Day 57 – 27 March 2014 I thought I’d get the train in this morning as I was in County Hall all day. I tried to check that everything was running fine on the national rail web site only to get a run time error. I must admit to experiencing a little schadenfreude at the … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 57
A year of work in progress – day 56
Day 56 – 26 March 2014 I’ve started to read ‘Fluent in 3 Months’ by Benny Lewis (Benny the Irish Polyglot) with the promise of tips and techniques to help you learn any language. I’m still persevering with my Dutch but progress has stalled even though I’ve been through the CDs twice now. What I … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 56
A year of work in progress – day 55
Day 55 – 25 March 2014 By my calculation I think I am a quarter of the way through the year. I’m assuming that there are 365 days less weekends, bank and normal holidays and this comes to 220 working days. It may be one or two either way. I’m not counting any time I … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 55
A year of work in progress – day 51
Day 51 – 19 March 2014 I’ve been asked to speak at the first Dynamo conference at the beginning of May. Dynamo is a new group that has been set up to represent the ICT sector in the North East. I’ll not get carried away however as I think there will be forty of us … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 51
A year of work in progress – day 49
Day 49 – 14 March 2014 It turns out that Durham County Council has won the ‘Council of the Year’, a prestigious award promoted by the Local Government Chronicle. It’s like an Oscar for best movie, an excellent achievement and some reward for the five years of hard work following Local Government Review when the … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 49
A year of work in progress – day 48
Day 48 – 13 March 2014 I woke this morning feeling a little nervous. I was up for re-election. Since Tom left Sunderland I have been the chair of the North East ICT Managers group (NEICT) and today was the Annual General Meeting. It’s something I’ve enjoyed doing and I think the group is more … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 48
A year of work in progress – day 43
Day 43 – 4 March 2014 I seem to mention Digital Durham all of the time and so I should. It is important to the region, not just the County and takes up a fair chunk of my time. It’s so important that it isn’t even on my ten things to achieve this year. There … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 43
A year of work in progress – day 41
Day 41 – 28 February 2014 For personal reasons I worked from home today. I had a couple of reports to write anyway, one on a Digital Strategy following the meeting on Monday and a second which I had not expected at all. Apparently I had an update to do on Building Schools for the … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 41
A year of work in progress – day 40
Day 40 – 27 February 2014 Last night went well. Everyone listened and there was lots of interest as well as questions and a few laughs. I nearly messed up big time though. I thought I’d sent the wrong presentation to Mid Durham Rural. Pam sorted it out though. Only seven meetings today. We have … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 40
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 