A year of work in progress – day 220

Day 220 – 19 December 2014 Have you ever imagined what it would be like to navigate in space? I mean deep space. Back here on Earth in a sort of Euclidian way it is easy. We can safely assume that getting from B to A is just the reverse of getting from A to … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 220

A year of work in progress – day 219

Day 219 – 18 December 2014 Four meetings with your boss in one day! Who arranged this? OK, I don’t mind meeting up with him, I have some things to say and we get on well enough but you can have too much of a good thing. One of them is our Resources Management Team … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 219

A year of work in progress – day 218

Day 218 – 17 December 2014 I wrote this during breaks in a Microsoft event at the Hilton Hotel in Gateshead. I was logged on to Durham’s system using our virtual private network and through the hotel’s wireless network. I had caught up with my email however before I had left home to get the … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 218

A year of work in progress – day 217

Day 217 – 16 December 2014 I don’t think that I’ve ever been to Derby before that is until today. I’d been passed it, perhaps even through it but don’t recall ever stopping there. I might have been there for the football in the dark and distant past. This morning five of us made the … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 217

A year of work in progress – day 215

Day 215 – 12 December 2014 Number nine on my list of ten things to achieve this year was to finish my book. Well technically this one is in the bag. I’ve finished it but haven’t published it. I keep meaning to read it through and am thinking of publishing it for the Kindle. I … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 215

A year of work in progress – day 214

Day 214 – 11 December 2014 Assuming that I am not struck down by pestilence or God’s will then there are ten days left of this blog. You may recall that I set out to achieve the same number of things this year and so it felt like a good idea to finish off with … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 214

A year of work in progress – day 213

Day 213 – 10 December 2014 Despite the weather bomb the 4:45 pulled away on time from Newcastle Central Station. Leaving home at such an ungodly hour reminded me of the years that I worked in Cambridge when I would regularly leave at such time in the morning. All that was on the road were … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 213

A year of work in progress – day 212

Day 212 – 9 December 2014 Before I start, I have to tell you that we’ve been trialling some of these new Windows Surface Pro devices, half laptop and half tablet (perhaps a laplet or a tabtop?). Initial reaction has been good, indeed Paul in Audit was heard to mention that it was better than … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 212

A year of work in progress – day 210

Day 210 – 5 December 2014 Some months ago, when it was warm, Tony and I agreed to help Alli and Ashley to do some leaflet drops (Tony then claimed to know nothing about it!). It was all to improve the Digital Durham take up. Today it was very cold and it didn’t seem such … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 210

A year of work in progress – day 209

Day 209 – 4 December 2014 There is a bridge in Paris across the Seine to which lovers have attached thousands upon thousands of padlocks as tokens of their undying love for each other.   They write their names on the padlock and toss the keys into the water below. The bridge is called the Pont … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 209