December 09 2020
So I've set both a really good example (take your vacation!) and a really bad example (Don't leave it all til the last minute!) for work folks, and therefore today was my last day at work in 2020. It's been a year.
One of the things I'm especially looking forward …
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November 22 2020
Short a quick trip to Zurich in January 2020, the trip I was on was the last time I travelled outside Ireland, until now. I also don't plan on going anywhere until mid-2021 or thereabouts.
Much as all that's been written about how this year has been, one of the …
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November 09 2019
It's been over two years, and while I'm still patiently waiting for the demise of Medium, it only took re-running pelican-quickstart to make my makefiles work again. Plus we haven't deprecated serving static content just yet, so there's that.
Most of the selling points for blog platforms these days is …
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An Update on Life
The last few months have been a bit hectic, let's say that.
Work
In work, a few things happened. I got promoted to 'Director', which is the top end of the management progression, bottom of executive. What either of these mean, I'll probably never know. About a year or so …
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June 12 2016
I was away last week with work to an offsite at the Club Med, which as far as I can
gather is one of those soviet-era collective holiday camps for people who weren't in a soviet. I bet the soviets never
had nespresso on demand.
Bizarrely, the weather in Ireland …
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