Random Update

So for the first time since arriving in Chicago I pulled out the bike and went for a 3 hour ride on Sunday. Felt really good except for the inevitable soreness on one's rear for not cycling for so long.

On the day job front, spent a few days in limbo going back and forward on what was actually required to be built. Besides costing us the few days of no progress while these things were debated and discussed, it had the effect of demotivating the team substantially. We're now back at exactly the same requirement scope that we were a week and a half ago (which was documented and agreed back then :-(, but now we have less time to build it, and the team has started wishing for greener pastures. Good one. It will be a busy coming month meeting this deadline.

In other news the infrastructure holding my vanity site together failed again - my investigations are pointing at a hardware fault in some network kit. Will need to play the "swap hardware one item at a time until you find the fault" game. More fun.

That makes my life sound all negative, but it's not. There's lots of positives right now too - plenty of personal triumphs that still need to be blogged :-)

/tech/misc | 02 Aug 2005 | #