So, my employer is not evil, I can keep the blog, it was all a big misunderstanding. No, really. Oh, yeah, I’m confused too, but I’m more feeling a bit silly about the whole thing. Though it was good to realize that I did care about this blog and wanted to continue it, despite not [...]
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Or not
I’ve now heard a rumour that I can blog after all, so I think I’ll keep this thing up, at least until I get some sort of official communication one way or the other. No, I’m not going rogue on you, all I’m getting from work is hearsay so it would be wrong for me [...]
Wednesday is a bad day for wallowing
I’m having a bad week. Monday sucked, but I never really expect anything good to come out of Mondays so I got over it. Then Tuesday sucked, for a different reason, and I was starting to feel a bit worn down but it was still early days. Then today came along and kicked me in [...]
Supreme embarrassment time
Here’s the talk in all its nervousness. Please be gentle with me. I do like that O’Reilly had my actual talk proposal up on its site here. I hope people don’t start believing that my friend Mark is mean to animals just because his name and “drown” and “cat” exist in the same sentence in [...]
I was in a keynote, for realz
Gillian Gunson, originally uploaded by O’Reilly Conferences. I had thought the worst case scenario for my Ignite talk last night would be that I’d pee myself. It turns out that I don’t have much of an imagination, because the real worst thing would be that they liked my talk and were making me do it [...]
You know that saying about doing something you’re scared of every day?
Well, I’m scared every day about something I’m doing next week, is that good enough? I’m going to be doing an Ignite talk at the MySQL Conference on the Wednesday evening. Exactly 5 minutes long, where I have 20 slides that automatically advance every 15 seconds. Oh dear. I haven’t done a presentation since university, [...]
In airport security
So I was at the Vancouver airport yesterday and had a rather interesting experience in security. Luckily it had nothing to do with drugs or weapons or cavity searches, though those might’ve made for a better story. No, I got through the check just fine. I was grabbing my jacket and bags when a female [...]
