Category: Life

Random thoughts on life

  • Barcelona – my first Automattic meetup

    Barcelona – my first Automattic meetup

    Last week I was away at my first Automattic meetup – in this case a meetup for the VIP team.

    I left, via East Midlands Airport, on Sunday 29th January and returned to Birmingham Airport (yeah, I know, but it’s complicated) on Saturday 4th February. The meetup itself was the 5 weekdays in-between.

    A main venue was arranged which had bedrooms on the 1st floor along with a casual area that we often met-up at, particularly for lunches, and even a very nice lady who helped with any arrangements that needed making.

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  • Project Vegas

    Project Vegas

    So, this is the weirdest thing. I was perusing Twitter earlier and saw the hashtag #HuntMustGo was trending. What was that about? I clicked on it and noticed a top post was from the comedian Johnny Vegas. I clicked through to his account, for no particular reason I’ll admit, and noticed that he’d been in Stoke today.

    Now, Stoke is where my daughter goes to University, where she is a comic book art course. I then noticed the banner at the top of his Twitter account appeared to be related to 2000 AD – it’s genuinely hard to make it out entirely but it appeared to me to be that. So I tweeted him, just to let him know about the Uni course, as they have close ties with 2000 AD. To my surprise, Johnny replied.

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  • What Happened to the Lupo Investment?

    What Happened to the Lupo Investment?

    For those who watched Dragons’ Den on Sunday you will have seen Peter Jones invest £100k in Lupo, a company that produced a smart gadget tracker, similar to Tile. However, the next day it was confirmed in the media that after “due diligence” he’d withdrawn his offer. It’s not been said why but a quick search shows a few alarm bells, any one of which may (or may not) have been the reason.

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  • My Goals for 2017

    My Goals for 2017

    Well, I’ll be honest, 2017 is already getting off to an amazing start but that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything I want to achieve this year.

    However, my new job has a big impact on all of this and some of my goals for this year are simply to continue existing things, but finding where to fit them around my new role.

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  • Possibly the most British thing I’ll read today…

    Possibly the most British thing I’ll read today…

    Responding to an earthquake near Scarborough, one resident was quoted as saying…

    I had some oil in my frying pan and as I moved it across to the sink I lost all control of it all of a sudden. The oil went all over the carpet in the kitchen.

    BBC News

    It’s all happening in Yorkshire.