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{ Monthly Archives } May 2008

Ticket to ride - a break from the rat-race in Fermanagh

I’m spending a few days down the country before I start my new my job catching up with my family, tinkering on some personal projects and just generally “getting my head showered.”
I’m enjoying the break from the daily grind with my only real task being to steel myself for the upcoming change to my 9-5 [...]

Bye bye $BIG_COMPANY - Steve leaves the enterprise

I’m preparing myself for my last cycle home from $BIG_COMPANY.
On the whole the experience has been, well, experience: neither good nor bad but worthwhile all the same. I do have gray hairs now though.
Soon, process monitoring, environment management, receiving 700 emails a day and being on-call will be a distant memory. Along with my nemesis [...]

BarCamp Belfast 2008

I attended BarCamp last year and I heard this morning that details of this year’s un-conference have been confirmed.
The fun is happening on Saturday 21st June, 9am - 5pm in the Peter Froggatt Centre at Queens University Belfast.
See you there!

Oats - weekly batch preparation

I read Trent’s post on preparing oats at the weekend and decided to write about my own process. I’m also relieved I’m not the only one doing this kind of thing
Part of my weekend routine involves preparing my breakfasts for the coming week. I boil a large saucepan of eggs which end up [...]