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Vox Hunt: Workin' Hard

May 15, 2008
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Show us what you're working on right now.
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MT4 RBI

Helping my collegues get to grips with Movable Type 4...

Planning a Movable Type upgrade

Mar 7, 2008
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The Week So Far…

Feb 21, 2008
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Frosty Spider Web

It's been one of those "feet not touching the ground" kind of weeks.

I started it up in Suffolk, at Mum's, doing some stuff for her prior to her week in Norwich for chemo. We woke to a frosty morning, with some stunning frosty cobwebs in the back garden. A morning running chores, and three hour drive to Sutton, lead into a small nightmare.

Now, if there are any Six Apart people reading this, you are now getting a Hard Stare from me. You see, we upgraded our internal Movable Type server to MT 4.01 with enterprise pack. And it broke. It took three days to resolve, and it turns out that a bug in the upgrade script code was to blame. Not fun. Not fun at all.

Tuesday was a combination of hard work on a presentation I delivered on Wednesday, and a retreat to Caffe Nero in Sutton for an experiment or two with Seesmic, a new video conversation site:

Caffe Nero, Sutton

And its…interesting. It's an attempt to move video onwards from a pure publishing model, into the sort of conversational model you see in blogs. The key is making all the recording and encoding in-built into the web app, so that you just record and publish straight away. No uploading. No waiting. It could be very interesting.

The Packed Lunch Crowd

And today, I pootled into central London to do a presentation to a bunch of people from recruitment agencies, to support our sales teams. It was not what you'd call a well-informed audience, at least on my subject. Less than 25% had ever read a blog, and less than 5% read them regularly. Sometimes I get frustrated with the slow pace of change at RBI, but today reminded me of just how far ahead we are sometimes…

Vox Hunt: My Latest Download

Oct 10, 2007
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Audio: Show us a song or album you've recently downloaded.

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Katie Melua

Because sexy-voiced easy listening is great for writing to. Or answering e-mails to. Or doing crufty Movable Type work to.

Testing Crossposting

Aug 19, 2007
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Just testing a Movable Type plugin to cross-post to Vox.

Presentation: Done

Mar 21, 2007
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David Jacobs talks

I survived.

I got up in front of a audience of maybe 60 or 70 people, talked about what we're doing with blogging in RBI for half an hour, and survived. Anil didn't leap from his chair and wrestle me to the ground. Chris even said something nice about my presentation, but then, I'm a client, so…

Nearly lost my voice as a result, mind, but I got there.

I'm now able to relax, enjoy the rest of my time here in New York, and get all excited about the new features coming to Movable Type.

*phew*

From the iPod #1

Jan 3, 2007
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Songs of Distant Earth

Mike Oldfield

Today's stress-reduction listening is Mike Oldfield's Songs of Distant Earth. This is one of my earliest CDs, bought back in the early 90s, when I was doing stupid amounts of both reading and writing and so was on a real instrumental music kick. (There are vocals on this album, but they're not generally comprehensible, and thus don't interfere with my thought processes).

I recommend it highly if you ever have to spend a few hours correcting other people's Movable Type template errors.

Back at the Coal Face

Jan 3, 2007
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Ruined Coffee Cup

After an entertaining 20 minutes prising my wife out of bed with a crowbar this morning (she wanted to be up at a reasonable hour this morning, and knew she wouldn't manage it alone), I am now back in the office.

I note that IS have (briefly) broken Movable Type while I was away, and that Windows Live Messenger is no longer working.

And I've had my quota of coffee for this morning.

I suspect that this is going to be a long, hard day.

Desk clearing (still) in progress

Jul 11, 2006
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Quill & Inkwell 1

Another busy day's desk clearing at EG today. One more day, and I should be free to take up residence at RBI central full time.

Spent a little chunk of the day fiddling around with Movable Type 3.3 on my own blog, trying to get a feel of how it operates, and how I'm going to set things up for our bloggers. The single feature I'm probably most excited by is the Widget Manager, although the activity feeds may well be invaluable, too. Exciting, exciting.

I'd have liked to have spent longer playing, but the sooner I clear my desk, the sooner I can go full time on the new project. Humbug.