Train of Thought

I’m a fan of typography, and this is a wonderful rendering of a great document - the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

I’m now about half way through my sabbatical year, so I thought a progress update would be in order. You may recall that I wanted to see if I could do two things:

• Integrate more cycling into my habits.
• Find out if I have the capacity to start my own software company.

Taking the cycling first, I haven’t much. Indeed, I cycle as infrequently as when I had a full time job. An early start has fizzled out, and my main activity has been to watch this year’s Tour de France. However, I got a nice new cycle computer for my birthday last week, so perhaps the trick of ‘new equipment’ will get me going (it has worked in the past).

On the software company front, I have made more progress, although I don’t claim to have a going concern yet! I have formed Transmission Begins, and developed its first product, My Own TV Channel. This is now just starting to be used by people other than me. It’s well received whenever I discuss it, so my current plan is to improve it somewhat and then focus on building a service business around it. The software itself is available for download with an open-source licence.

Apologies to those of you who don’t know a speaker of a little known language, ook. Clearly there is a sufferer in Grantham.

No pixels were photoshopped in the creation of this post.

As the second in an occasional series, Philippe sent me this pic he took. It’s a rather nice image of cyclists showing at the Catto Gallery recently. It looks like I’ve missed the chance to see it for real. Ah well, thanks Philippe!

My homepage now updates itself from various places, including this blog and twitter. One less maintenance chore on this website.

I’ve joined another social website: last.fm

I’m digitalreality, and the house music computer is ladyhamilton. Spotting why it’s called that shouldn’t be hard if you know a little about me.

I’m looking forward to hearing some new music.

I’m one month in, and I’ve not even blogged about it. Oops!

I’m on sabbatical for around a year. I’ll try to write a little about what I get up to.

Late last year I was thinking through my options, and decided it was time to try something a little different. As I was wrapping up for this sabbatical, I ran through all my holiday records. In nearly eight years of working in the UK with 5 weeks of holiday time each year, I had only once had more than a week in one go (And that was to come out to far-flung parts of my family, so was good, but not stress free!). What would I be able to do if I had a little more time?

After ten years in the software industry, I’m in the position to take some time away from my regular job as a sabbatical. I want to see if I can learn some things about myself:

• Do I want to integrate more cycling into my habits?
• Do I have the capacity to start my own software company?

I’ve got a year to figure out the answers (Eleven months from now…).

I thought’d I’d share the pic that Jenny mentioned.I assume it was as tasty as the other products Konditor and Cook sell!

I’m not the worlds biggest fan of Valentines day, despite being a bit of a romantic at heart. meish.org says it so well!

Hello to my readers from Symbian who may be missing this posting from ‘Chat’.

 My photo album for 2007 is now live. As usual, I’ve removed images of people who don’t appear on the web elsewhere. The rise of flickr and the like means there are more people here!