Train of Thought

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 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!

I bought some Swedish cheeses as a christmas present for my Dad. Can anyone translate the labels, so that he can explain them to folk who want to try them out? There are three:   

With thanks to my Mum for a lovely Advent Calendar!

A couple of weeks ago, we went up to the Lake district to join the LYPWG for their Christmas weekend. Richard knew most of the people there, but it was my first time to meet them all. It was also my first time in the Lake District. 

As the photos show, the conditions when we walked (the photos are from a walk we weren’t on, but I bet our photos would look similar) were not much fun. However, hindsight is a wonderful thing, and I now look back  on a fun weekend. The fancy dress party certainly helped!

I’ve uploaded a photo album.