Oh what a beautiful day
April 21st, 2006Some days bring nothing but good news. why.openoffice.org is taking shape nicely and the plumbers have worked out how to build it in the infrastructure.
In the day job, recruitment is going well, and great team work has managed to turn round some projects that were looking decidedly shaky just a week ago. The programme is now looking distinctly healthy. A one-to-one with my boss revealed we both had some spare capacity and it was time to start setting the world to rights, so that looks interesting for the future.
Then O’Reilly have at last published my piece in praise of WordPress. I wrote this back in December as a way of saying thanks to the WordPress guys for a wonderful piece of coding. As time has gone by I realise I do less damage to open-source projects by writing words about them than by writing code for them 
Also on the writing front I had a response from the APM journal. They’re running a theme on sustainability (a topic close to my heart) – I sent them a piece on sustainability in IT projects – their reply: This is a very good piece – we were all sitting here nodding heads in vigorous agreement! They then spoiled it a bit by asking me to resend it to them in MS-Word format 
I suppose I’ll let them publish it anyway.
And if that wasn’t enough, I met wife and student daughter after work for a quick Italian meal before going off (minus daughter) to the Usher Hall for a truly stunning performance of the Verdi Requiem by the RSNO. The RSNO Chorus gave the performance of a lifetime – everything from drifting angelic voices to a massive Hampden roar. At the end Deneve held the entire hall in absolute silence for what seemed like an eternity – pure theatre – before the place erupted.
And finally, Have I Got News For You is back for another season – so enough blogging, off to watch the box.