Sunny Portugal

It really is. Just went out for a walk and the weather is lovely. Blue skys and warm sun. T shirt weather.

I could get used to this, but unfortunately I´m heading straight back to the UK this afternoon. I think that I´ve probably spent more time travelling than I have in Portugal, but it is worth it.

My session is in a couple of hours, should be fun.

Moving at speed

Had a fast moving morning. Damian brought a bunch of excellent fellows from Doncaster for a look round and a sample lecture from yours truly. I also treated them to a preview of the session I'm doing tomorrow and it all went very well. Then it was time for my open day talk. Sorry if it went a bit quick folks, I try to pack a lot in there. Perhaps if I got rid of both of the jokes....

Anyhoo, i'm now waiting for my plane to Portugal. Last time I did this it allwent horribly wrong and I had to call off the trip. Here's hoping for better luck this time.

Universe 2 Rob 1

I thought I was doing OK this morning. I’d gone from broken to mended, with all my demo programs for the Portugal sessions working fine. I even sent a Tweet out to Twitter bragging about this.

Big mistake.

There was just one final link in the chain that I need to sort out, which is the tiny router I carry around with me to demos. There is nothing quite like having your own little network to hand, with an address range that you know and love. And I can even use the router to find out what addresses have been allocated so that they are easy to locate from Visual Studio. Unless, of course, I lose the admin password for the thing.

Which I have just done. Or the universe has engineered for my personal torment. Or whatever.  Either way up, I foresee a certain amount of frantic pinging before the session.

Oh well, if you don’t learn something from an experience you really should not be in the game. I’m never going to brag about making something work. Ever again.

Taking Up Twittering

I've started taking Twitter a bit more seriously, just to see what happens.

Twitter is a system for "micro-blogging", where you send tiny blog posts (around 140 characters) to document the minutiae of your daily life. Steven Fry does it, and has attracted loads of "followers" who hang on his every tweet. Although I've no idea if this counts as a recommendation.  You can sign up for an account at twitter.com

I've no idea why anyone would really want to get regular updates from the "Wonderful World of Rob Miles (tm)" but if you do you can find me on Twitter as RobMiles. 

New Dishwasher Time

Talking of burning, we noticed that the dishwasher was making a crackling noise and burning smell this afternoon which stopped when we sprinted up to it and ripped its plug out of the wall socket. I think it is proper broken.

All this was made especially exciting by the fact that I was talking to number one son on the notebook at the time using the webcam, and so we had to carry “him” downstairs so that he could share in the experience, but perhaps without the smell of smoke…