I sent out an email to a bunch of friends and family on Monday morning announcing the fact that I’ve resigned my job to focus on personal projects for the remainer of 2010. The response was overwhelming; I received many emails and phone calls, all very supportive, and some offering help. I’ve achieved the following [...]
2010 was to be my year of “no unfinished project”. I tried really hard to work 10 hours a week on “Postal Worker”, but slotting in two hours of development time between 9am and 1am each weeknight resulted in burnout (we have a new baby in the house, and I just couldn’t continue to burn [...]
For dinner tonight: 15 fresh clams, 15 fresh tiger prawns and a 750g silver perch, stuffed with spring onions and coriander. All cooked on a disposable charcoal barbeque and eaten with Thai “seafood sauce”, a delicious combination of green chilli, coriander, garlic and palm sugar. Smelled like Bangkok in our tiny back courtyard. Total cost: [...]
Right happy with my new job this week… got some serious stuff done in four days, including a pretty comprehensive deployment script. And who can turn their nose up at free Nandos lunches, beer distribution while you work, and an empty office at 5pm every day?