So, how are we all doing? I know updates here have been pretty non-existent this year, but I'm pretty active elsewhere, and the longer you leave it, the harder it gets (fnarr). Probably safe to say the last 18 months or so haven't been the easiest for me but I want to get things back on track. My dad's estate is now sorted out: I finally got a ( Read more... )

People following my Facebook feed may have noticed that I did quite a big presentation for work this week. I work for a large and pretty well known telecoms company. Like most big corporates it does a lot of things and has quite a few programmes to stop staff getting too bored. One of these the the Dilbert-sounding "My Customer Challenge Cup ( Read more... )

First unflocked post for ages. So what's been going on in the somewhat diminished house of Houlden? I'm still waiting to get grant of representation that will allow me to get my dad's affairs sorted out but the intestacy rules have some serious shortcomings about situations that weren't envisaged in the 1920s when they were drawn up, so it isn't ( Read more... )

So, 2010 then. Far too busy to go for a long description of what's been happening in the new year, but I'd say the main points are these ( Read more... )

Ages since the last really long update. I think I've just got out of the habit of sitting down and writing long posts. Conversely I do a lot of status updates on Facebook or even Twitter because it's easier to write a single sentence or even just a fragment of one. Written English is not like spoken English and I refrain from using chavvy txtspk in ( Read more... )

So, life then. Sometimes there's just too much going on to think about but it isn't exciting enough to write about but hey, this is a blog. Anyway, as far as work goes, I was redeployed, then got a short term project to do. Without getting too technical, it involves taking a bunch of Excel spreadsheets and turning them into a proper database. There ( Read more... )