What happened here? I'm staring at screens like this all day now. I'm literally trying to work out how to recompile a compiler to compile my compiler. On two different platforms.



Plus I seem to be doing a lot of writing code to analyse code... GEEK!

Tags: computers, work

.. apparently my idea about how to improve the technical perception of our company is 'move of the year' and everybody's very excited about it.

I'll tell you what isn't working: two of the clocks in my flat died in the last 12 hours. Don't bother with those "Pure" DAB radios - they crash and then fail to wake you up. Or if you're already awake, you can't see the time until you touch the 'snooze bar'. So you lie in bed waiting  for Radio 4 to come on and then after a while you start to think 'hang on a bit... something's not right here' and then realise it's crashed. And get out of bed an hour late. Happens every time.

Tags: clocks, work

Performance review went entirely promotioney. I don't know if I was worried about it - I don't think I was.

I realised on Monday that all I felt like doing was playing out some improvised music in a place where I felt relaxed. I started off by trying to find a squat or something - to do it on a Sunday morning at an after party. Didn't get much help, and then remembered how cheap Filthy's was to hire. So I got the ball rolling on the same day. Emailed, spoke to the landlord, sorted it out for next Wednesday.

A frightening number of people have said they are coming... Which is good, I guess, but they will have no idea what to expect. I've felt like I could do something like this for years - when I used to play the piano for hours, I imagined myself in a concert hall or something. Seemed fairly ludicrous, but it made me at least try making music solo (I never used to think I could do it on my own).

Recent events have given me the confidence to go out on this limb. I will prepare my instruments, but I won't prepare the music. It will come as it comes. I hope. As long as I can get into the state that I can get into at home.

Tags: music, work