October 17th, 2010
As I was saying...
It seems time for a "Oh crap, I haven't written anything for far too long" posts.
Over the eleven months or so since the last entry I've been insanely busy, then had periods of absolutely nothing. The blogging hiatus started due to a manic period of working, mostly trying to put various bids together. One in particular came to nothing (at that point), whereas another led to a year's placement for one of the team in China, and to me making my first trip there to kick off the engagement by reviewing their Domino and SMTP architecture. Since then we've implemented Sametime instant messaging and Traveler mobile email (think stripped down Blackberry), and made a host of performance, stability and process improvements. Not bad for six months.
In May, the UK had its first general election of the post-Blair era, bringing back the Tories, with their figleaf of a LibDem party trying to convince the populace that there wouldn't be a return to the ideological targeting of services such as we saw in the eighties and early nineties. Ed Miliband now has to work hard to establish a new narrative for the Labour party, which isn't going to be an easy trick.
The summer was dominated by the World Cup (and for me, the opportunity to burn up lot of days off in lieu of time worked out of hours watching it).
Since then, there's been more work, including steering the development of our migration strategy for customers from MS Exchange 2003 to 2010. Happily, the guy on the team I asked to run this really seems to "get it", producing work of the highest quality, just as his colleague in China has been doing on the Lotus track. Elsewhere, we're in the process of bidding for the re-tendered work alluded to above, which is a major piece of directory integration.
Currently, though, I'm enjoying a few days respite, trying to catch up on this site and the Thames Ironworks place. taking my long-suffering wife to her first concert (more later) and celebrating her birthday tomorrow.
Note: Promises to write more regularly are not to be considered binding.
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