Really interesting slide show by Drew Houston on what they have learnt about starting up Dropbox.
http://www.slideshare.net/gueste94e4c/dropbox-startup-lessons-learned-3836587
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The weekend we got back from a visit to England primarily to see my parents as it was my Dads 60th Birthday – Happy Birthday! and we also managed to see some friends, and meet up to do a little business.
First stop was London. Its always interesting to go back to the place after having lived there for about 10 years. I forgot how busy SoHo gets during the day, but that was made up by other factors. London is overwhelming with choice, vibrancy and colorful people. One thing that was new to me was how much harder it is to get around with a pram than Stockholm. Here is Harriet at her first visit to an English Pub. She was asked to leave..
After a couple of days we moved on to Bath to visit my cousin and his family. Its always nice to visit Bath, a more relaxed venue than London. It was good to catch up, and we have a brief trip to the farmers market.
Then it was on to Exmouth via a scenic drive. My parents hired a very nice apartment on the sea front which was much appreciated and we could watch the usual English sea-side vacation weather in its full glory.
We took a drive to see some wildlife and black swans.
Visit to a Donkey Sanctuary
Went to the small fishing village of Beer (no we didn’t have a chance to have any):
And at the end a really good get together with a lot of the family for my Dads 60th.
Finally have done something about the sorry state of these pages.
I had a quick 3 hour sprint today to see how much I could do with the aim to improve this site in the following ways:
- Improve readability
- Get rid of all the unneccesary links and content
- Generally update the look and colours
- Remove that horrible header image that I had
- Make the site more useful for viewers
3 hours isn’t a long time to do a complete redesign so I consider this the undesigned addition and its probably all the better for it.
I also took the opportunity to do the site in HTML 5. No canvas tags yet.
Next up I will be reintroducing things like search and archive links because it really does need them, but until then I feel happier about what I can see here.
Awesome silicon based material for hacking anything – http://sugru.com/
I have just spent the past 90 minutes updating contact details – much longer than it should take. Would be nice if I could just update say on Plaxo, and linkedin, Facebook etc would receive the updates but I guess we haven’t got to that stage yet. Have also sent out emails to lots of people, so apologies if you haven’t received one.
The main change is my mobile number – it belonged to vizrt, with whom my last day was officially the 31st of December. So please remove that from your records, I am waiting for company registration details to go through before I get a proper new mobile number but in the meantime reach me at tim@ the usual places or skype me on timchild.
Just to reiterate – my mobile number is no more.
It’s been another Christmas, and almost a full year.
Christmas was good this year – Mum and Dad came over and spent it in Sweden, a little bit of time in Stockholm but mostly in the country. I think they really enjoyed meeting Harriet for the first time. Harriet enjoyed meeting them too but I don’t think that she really noticed Christmas this year.
She got lots of nice things to make her life cosy, her teddy bear and soft toy collection is growing almost as fast as her clothing collection is.
I seemed to spend most of the time cooking, this year was Beef and Moose Wellington. I would say it suits Beef better but it was good to try anyways.
So now its just some time before new year.
Been quite busy over the last week, getting things ready for the baby and it was Kristin’s Birthday.
We went out for a meal at Sjögräsin Södermalm ( south Stockholm ) and it was really good. I had a nice Reindeer steak with Hazelnuts and Cranberries, and then a Run tasting for desert. Next time I will go for a starter as the portions are quite small in this dish, though I saw a couple of tables over a huge portion of what looked like a salad being served. Anyway I would recommend it.
This weekend we went to Paladar de Cuba again, this time for a friends leaving party. Love the food there too.
At home last night I cooked a lovely Roast Lamb which I think was almost as good as anything I have eaten out recently though it did serve to show me that I really need a meat thermometer. Getting lamb the right temperature in the middle is rather tricky when its not on the bone.
In the past week I have also been playing around with my hackintosh, a seriously easy build and a great way to get a fast and inexpensive OS X solution.
Its been a while since I have posted an update here other some technical posts.
So the big news is that we are expecting a baby, and this has really consumed most of the thoughts over the summer and changed our behaviour somewhat! Everything seems to be about getting ready for the big day (In November) and the huge changes that will come with it.
But we managed to go on some picnics and tried to make the most of the short summer here in Sweden.
I have been working on the bedroom which I can say is finally just about ready. The door way is filled in, decorated and the plasma screen put up on the wall. I wallpapered the other couple of walls and painted everything else. We both think it looks good. I have also been sorting out a desk to work from at home, and the network and geeky computer stuff – probably will post about that at some other time.
That took up some of the holidays, then we went to Bulgaria for some sun and relaxation – it was nice but I don’t think that we will be going again as the Bulgarians seem to have ruined their own countryside in the name of tourism.
For the last part of the holiday Mum came to visit us in Sweden and we took her in to the countryside and a good time was had by all.
So now its the big run up to the baby being born!
