Updates from Ed Ross

Updates from Ed Ross

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Feb 7 / 3:39pm

Tidy up!

It may seem like common sense to most people, but having a tidy, clean house, is quite a good thing! Shame it seems to get messy soon after you tidy it though. Our house hasn't quite settled down since I moved in after getting married on October, but we're getting there. Keeping the lounge nice and tidy and the kitchen clean are the most important. We're moving on to the spare room soon. Trouble is, we don't have much storage space left. Neither of us think we should pay to store things in one of those self-storage places, so we are really going to have to think hard about what else we will have to get rid of.

I'm still loosing weight on the diet, which is good!

Work is still very busy.

Have a great week.
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Jan 31 / 3:45pm

Gone preachin'

Wow - the end of another week. Almost forgot about my blog post, but here it is:
This week's been another busy week at work.

Most interesting stuff happened today:
My wife and I went to a church in Essex (as we had been invited by a couple of friends) and gave our testimonies to the congregation. It was quite a good experience, and something I'd like to do again.
There was so much to say about God's goodness: how He is the one we were created to worship, how His Grace is the power for forgiveness, and for enabling us to do his work and to live day by day for Him. Quite a lot of stuff that came out of the DTS course really.

Then we went out for a meal: it is quite hard to keep to a diet in restaurants - even relatively liberal diets like the "Slimming World" one we are on. Anyway, I've lost a bit of weight in the last week, which is good to know (for me anyway)!  
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Jan 24 / 2:53pm

Busy!

Well, this has been another incredibly busy week at work: I'm helping to get hundreds of users on a legacy system to migrate on to our latest system. It's slow going, but we'll get there eventually.

Weight wise, I've lost a few hundred grams, so at least it's a loss.

I've been trying to use Google Wave a bit. It'll take to work to make it a non-beta product, but it's interesting stuff.

This week I said goodbye to a friend who's leaving Portsmouth. Was sad, but encouraging to know he's going off to do good things elsewhere.

Have a great week.
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Jan 17 / 2:35pm

4 point update

I have to keep this short this week, so here it goes:
  • Work was busy.
  • Having guests for dinner on Saturday night was good.
  • I didn't loose any weight on the diet, but I didn't gain any either. This week I should be able to make it the gym, so hopefully that will help too.
  • I'm enjoying being able to listen to podcasts at double speed on the iPod Nano I got for Christmas.
I see from my stats that people are reading my blog posts, so please if you are: what would you like to me talk about? What keeps you coming back here? What do you want to know? Please post a comment in the form below.

Have a great week.
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Jan 10 / 10:53am

Let it snow, let it snow, let it.....oh, it snowed!

Well, this week's been a bit on an oddity. The UK saw a huge amount of snow. More than I can remember, and it meant I had to work from home, rather than risking the drive in to the office. Given that we have a VPN with which I can use RDP, I wasn't too affected (apart from not being able to call any customers).

Given the schools were also off, and my wife is a teacher, it gave us time to be together during the week, while I carried on with my work. It was interesting to see some of the articles she was studying on Dyslexia (I'm Dyslexic too), and other special needs.

I had a thought today about TV shopping channels: it's funny how in a world of web based shopping, we still have many thriving TV shopping channels. I guess there is just a different market out there who are comfortable giving their credit card details over the phone to the people on the telly, but not over a secure internet connection, if they go online at all!

This week was quite a big one in the world of technology, with the Consumer Electronics Show taking place in America. There was quite a lot of talk about 3D technology. I'm not sure how many people are actually going to want 3D in their home. I think they have a few more years left to get the technology usable before widespread adoption. Given that many people might have just splashed out for a new TV, I don't see many, especially in this economic climate rushing out to get another new one, just for the 3D effect!

A funny thing happened yesterday: back in October, when I got married, a bag of cards was hidden in our house for us to open when we got back from Honeymoon. Only trouble was, the person who hid them for us forgot where they hid them, and when we searched the house, we couldn't find them either. But yesterday, they finally emerged from the one corner of the house we wouldn't have thought of looking in! So it was with surprise, fun and relief that my wife and I finally proceeded to open about 50 cards from the wedding. We must have seemed quite ungrateful to all those who had put gifts inside the cards and who we haven't thanked yet - but we just didn't know they'd given us anything to thank them for.

Oh, and my wife and I have decided to really go for it in term on weight loss. You'll be able to track my weight online if you really want, but there isn't much to look at yet, as I've only done one reading. I'm using an online service, Skinnyr, to track my weight. I actually signed up back in 2007, but didn't keep it up to date. Maybe this time - now I have someone doing it with me, I'll have a better chance.

I've received a message to say that the roads are clear enough to go back in to work tomorrow, so at least I'll be able to give customers a call as well as email them, which is handy, as I need to speak to quite a few of them.

Have a great week. Keep warm! 
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Jan 3 / 12:34pm

Things I've done since my last blog post

It's been a while, but I now intend to be back. Here's what I've done:
More to follow in the coming weeks.

Any questions?
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Jun 2 / 12:50pm

Almost there

I've almost finished uploading all my photos from India and the DTS course. Once they are all on, I'll start highlighting some of them here.
Other than that, I'm getting on well at work, and plans for the wedding are steady.
I hope you are well.
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Apr 23 / 4:05pm

Energy Efficiency

I've started listening to podcasts again, and one I listened to today (the Glocal Family Podcast), had a feature on new cars vs old cars, which reminded me of a series of talks on Energy Efficiency given by Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute that you might like to listen to:

Quite a lot to think about!
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Apr 13 / 1:34am

Still Alive!

I'm still here! Sorry I've not posted for a while: when I got back to Portsmouth I was a little busy trying to get a job. Now I've got one, so I'm a little busy getting to and from work!

I am happy to say that I was offered the full time position I mentioned in my previous post.

I've also managed to get on and upload some more photos of India. There will be more (photos and posts to this blog) later.

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Mar 16 / 2:53pm

Job hunting update

Well, for the last couple of weeks or so, I've pretty much concentrating on getting a job back in the Portsmouth area. I've had a few interviews, which have gone OK, but I'm yet to hear back from any of them. However, it doesn't really matter, as I've been able to secure a weekly-rolling-contract temp job at a good company that is not too far away. I like this approach: I'm able to work, and be paid for it, and when they see that I can do the job and they like me, they can employ me as a full time employee. I consider this better than an interview, as I can see if I like the job as well as the company likes me.

The company delivers online messaging services for companies all over the world. It is funny: in my last job I set up accounts for new customers, and set about transferring ISAs for them....in this job I'll be setting up accounts for new customers and setting about transferring domain names for them!

I've managed to upload quite a few more of my photos from the lecture phase now, which you can view on my photo site. I've not had the time to add details to all of them yet, but you might enjoy looking at the photos and wondering what was going on! Outreach phase photos will be on the way at some point, and then I plan to feature some on the blog with more detailed explanations of what was going on.

I hope you are well. Thanks for reading.

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