100DaysToOffload

Tuesday 28 April Over the years, I have maintained a variety of blogs and migrated my content between most popular blogging platforms (WordPress, Blogger, Drupal, Ghost, Joomla, Habari, Typepad, Tumblr, Posterous, Jekyll, Django, Octopress, Nikola, Hugo, Pelican). For this #100DaysToOffload exercise, I am using write.as. I currently have a neglected but perfectly functional blog which uses a static site generator (Hugo) and publishes the content on Amazon S3. However, it’s five months since I posted on that blog and I can guarantee that if I were to use that platform, the workflow would be:...

Monday 27 April I don’t normally write much about my job. I guess that’s because I am wary of revealing company confidential information but I work for Oracle Corporation and have done so since 2006. I am a Technical Consultant (‘Jack of all Trades, Master of None’). I find ‘Dear Diary’ blog posts quite tedious but anyway, during these strange times, it’s something to write about. I have been a remote worker since I returned to work following a ‘minor health issue’ in 2011 so this remote working thing isn’t novel, strange, challenging or depressing for me....

Sunday 26 April Wife cut my hair. Probably not as good as the lady who visits us at home but my sideburns no longer resemble those of a 1970’s George Best. Fringe is sub-optimal but who cares. Not me. Another walk in Richmond Park. Entered at Kingston Gate, walked up to Isabella Plantation car park and back again. Don’t know how many steps or distance but it takes us about an hour....

Saturday 25 April Went for a walk in Richmond Park. Still swerving people, mainly on the roads approaching the park and at the entrance gates. Great to see families out on bikes, dog walkers, people jogging and folk enjoying the open spaces with no cars and no cyclists on the roads. Thankfully, didn’t see any cyclists flouting the massive ‘NO CYCLING’ signs on every gate as that was getting irritating and rather stressful....