Digital by Default

Tag: weeknotes

  • myWeek (s4e17)

    Open(tech) your mind It is Sunday morning as I write this — one of the few West Wing episodes I don’t like much from the early years is on mute on the TV and to be honest I have been staring at a blank document in Ulysses for a while. For the first time this ‘season’ I’m struggling…

  • myWeek (s4e16)

    The grape depression Gentle reader let me be honest. Monday was bad. The kind of hangover that makes you rethink decades of decisions. The kind of day where the idea of being vertical sounds like a fairy tale told to scare children. Where any food of nutritional value was worthless and ignored. It had an…

  • myWeek (s4e15)

    Florence and the machines Week Fifteen — which means I have outlasted the Defra detour and still going strong-ish… This was a pretty special week as I was in Florence for the mySociety research conference — TICTeC. As ever I managed to make hard work of getting there — there was a taxi protest in the centre of Bristol so I got…

  • myWeek (s4e14)

    There May be trouble ahead Well that livened things up didn’t it? A totally unexpected, snap election in just a few weeks makes things interesting when you work for a digital democracy charity! It is a total mirror universe experience to what I was used to in the civil service. There the discussions are all about…

  • myWeek (s4e13)

    Unlucky for some So I’m going to call this week a ‘blip’. I never really got going and really don’t feel like I got much — if anything — done. A combination of being in quite a bit of pain with my foot at times plus generally feeling a bit run down and worn out meant I was just a…