sabbatical-2017

  • Day 81

    My sabbatical leave is almost finished, with three days left and a deep dive back into the world of Automattic next Monday, when I’ll have the immense pleasure to meet my 600 colleagues face to face, many for the first time, in Canada. That’s a pretty intense way to go back after such a long…

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  • Day 58

    A while ago I posted about the trip to the UK I was planning for August. We leave today, back on August 31st. Hopefully, there will be photos 🙂

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  • Day 42

    Today is day 42 in my 84 days sabbatical leave, otherwise defined as “halfway”, or the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything”… Instead of answers, this weekend I filled my head with questions, after reading a great article about what the future of Artificial Intelligence could be. If you haven’t…

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  • Day 29

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  • Day 24

    In the clouds What? Did you really think that while on sabbatical I’d post every day? 🙂

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  • Day 19

    Gazpacho

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  • Day 18

    I'm taking advantage of the free time to do a long due check up, and today I had my first appointment with the ophthalmologist. The result is that at 46 and having spent half of my time looking at a computer screen for more than three decades my eyes still work great: the right is…

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  • Day 17

    Caponata

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  • Day 16

    It works!

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  • Day 15

    On the subway platform, this afternoon, with Zoé: Me: “Hey, Zoé, do you know how many people live in Vienna?” Her: “Nope” Me: “About 1.8 million” Her: “Why do you need to know that? In case you want to check if anyone’s missing?” 😀

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  • Day 14

    Today’s the end of the second weekend of my sabbatical, and as I unilaterally decided, the end of “Phase 1“… The assiduous reader will notice at this point that I never mentioned that there would be “phases” during this leave. Well, guess what? That’s one of the privileges of sabbaticals: you get to make the…

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  • Day 13

    The June season of Hearthstone finished last night, I didn’t make it to legend after all. I hit rank 3, my best rank ever so far. July is my last chance. I understood a couple of things looking at my stats for the end of June. I need to have the patience to play one…

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