The first week at Salesforce.com has finished, so first impressions are it is a very dynamic and vibrant company and like all my previous employers loads of fantastic people. Enjoyed the welcome and the chance to get active with some customer work along with a long list of education, training and certification ahead of me. Being back based in Staines was a bit...

Now I have finished Christmas and the New Year celebrations I can get back to my gardening leave. Once again I find myself in the position to be on gardening leave, as I am now leaving Oracle to join a competitive organisation in a few weeks time. More about the new role and organisation nearer the time. But having created a list of jobs around the house to be...

I completed my first duathlon today at the Castle Combe circuit. It was the Big Chilly Duathlon cover 2miles running, followed by 10miles cycling before ending with another 2miles running. The track was foggy in the morning, but it cleared a bit and we did have some drizzle just before my race start. Before the race I had thought about what did I want to achieve with...

With the very sad news this week of Steve Jobs passing away and also hearing that my personal trainer has a growth on her brain it really makes you reflect on your own life. I really wish Zoe my PT a speedy recovery as who else is going to get me to keep up my fitness and make sure I exercise regularly….. With life put into perspective with these two events it...

Having lived in our house for about  9 years we always intended to do something with the garden to improve the design, layout and usage, but never quite got to a postion to really progress the space. We started when I was on garden leave about 2.5 years ago by removing all the cracked and broken concrete from the back area of the garden. Next to be tackled was the...

With a couple of near disasters averted in recent times with drive failures or data corruption I decided to continue my research into a better backup solution. Now that we have BT Infinity at home that makes the possibility of decent upload speeds, 8MB in our case, I know that a cloud backup solution was now a reality. Much research later and a great recommendation...

Having decided that my next fitness challenge would be a Duathlon later in the year, I have started to do some focused training with my PT. Zoe so far has had me doing some work on my running and a couple of weeks ago we did a run-cycle-run session to show me how your legs get the wobbles! Since then I have worked on the treadmill to get my time for 5Km down from...