Sometimes one gets lucky and gets to blind the classics that basically set the definition of the region’s style.

Ecstatic. Nailed a blind tasting: 2004 Nicolas Joly Savennières and I said “mid-2000 Savennières”.

And half-got a 1986 Lafite. I said 1980s. Got the Pauillac part straight away.

Madness without aircon, but quite pleasurable with ;)

Sent the interns home for the rest of the week because there’s an audit these next 2 days and even I’m staying well clear of the office…in fact a good 2/3 of us won’t be in.

So I have gym scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.

Meeting a word count limit in an essay is quite simply an exercise in information density…not about cutting information so much as choosing the shortest verb forms and sentence structures.

Oh indeed!

Perhaps not in title…or money…but our current COO's last day is in 3 weeks and I believe consensus is that I'm her natural successor, if only because there's absolutely no one else…

…and soon, no one left in the company…

…which will make for a very interesting leadership role.

Interviewer: Ah, I see you were COO for 6 months at $company. Tell me about the team you led.
> Me: Amazing. Purely function-oriented, and machine-like in precision and rigour. Very likeable once you got to know them though. Tireless. Never took a sick day.
> Interviewer: You mean you managed a bunch of Haskell scripts every day?
> Me: Yep.

Wow, 2 resignations in one month — COO included. I knew it was going to be turbulent but never thought it would come to this.

Ha. Haven’t heard that name in a while.

“Hey, can you translate this French legal document for me? Google Translate isn’t working.”

No…