Its February

I had a very busy January. We've been going through a bit of a re-organisation at work, and my shortish (4 months) venture into leading the customer services side of what we do has thankfully come to an end. Its not that I don't enjoy that type of work, it just isn't what I really wanted to be doing and what the business needed me to be be doing. However we had a hole to fill and I jumped in to do it. Meanwhile the technical side of my work which I really love had slipped and I am struggling to get back into what has been going on. 4 months in a tech company is a long time and a lot can happen.

In addition to that, the world seems to have suddenly realised that knowing where stuff comes from is very important and we've been inundated with massive new projects from a number of global brands so all in all superb news. Plus we're now well funded and ready to launch some very good new technology to our entire user base in the next few days. I'm very excited about the future, and the good we seem to be doing.

Outside work, things have been busy too. Having 4 children takes up lots of time. I seem to have been constantly having to leave early to go to parents evenings, award ceremonies and so on. I've even missed a few BUMMS meets due to this.

Over the past couple of years I've travelled a lot, and this year finally looks like I won't have to do so much. I've been to most countries I wanted to visit now, just a few more which I'd volunteer for if the opportunity arises.

The past week or so has seen me re-visiting some work I did about 6 months ago on helping plot the big organic cotton farming projects of the world on a map. I've even visited some of them, so its great seeing that gradually come to life. Over the next month I'll be doing more on that and soon the site will be officially published.



The above gives a rough idea of what it looks like, but it will also be searchable by crop and not just be for cotton.