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This week has been a bit flat. The weather is mostly awful, so I don’t much feel like riding my bike. I hurt my back exercising on Wednesday. And I have 5 weeks to get into shape for my ride across Wales.
This weeknote will be a short one. I can’t believe it’s Friday already…
This week I:
- Desparately tried to bring some very dry design workshops to life with the inclusion of visual content, only to find that Microsoft Teams isn’t very good at sharing digital whiteboards, yet:
So frustrating! #MicrosoftWhiteboard #MicrosoftTeams #OnTheRoadmap #Microsoft365
— Mark Wilson (@markwilsonit) May 18, 2021
(Workaround is to share my desktop directly and run the Microsoft Whiteboard app there) pic.twitter.com/xbB6D1LqKS
- Was reminded that annual reviews are a good opportunity to take stock on what’s happened in the last 12 months.
- Received my new UK (non-EU) driving licence:
My new driving licence arrived today. It looks like a membership card for a far right nationalist party ????? pic.twitter.com/w4QKGHx0yy
— Mark Wilson (@markwilsonit) May 19, 2021
- Escaped from my home office and spent a few hours working inside a coffee shop, for the first time in months.
- Learned that my social bubble is oh so echoey… when I stepped outside it I heard of people for whom the discomfort of taking a lateral flow test is some kind of hardship (Really? Spreading Covid is a lot worse, I’m sure!) and got called an idiot for not agreeing with conspiracy theories around government tracking of citizens.
- Felt the need to remind people that there are two NHS Apps:
- The NHS App (authenticated), which lets you access your own health record.
- The NHS Covid-19 app (anonymous), which is used for test and trace purposes.