Politics The issue of the day is the release of the Chilcot Report, which is the result of the Chilcot Inquiry, a public inquiry into Britain's involvement in the Iraq War between 2001 and 2009 (the year it was commissioned). It took ages (because of its size, and the fact that persons who are to be criticised in an official report have the right to respond prior to publication). It's damning. I could make a whole damn post about the current state of British politics but I would still end up missing so much out. Holy shit, I did not imagine so much could happen in two weeks. Life I moved to Hackney, for the time being (about a month). It's not so bad! I live right on the edge of working class (ex-) council estates and fancy schmancy gentrified housing developments. There is a lot of green space around here. I can't wait for the weekend. If all goes to plan, I'll be spending most of it lounging around in a park drinking very cold drinks and reading a book. Might fit in a badminton session as well. I need to be a bit more consistent with that. Work Work's going alright, I think. This week's been pretty tough because we grossly underestimated the magnitude of my current task when allocating time during planning (we use Scrum). These things happen. I can't let myself be bothered too much by setbacks but perhaps there are some things I could be doing to work a bit more efficiently. One thing I've considered is abstaining from social media for all but certain periods of the day. That's a tricky one, because sometimes I have to run unit tests - so there are little patches of time where I'm not really doing much - only a few minutes - but it really increases the temptation to switch windows to something immediately engaging. I've asked my friends and this seems to be the norm in software development. The problem is, I've also found that spending too much time idly browsing can drain your energy because of information overload! Wouldn't that make me more stressed, more tired and less effective at working? Why would I want that? Come to think of it, this would be a good idea for a post.