February
2010

• Business Processes understood and basic flow completed in Visio 2007 - real progress :-) and somewhat slowly to Paris, passing the scene of the accident - very sad.
• Back to Brussels and snow but fortunately avoided the effects of the terrible train crash near my friends in Halle. A busy time chasing payment for my agent & me, fighting insects who came in from the cold and organizing travel to Paris and beyond for a holiday.
• To London for more audit and VAT papers - admin will never cease. Nonetheless had a great evening at the club, saw ‘The Single Man’ with a friend and her mother as well as seeing another old friend who has recovered well from chemotherapy - good news.
• ‘Many ways to skin a cat’ - this English phrase says it all concerning several  individual solutions for a business activity - document the best if you can!
• Updated Jorge Martinez’s page, CHL clients page and Stephen Helms’ Projects page.
• Paris for the weekend, punctuated by travel troubles on the RER.
• Dinner with an ex-colleague in Brussels’ Galérie des Princes - excellent magret de canard and wine from a Bordeaux Chateau.
• Identified more issues with Billing and Dispatch so the document grows to 390 pages and a 12 Mb PDF for review.
• Business Processes for Claims against Air Route charges - somewhat difficult but a challenge.

January
2010

• Installed Office 2010 Beta on the backup laptop. Welcome back to the File menu with the old functions + Help and About - a stunning ‘advance’.
• Updated the CVs of four associates: Jorge Martinez, Peter Murley, Steve Pheasant and Duncan Williamson, see CVs. Updated software Tools used page.
• Tired at the end of the week and pleased to have my partner travel to Brussels for the weekend. Still, we visited Maasmechelen to see the renowned shopping village and abandoned mine shafts.
• More experiments with the latest issue of SharePoint 2010 but still waiting for the production version. Hence a project review and more content preparation in Office 2007.
• A busy weekend but also managed to have a dental checkup and dinner with friends including Richard Alberg who is justifiably proud of his new online outplacement business - myworksearch.
• To London for the month end, quarter end and VAT, year end and Audit 2009 as well as developing the Audit report - this with Sage and Office 2003 - so on more familiar ground.
• A week with a steep learning curve identifying the issues and inconsistencies between the old and the old with a new coat of paint. Creating / modifying flight plans more interesting than system changes.
• PC at work converted to Windows 7, Office 2007 and Visio 2007 along with Acrobat Professional 9 and access to test and backup systems.
• Shopping to get the apartment in shape & administration to prepare for the 2009 Audit of CHL.
• To Brussels on the 3rd January to restart work on the air route charges system - always tough to restart following a good break.