Monday 22 June 2009

AELTC CEO --> IBM

I logged into my work email this morning and found a memo from Ian Ritchie, Chief Executive Officer of the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), saying how much he valued the relationship with IBM and thanking all those involved.
Now, I'm no technical expert on how Speed of Serve works or a data-entry wizard (brimming with "tennisability" [sic] ), so those words of thanks from Mr. Ritchie are most definitely aimed at those doing the real work, but seeing the CEO of AELTC take time to thank us all was a Great Thing ... it's always nice to be appreciated.

Today is the day...

... but first, a brief explanation of why the photos are larger in file size than you, and I, might want. It is down to me noticing that the JPEGS I was uploading were being re-compressed, and this was leaving them a little messy compared their pre-upload state. After a couple of tests I found that the integrity of a PNG was maintained after upload, no squishing of the file, and so the images now look as they do before being posted. Good.

Oh, and today is the day the tournament starts. We are ready.

I must sleep.