What a nice reset this cottage was. Feeling so refreshed.

Resting for a couple days in Izu

I'm less stressed now that our big move project is complete and the client is happy with our work.

Watching "Dark Matter" on Apple TV. Intriguing.

Trying to rest after having to work during GW.

Final push for a client office move go-live!

Obon's over. Back to work！

Well recovered from last weekend's hike to Mt Myojo in Hakone. Check out the blog on it:

Recovering from yesterday's hike up Mts Sengen and Takanosu in Hakone. Chisuji Falls was the highlight! 🥾 Check out the blog about it:

Recovering from last weekend's hike up Mt Kintoki in Hakone. Here's a blog post about the trip:

Setting off for Mt Kintoki trailhead from Odawara on the bus. Some idiot is wearing a LOT of perfume. Hope he likes bees.

Continuing to explore the hiking trails around Kamakura, this time one of the "kirodoshi" mountain passes.

Doing civic duty this AM on the can trash separation brigade.

Blogged about my 12km trek yesterday on the Kamakura Ten'en Hiking Trail. Check it out!

Recovering from 12km hike from Kounandai to Kamakura

Researching anti-black-fly (Japan "buyo") strategies. They leave a nasty bite mark!

Cleaned up some old Victorinox Pocket Knives today.

Coming off an exhausted state from finishing a big web authoring project. My brain is fuzzed.

Wrote a little blog post on our trip to Mt. Akagi on 3rd June. Check it out! 🌋

Still recovering from Mt. Akagi in Gunma; trek was 90 min up a steep rocky trail to a windy/cold summit. Beautiful weather and views, and the guide Ms. Okubo was a true pro.

Using "nushell" as my login shell lately. Pretty nifty.

Heading up Mt Akagi today in Gunma. Expecting slippery mud.

Project push, getting those pages built!

Updating fathom analytics script from the custom one to the generic one, per their instructions.

Heavy rain today; really makes walking the dog a pain.

Created a simple script in nushell to add words to the dictionary file my password generator uses

For password security, size matters. Go longer, not more complex.

Building internal request system for my co.

Organized info for internal audit of ISO 27001 and joined Technofer

Made screencast about MS Planner Gantt via PowerApp

Simplifying by decommissioning various systems

Feeling grateful to Kovid Goyal for his KiTTY terminal app. Great software.

Came to agreement about internal audit for my co.

Wrote a little nushell script to post statuses from CLI

Testing via API

Bought a new lightweight wind shell, since my old one's 10 years old and getting rotten.

Testing nushell scripting with graphql api.

Scheduled the hospital visits for getting followup tetanus shots for the dog bite.

Finished a long meeting with an ISO consultant, and I'm pleased to say it appears we're on the right track.

Experimenting with

Paring down monthly or annual subscriptions.

Got bit by a friend’s dog (my fault for trying to pet). Ok but at the ER waiting on a tetanus shot.

Wranglin' Exchange transport rules

Finished cleaning up years of detritus in AWS.

Improved security for some getJSON statements that pull from a REST i/f.

Migrated most of our sites to Deno Deploy.

Getting close to getting our AWS tidied up. If you host a site and its logs on AWS S3, be sure to make a lifecycle rule on the log bucket, to delete old log objects. Otherwise, wow, BAJILLIONS of logs!

Currently awaiting deletion of nearly 40000 AWS S3 glacier archives using aws glacier delete-archive. Scripted of course.

Finally nailed a weird problem. Got my Planner plan to show up inside the app in Teams. You just have to add it to a Teams channel.

Set up Viva Goals today

Setup SharePoint folder as a source for Viva Learning.

Struggling with my Japan tax forms. It's great that you can pull all the medical expense data from your mynumber portal, but it's less clear how you enter the insurance rebate.

Writing out our change management standard and procedure, based on a long standing flow diagram.

Consolidated our ISO 27001 project Sharepoint, into the one we're using in production for our ISMS. Simpler and less maintenance.

Working on Sharepoint list for our ISO 27001 statement of applicability.

Tidying all the things in Teams & Sharepoint

Finished big status meeting on our ISO ISMS implementation.

Finished the draft for our ISO ISMS manual, the regulations on how we’ll run it.

Reading about CMMI maturity models. I get the concept, but it seems maybe over-complicated for a small company.

Manually backed up Sharepoint list view and form customizations to json files in a git repo.

Stewarding a planned power outage this weekend.

Struggled to get SharePoint Content Types working, but finally succeeded.

Requested listing of my now page on nownownow and it's already live: Thanks Derek Sivers. :)

Enabled Google Advanced Protection Program for my personal account, linking 2 Yubikeys.

Starting to use and learning about , initially in one project.

Added an M365 sensitivity label for commercial papers.

Looking into decentraleyes important browser extension.

Building out eSolia's help site in Lume SSG. Works well.

Learning about creating with Adobe Leonardo. Nifty.

Getting closer to launching our SharePoint site built to be our ISO 27001 ISMS. It's just the skeleton, still got a long way to go.

Reading up on and its implications for data transfer.

Created a MS Teams team to hold group quizzes and questionnaires made in Forms.

Checking out the Deno-based SSG "Lume", considering for a couple doc sites.

Sussing the ins and outs of Word mail merge

Set a typescript wrapper as the entry point for my Hugo sites on Deno Deploy, so that I can set security headers.

Successfully deployed a Hugo site to Deno Deploy.

Today's about SharePoint Content Types.

Really getting into the guts of SharePoint document library settings, how check-in, check-out, versioning and other details work and impact each other.

Learning SharePoint document library settings while designing our workflow for formal documents.

Enabled the FIDO2 hardware key authentication method in M365 Entra admin, so users can add their yubikeys for login.

Designed a very simple Power Automate flow to track peoples' acknowledgements of policies.

Migrated uptime monitor from Apex Ping to Upptime because I need something fast.

Migrating apex up to Deno Deploy because of up's unceremonious closedown.

Redeploying static sites to Deno Deploy - so fast.

Mulled this a long time, and decided to put my photos in OneDrive. A reasonable yearly price for all 5 family members to get Office apps and 1T storage.

Setting up M365 Purview "sensitivity labels", for info classification like "internal only" or "confidential".

Published our statement of executive support for ISO 27001 ISMS and our high level security policy.

Trying Windows 365, pretty slick deployment.

Well on our way implementing our ISO 27001 ISMS in Sharepoint.

Celebrating being mostly migrated to MS 365!

Full blast migrating all the things from Google to MS365.

Bulk downloaded Google Groups email in mbox format for later import

Used PowerAutomate to connect MS Forms to a Sharepoint List.

Reviewing ISO 27001 implementation requirements vs options.

Used PowerShell to set up central shared libraries in MS365 for images and templates. Per user app settings begone!

Sorting out client job folder sharing SOP from OneDrive.

Cleaning out years of file detritus as I migrate to MS 365.

Implemented client codes list in the MS365 Terms Store and labeled all our list items, then removed folders.

Migrated lots of my firm’s work tasks to Sharepoint Lists.

Struggled with this: you need to be following a Sharepoint site from its Home, to have its Lists available for copying. Urgh.

Worked out how we'll use Sharepoint Lists for our team tasks, without compromising security or increasing admin burden.

Worked on Teams task list defaults, exposing groups to Outlook with Powershell commands.

Enhanced the e-sign capability of our ERP, by using "/documents/combined?certificate=true" when pulling down the signed document via the Docusign API. This attaches the manifest to the signed PDF.

Reports and invoicing

Working on CSV uploader script security tightening and testing.

Blogged about my MS365 Trial Trials

Finally managed to extract our production domain out of an un-managed MS365 tenant, which got put there because someone made a trial. We could not add the domain to our main tenant, until we removed it from the test one. I need a drink.

Struggling to be able to publish MS365 group calendars

Working on Power Automate flow to alert assignee in Sharepoint list, on assignment.

Working on ISO 27001 prep and migration to MS 365

Troubleshooting a CSV loader script into an ERP order system.

Examining MS Teams and Sharepoint features, planning migration and considering ISMS in sharepoint.

Testing status.lol cross-posting

Testing Microsoft Lists task tracking

Testing out a system for managing an ISO 27001 ISMS.

Keeping busy hiking and walking with our dog Maru the Shiba.