The matches so far...

Posted on Sat 09 February 2008 in general

I'm currently down south having spent Thursday night mingling with the great and the good of the London IT world. I two interviews on Friday, one physical and one phone one. I wasn't really taken with the Cambridge job but the virtual distro one seemed quite tempting. I have another …


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Mobile hacking and job hunting

Posted on Thu 07 February 2008 in geek

I'm taking a break from trying to get this Mac to talk to the Internet via my phone. Considering how easy it was to get the company VPN connection set-up I'm a little disappointed by the uncharacteristic kludge of mobile 'net. To be fair the Bluetooth pairing went very smoothly …


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Nostalgia

Posted on Wed 06 February 2008 in geek, general

I wondered down to visit my old colleagues from the Braddahead days for lunch today. Since the acquisition (and subsequent collapse of the acquiring company) they have set up shop as Streamscale and are working on upgrading and developing the CCTV system I started on over 5 years ago. They …


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Busy

Posted on Tue 05 February 2008 in general

Now Google Calender sends me helpful SMS messages for meetings I've started filling in more of my day to day events in it. My current schedule looks quite busy with a number of phone interviews and tradesmen quote visits scattered all over the week. I hardly miss my chirping little …


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Defeat by the Red Dragon

Posted on Mon 04 February 2008 in general • Tagged with rugby

Most of Saturday was taken up with the Rugby. We tried a new layout of the front room so we could fit everyone in front of the TV. We more or less succeeded although without the backing of the wall the Buddha bags do tend to achieve a rather flat …


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