Work two weeks ago was different: I was at our Sales Training, as all new hires are required to be at some point - gave me many and varies insights into what Marketing claimed we could do. Also exposed me to the worst mutillations of basic probability theory I've ever had the misfortune to witness. When the word 'genocide' hit the news that week, ( Read more... )

So, time passes. Slowly, in a large yellow van ( Read more... )

So... that might have gone better. It seems there are in fact three lakes on the Science Park ( Read more... )

12:30, vicinity of the lake in the Science Park. See people there.

Firstly, I now have another computer. Seems to be a duel 2.6 GHz processor setup, with a gig of ram. I seem to recall my desktop at home being 800 MHz, with 256 megs of ram. I doubt I'll notice the difference much ( Read more... )

The weekend was decidendly fun. Met up with friends from all over, in London. Not to go clubbing or shopping, oh no - but to play Live Action Mornington Crescent ( Read more... )

Week the First has now elapsed. I've almost made progress, too ( Read more... )

Just got back from dinner with jmtkalcich - fondue done really, really well. Battered edam dunked in boiling oil for a while, then dipped in sweet sauce. Georgeous. Also about 10 other things I now want to replicate. Those involving olives possibly being silliest ( Read more... )

...Trying to get something set up to grab me a snapshot of the company's current codebase, and build it, overnight. Well, a subset thereof, since I'm only really going to be working on the backend for the forseable future ( Read more... )

So... I turned up for my first day at work. Shoes polished, shirt ironed, and bang on time. Not that this mattered, since the dress code appears to be 'anything including a shirt', and the woman inducting us was late (us being me and a summer student ( Read more... )