fluffybrain

Just a quick update on the job situation.

- Accenture hate me.
- I decided SchlumbergerSema weren’t good enough for me.
- I’m going to work for IBM in the Notes and Tools group at Hursley.

I start at IBM on the 3rd of November, after our epic Japan trip. It should be fun – my new manager seems like a nice bloke (he made a real effort to allow me to adjust my starting date), and though I haven’t interacted with the rest of the group yet, I suspect they’ll be nice enough.

That and lots of other IC peeps are coming to IBM as well, so that should be fun.

Unfortunately Dave didn’t make it in – foolish IBM recruiters don’t know a good thing when they see one. Still, it looks as if he’ll be working in department as a research assistant. The work sounds interesting, though it’s way beyond me…

Vicky’s birthday party was good fun – it was good to see all the crew from down south again, even if it was in Durham. Durham is lovely by the way, and I heartily recommend Trevelyan college – the bar’s good and genuinely nice people go there, which is wonderful.

I popped across to Oxford to visit Xi this weekend, which was nice and relaxing. We walked around Magdalen College on Sunday, which almost persuaded me to take a PhD there, but I’m nowhere near clever enough for that.

In other news, nothing much happened today except me rolling out of bed in the afternoon and berating myself for not doing any work all day. I’m going to lug my notes to the uni library tomorrow so I can concentrate.

I’ve somehow managed to damage my left knee sufficiently so that it’s extremely painful to sit cross-legged or kneel down. I’ll see if it fixes itself over the next couple of days – if not I’ll go and pick on some poor unsuspecting doctor at the medical centre.

I’m popping up to Durham on for the weekend with Phil to attend Vicky’s 21st b’day party. Promises to be a good time, and should hopefully give me enough time to hack out some coursework on the train.

The individual project’s going better than before; I now have moving elements and groups implemented, and tomorrow’s put aside for developing a sensible “the user’s doing this now” detection system.

In other news, we had the presentation for the Entrepreneurship Challenge today, which went OK but not wonderfully. We all dressed up in suits – it was scary to see everyone looking so smart!

I may at some point get hold of some pictures of our Paris trip, but don’t hold your breath.