Unemployed...

... or as a thesp would say; 'resting between contracts'

Unfortunate that the project I was working on in Glasgow was canned. Ah well. That's life (for contractors). I had 2 interviews on Monday and 3 on Tuesday and 4 firm offers on Friday; following a lot of horse trading I've rejected two, and accepted one, pending background checks (it's for another Investment Bank).

I'm holding the last in backup pending disasters around the credit score/ criminal record front. Not that I have a criminal record or CCJs, but, don't let go of your options until the ink is drying on the contract, is what I always say.

This weekend has been filled with flying (circuit bashing to maintain currency), building a tree house for the small one, and strimming. Oh, and a cassoulet with confitted pheasant. Mmm.

Oh, and per last month's post: I now have an ESXi box with a six core Phenom and its GREAT!

A Good Weekend

Eh, its been a while.

A good weekend was had by this Young Turk.
Saturday turned up at Tattenhill and went for an hour's refresher with an instructor in a PA28, then 1hr 20 with the examiner. Passed. W00t!!1!. So now got me wings back for another 2 years.

Sunday, sailing! Went for a jolly zoom around in a Laser Pico, sorta almost small ennought to be classed a bath toy, but nonetheless good clean fun. Ahem.

What else is new? Well, still in Glasgow, still working hard, contract coming up for renewal so who knows what next, the markets still pretty depressed rate-wise so I'd like an extension... let us see.

Still no further with NTP, various issues with servers and dev tool livences are being worked out as I type, so hopefully by next week I will be the proud owner of a 6 core Phenom running 4 VMs under ESXi. Watch this space.

And so it goes....

...from dealing with ultra complex high availability ESX issues, to....
a colicking horse on a Saturday night, ending with the vet administering half a bucket (thats like, a BIG bucket!) of Epsom salts and electrolytes, via nasal tube, at 9pm.

NOW I need a glass of wine LOL!

Oh, added a few photos from Glasgae... see Picasa...

(Look! It really DOES look like a wing!)

Glasgow

Well, completed my 1st week in Glasgow. Added a few pics onto the slideshow.

Hi to Robert of Washing Art Installation fame :)

Overheard by the water cooler

Overheard by the water cooler:

"How can a programmer fail to understand arrays?
Its like a baker not getting yeast, or a politician not understanding lies."

:)

Three days to go and I'm outta here! W00t!!1!

No. 4 of 627 idiotic things to do at an airport

I mean, FFS.

"Women try to take body on plane at Liverpool airport"

Full story

Amazing.

Clueless Coders

Seen in some source code recently:

// I copyed this bit form the example
// Dont know what it dose I think It will break the app on all events