22 June 2004
So, it seems the day has finally come. Even though I am in the process of packing it still hasn’t sunk in that I am actually going. I am guessing it won’t until I am actually on the plane.
Tomorrow is going to be a bit of a mission. At 2am I am driving down to Heathrow, where my plane then leaves at 7:55am on a short trip to Madrid. The next leg is Madrid to Miami, then finally the Miami to San Pedro Sula flight will touch down around 5pm local time. Hopefully I will then be met at the airport and whisked off to the jungle camp where I’ll start working in preparation for the first wave of volunteers coming in on Friday.
Apart from that I don’t really know what is going to happen. I’ll just have to wait an see.
21 June 2004
Last Saturday I missioned it down to London for only the morning. My brother has just finished his degree in Sports Product Design so I wanted to check out the design show. I also called into the Tate Modern to checkout the new installation in the turbine room, pretty funky! Here are some photos from the day.
17 June 2004
This is a wicked idea! BoardDesigner.com allows you to design your own snowboard. I have no idea how good the boards actually are and the designs in the gallery aren’t all that impressive, but even so how cool would it be to ride a board with your own design on?!
14 June 2004
Not quite as interesting as my previous post on quitting my job, but nevertheless some people may be interested in this small collection of classes for drawing graphs in PHP.
10 June 2004
So I handed in my resignation today. It’s amazing how free I feel now.
Friends I’ve talked to recently, and previous readers of this site, will know that on 23rd June I am flying to Honduras to work for 3-months on a scientific project in the rainforest. My official title is Computer Systems Manager for Operation Wallacea, where my role is to simply set up computer networks at the two Honduran sites, then maintain them for the duration of the project. When I originally volunteered to work for Op Wall I asked to be a jungle-assistant-type-person, but alas they saw my CV and decided I was more valuable working with the computers. Oh well. It is still going to be incredibly fun and interesting, and there will be a lot more to do out there as general logistics staff.
Anyway, back to the point of this post. Originally I had intended to return after the summer to work at Act e-learning, but following the recent acquisition of the "product division" by Vantage Technologies I have been unhappy with the work.
As luck would have it I was recently offered a job in London. I can’t say much about it at the moment, but as of 1st October I will be based in Windsor working on a very interesting, and big project, that will actually involve some elements from my Artificial Intelligence degree. If — sorry, when — we pull it off it will be a hell of an achievement!!
