I wanna go home! Been sick for the past few days (and making and receiving poor-taste jokes about SARS), and missing my SO. Also, had to put some thought into iTouch's offer to relocate me to the UK permanently - and there's little I dislike more than decisions without enough information to make, and waiting for people to get back to me with information that'll affect my future. Then there's the interview I have when I get back to Cape Town. Wonderful.
UK Trip Weekend 1
22 Apr
Weekend: Friday head to Brighton (Hove-actually) until Saturday, then into London again for Sisters of Mercy concert (free tickets!), onto Slimelight. Recovered Sunday. Walked all over central London, watched shirtless skaters in Hyde Park... Having to try very hard not to fall totally in love with the city.
Arrived in London
14 Apr
I'm at iTouch UK now, having arrived yesterday. The weather is absolutely beautiful; nice and sunny the past two days. Had to waste three hours before I could check into my hotel, but supper at the Indian restaurant around the corner from the hotel made up for it.
More travels
09 Apr
Looks like I'm heading to the UK on Saturday for three weeks. I'll be helping out iTouch UK, doing network and system audits and some firewall work. The original work spec was for five weeks, so I should be kept busy. Since this is my third time over there on this sort of thing, at least I'll know my way around and where to go and what to do after work.
Renewed faith
08 Apr
Roundup, vellum, and spycyroll have renewed my faith in Python. The ease of setup and configuration was quite amazing (admittedly I'm not afraid of jumping into code), and getting everything looking pretty with my CSS was effortless. I've set up a public spycyroll for myself (and for people to see what I read).
Job Market
07 Apr
My first job came of me replying to an advertisement in the za.jobs newsgroup. The second required about three job interviews, with all three offering me jobs. The third hardly required an interview. What the next will require is as yet unknown, except that it's already taken a whole whack of my time and effort, and almost none on the part of the recruitment agents.
Wireless Loophole
04 Apr
On Sunday (30th March 2003), the article I worked on was finally aired. I provided technical expertise and research for the article "Wireless Loophole" for the Carte Blanche investigative journalism program. It investigated the security problems invovled in wireless technology.
Startin' up
04 Apr
Yes, I've finally started my blog. My goals are to make it easier for myself to remember what I've been up to and what I've wanted to do.
It also means I have to do less work on my web pages to keep people informed what I'm up to.
Expect information about open source, especially FreeBSD and Python, news about South Africa, and, of course, about myself.