Archive for March, 2007

Pink House

Posted by alex on March 22nd, 2007

Hello and as my past self has already predicted I’m writing from my new room in south London. I would describe the place a bit but since I’m the only one reading this suffice to say that it’s pink and it’s quite nice. Bad things about it are the constant noise of traffic, the lack of curtains, the lack of decent shower in the bathroom and the dodgy wall socket which sparks and makes strange noises. Hopefully though I can get most of those sorted at some point.

Not much else to report at the moment. The job is going ok still mostly staring confusedly at code all day. I predict that my next post will be either existential or ranting in nature.

New Job

Posted by alex on March 6th, 2007

Well I’m finally employed. About time too. The company’s called Markit and they sell pricing information of financial instruments called derivatives. I’ll let you know when I’ve figured out what that means. I’ve been working a week now and not really go up to much. It seems 90% of the time I’m just staring confusedly at the company’s systems amazed at how much I don’t know. Still I’ve been assigned a few simple tasks so far and been able to do some useful work already which is good.

Next thing is finding a place to live. Somebody told me today that life is full of compromises. I think that’s defintely true when it comes to finding somewhere to live. It’s a constraint satisfaction problem between size, location, quality, area, housemates and price. All the places I’ve seen so far have been severly wanting in at least two of those categories.

You may have noticed the vast gaps in time between my blog posts. Suprisingly this isn’t because I’ve got nothing to blog about but I just seem to have no time to make posts. Extrapolating my current post frequency I expect I will be making my next post from my nice comfortable new room somewhere in south London. Til then…