On the 15th December 2011, after 10 years and 11 months, my employment with Colt Technology Services (COLT Telecom as was) came to an end. The term used was terminated by reason of redundancy, which translated means “Outsourced to India“. I must admit it didn’t come as a total surprise. When I came back from [...]

So today I headed into London for a meeting with my boss and HR to discuss the “Return to work plan” that had been drawn up. It felt strange driving to the train station after 18 months of not doing so, but I wasn’t surprised to find it hadn’t changed much. Sure they are knocking [...]

Wow it was hard getting up on Monday morning. I mean I knew it was going to be, but when the alarm clock went off I just wasn”t expecting it. It was almost as if the alarm clock was mocking me. I got to the train station and had forgotten to renew my ticket over [...]

I have been using PDFPen from Smile on my mac as part of my workflow for a while now and it’s a fantastic product. I use it mainly when I scan in documents either to simply carry out OCR before filing in DevonThink or to make amendments to PDF documents I have been sent. However [...]

05:00 and I am wide awake, could it be the excitement of returning to work? I don’t think so! Something to do with the bl**dy car alarm that has gone off every hour since 02:00, not really! The overwhelming want to watch the sun come up? In Basingstoke, are you kidding me? If I analyse [...]

So this weekend I have been the Duty Manager and therefore tied to the house, however looking on the positive side, I have a filthy cold so it probably hasn’t done any harm staying in the warm. Work has been pretty manic over the last couple of weeks and there were a few more changes [...]