Well, for the last 8 and a bit months I've been living in Seattle (Fremont for those who know Seattle) and working in the Project Server team at Microsoft in Redmond.
It has been bit of a big change, I went from being an Application Development Consultant, immersed in the technical minutiae of a dozen different products and living a lot of my life in Visual Studio to my current life of focusing on getting the next version of Product Server out. I'm not going to pretend that it hasn't been hard making the transition - it has - but it's also been pretty interesting seeing how MS develops software; and how different the process seems to be from other companies I've worked for and with...so I guess I'll be writing about that here (not sure how much I can get away with telling everyone but well...we'll see).
I suppose I can also talk about the differences between here and the UK; which are different to those I expected...also about the things I miss from back home (though just discovered I can buy Salad Cream on Amazon...yay!).
Let's see what else can I put here, well I am slowly getting back into development (discovery: it's hard to write code when you have no specific endpoint in mind!), reading a whole lot of stuff which I'll attempt to review here...and just living a pretty normal (and grammatically poor) life.
Well, let's see what happens...one of my first tasks is going to be dasBlogizing my old mostlylucid.co.uk posts and article(s)...hopefully I put the old DB somewhere safe and can actually do this!