Licence
Simon Holywell by Simon Holywell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.simonholywell.com.
Me
My arrival back in the UK
I am now in a permanent role at Mosaic in Brighton and I am not looking for employment opportunities.
Just a short note to give you more detail on my return to the United Kingdom in December 2008. I will be landing just before Christmas and be ready for a new role with an exciting company [...]
Absence
I have been travelling around Europe for the last month or so and I have been completely out of reach. Unfortunately it looks as though the solution I had implemented for code highlighting has died during this time,[FIXED] but I have also noticed that it is stripping backslashes which is affecting the code – especially the [...]
Wedding
Marion and I were wed with a lovely ceremony on the 26th of July at the Brighton Pavilion in Brighton, England.
We are now travelling around western Europe and enjoying every moment of it even if we had to slum it in a Hilton in Innsbruck!
In other news I have now left my job at [...]
SQL SERVER
Say you have a development environment setup using SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and your customer has a SQL Server 2000 database accessible only via ODBC and you can only run a DB import via a script. How would you do it? Easy you might think just run msdbdump.exe on the command line, well this [...]
Engagement
I recently asked my girlfriend for her hand in marriage; she said yes! We are both very excited and have begun to make arrangements. No date has been set yet but we aim to walk down the aisle before the end of the year. As we are from different countries we have [...]
Moves
I have been a little slow to update my website of late due to a change of jobs and having recently moved house.
I am now working for WickedWeb (and have been since July), which is a web agency in the Kent countryside and with an office in London (Covent Garden). I am based in the [...]
London
I am now based in London and I am working for a company called underwired* based near Farringdon train station.
A few observations:
The trains are slow, late, expensive and overcrowded
Carrying a skateboard around town appears to be frowned upon
The roads are rubbish, but entertaining on a motorbike
They speak weirdly and sometimes smell funny
Comments