New job, new house

So despite my best intentions, I’ve slacked off from blogging again….however I have good reason this time – I left my old job at EDS and have started at Optimation as a .net Solutions Architect. On top of that, we’ve finally bought ourselves a house – up on the Kapiti Coast at Paraparaumu Beach….

So the work (or lack of it) at EDS was getting to me, and I decided I needed a change. Well, Optimation certainly is different from EDS!! They’re a small (compared to EDS) New Zealand based company, with something like 50 people in the Wellington office (myself included). For the moment, it’s meant saying goodbye to working on a laptop (though thats about to change), goodbye to Vista and Office 2007 , and goodbye to using Orcas/VS 2008 at work – just as the beta 2 release is made available too!! Still, I needed the change, and I can get my VS2008 fix at home, hopefully. Plus theres a chance I can convince my new boss to let me use it at work too…