I was made redundant effective immediately on Monday... since then I've been searching for a new job working with Linux... its amazing how little training / junior jobs there are using Linux in Cardiff. I'll be heading back to London soon...

Someone on the #ubuntu-uk chatroom pointed me at the song "London Calling"... so just for fun I put it into youtube. And yes, there are many videos on youtube pointing at it.

I'm currently sitting in front of my laptop in the sitting room of the house in which I rent a room and I've been working here more than my desk in my bedroom (more light, closer to the kitchen. That and my desktop is about to get reinstalled with Fedora). My work? Applying for jobs, working on my CV, talking to people online. The Ubuntu-UK community has been really helpful in my search, on both the mailing list and IRC chatroom. I'll probably look at triaging lots of bugs when I get bored playing with fedora and my hardy-beta running laptop. (Yes, I know you're not supposed to run beta on something you're working on, but I put Hardy on my laptop before I was made redundant. Its seems rock-solid anyway...)

If you know any linux based jobs, around the London or Cardiff area, suitable for a trainee / junior guy like me, give me a shout. An older version of my CV is on this blog somewhere, if you go hunting (not linked to directly anywhere here, you'll have to guess the file name. Its in PDF format.)

A question for those who are running Hardy.. I'd like to get the stats on my laptop's battery, like how much charge its holding and how much through its useful life it is. (I ordered a new battery, on the saturday before I was made redundant, as this one is getting a little short lived... down to 30mins now...). Can someone who knows email me with details on how please? I'll add your email as comments to this blog (unless you tell me not to). My address is kirrus@kirrus.co.uk ..

I have a lot of photos to upload from my various walks around the area, but I've not got round to putting them up yet.

For anyone who wants to get hold of me over the weekend, call me on my mobile (in my CV). I'm going camping tomorrow (in a centre), a place without internet access, so I'm not going to be checking my emails! Hopefully we'll have good mobile signal...

I'll be back on Sunday afternoon/evening :)

I'm rambling again, so I'm going to leave this here...