Well I spent Thursday back at Imperial College (Union). It was cool to be back. Slightly odd as each year I go back I recognise fewer and fewer people. I did have a quick chat to Kristine from the office though.
I have to say I wasn’t expecting much from a Xyratex point of view as I went last year and spent most of my time explaining what Xyratex does to people whilst thinking ‘I wouldn’t employ you if it was my choice’. This year I spent most of my time explaing what Xyratex does to people who seemed quite promising. It was much better than Bath careers fair (sorry Nia) where we had a couple of good people. At Imperial it was probably in double figures. This was all largely helped by being at the end of the UDH so we got fewer people visiting but those that did make it were the motivated ones.
Whilst on the subject of Imperial it is possibly time to say that I do miss Dramsoc. Not university as such but Dramsoc and the stuff related to it. I get very few chances to do anything big like Freshers week now, the big society thing and bar nights were good too. Having said that I’m determined not to say ‘I wish I was back at university’ it’s very much a one opportunity ends and another begins, sort of. I still get urges to march up to the staff in clubs and demand to do some decent lighting rather than the crap they have. I’ve also spent the weekend looking a various techy website and discovered how simple DMX appears to be compared to other serial busses.
Finally, there has been much argument about whether Linux is ready for the desktop or not and usability as a whole. I got a phone call from Andrea wanting to check her email so I told her the details to log onto my Ubuntu system (so a Gnome desktop). Now Andrea isn’t the most computer literate person, but a while later I phoned back and she said that everything was in an obvious place, that it was easy to use and that she ‘prefered it to Windows’.
