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So I’ve been back in Manchester about a month, it feels great to be back in a proper city. While Peterborough had it’s charms, I find I prefer to be in a city with a larger feel to it - just walking through Manchester there is a buzz which I knew I’d been missing, but without quite knowing what it was.

Studying rather than “working” is a larger change though. Even though I have a fraction of the hours allocated for study/classes as I was working last year, it feels like I’m now working with greater intensity. I sense I’m also likely to miss the satisfaction of working for a client and having a product to produce - even if I did no work this year, few would even notice, let alone worry. It’s not that I need constant reassurance, but there is something to be said for a client who is vocal about their opinion on the results they’re seeing for a project.

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Last week I was privileged to go to the ECM Awards, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London. It was comfortably the biggest, poshest party I’ve ever attended (Rob Brydon^w acted as compere). I also met loads of people I’d previously spoken to only on the phone. Had been going to post photos… but I really don’t have any decent ones.

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Today at the office, I unexpectedly received a bottle of Mumm^w in the post! This turned out to be from one of the London offices, given as thanks for the work on a (relatively minor!) project* I did a couple of weeks ago. Suppose it pays to try to provide good service on all things, as you never know what benefits there’ll be!

* I built (that is to say, I installed and configured the excellent Snitz) the forum component of the new Yours.co.uk website.

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I got the industrial placement at Emap for next year! Get in. Not sure it’s not bad form to go writing about it on the ‘net, so I’ll just say that it’s based in Peterborough, I ought to learn ASP.Net before I start, and I’m really excited about the whole thing!

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Yesterday I traveled to Peterborough in order to arrive in time for a job interview I had agreed to attend this morning with Emap^w, the publisher. I’m looking to get a one year industrial placement when I finish the second year of this current Computer Science degree (which, all being well, I will do in May, when I slay these exams).
The train travel and hotel were pretty unremarkable (I’d recommend the De Rosalia to others), so: the interview. I think it went well, I probably talked too much, but hopefully that’ll be just taken as nervousness. I think I could do the work and would enjoy it, the only think that puts me off (and this isn’t that big a deal), is Peterborough itself. I wandered around for a while yesterday, and got the impression that the town is incredibly dull. The streets are wide and pleasant, and there is actually quite a large commercial centre, but everything seemed so lifeless… Maybe I just saw it on an “off” day. Also, having just walked through Manchester is bound to have given me a bad comparison.
Next week I’m told I’ll get a get a call to let me know what Emap think (that is, whether or not they’re going to offer me a job!)

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