First Post

This is the first weblog I have created. At the moment, I do not know what else to write, but no doubt will find something later

Edinburgh - April to June 2006

I had a telephone call from an agent in London, about a contract in Edinburgh. The contract was at Standard Life Assurance to help with the demutualisation of the company. The job involved re-designing their actuarial reporting to fit the new de-mutualised organisation.

Here I met another SAS contractor called Phil, who had learnt his SAS in the RAF. What he knows about mainframes beats what I know about accounting.

Also while I was in Edinburgh, a lovely city, I met up with a guy I had worked with at Lombard North Central between 1987 and 1994. Andy was the same old cynical individual, always denigrating himself, but still able to make spreadsheets do some pretty interesting things.

Yorkshire Bank - summary

Finally, after nine months, YB have at last worked out how to resolve the problem of relocating the server. Leave it in Leeds, because they cannot afford to buy a new server to copy everything to and make the old (new) one redundant. They will send someone down from Glasgow to Leeds once a month (or so) to make sure that the server is doing everything it should.