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.