A mixed post this evening. First of all, I have finally joined a new team at work. I’ll be working on the new Product Information Management (PIM) tool that John Lewis is going to be using to replace some fairly old in-house-written screens and things, and will introduce totally new functionality as well. It’s a third-party product with its own terminology, concepts and scripting language, so I have quite a lot to learn! But it’s very exciting and I know I’m going to be doing a fair bit of scripting, so I’ll be away from the mainframe for at least a while, which will make a nice change. I’ve some experience of some of the systems we’ll be connecting to, including the tables and data model for the existing product information system, which should prove useful.

I’ve just found out how to enable authentication on the RSS (actually, Atom) feeds I get from friends’ Livejournals, so I can read friends-only posts without having to go to Livejournal itself. This is a good thing, as I have a very nice RSS/Atom reader and it’s nice having everything syndicated to one place.

Finally, tomorrow evening I am travelling up to Bolton (where?) for a Sing for Pleasure conducting course. It should be fun and I’m hoping to improve both confidence and technique – in particular making more eye contact with the choir, and some more expressive gestures. As I’m travelling straight from work, I’d better pack my case now.

Finally, I’m going to see Spamlot on Monday. Tickets were booked through the Social Events office at work, and they got some kind of huge group booking. We’re in the second row of the stalls! Not bad for £15, I reckon. ;-)

And that reminds me, I need to get some nice emoticons and get WordPress to use those instead of its defaults, which are so ugly I’ve turned them off.

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