22 years… wow time flies. Some days it seems like only yesterday that I started working at Anglo Gibraltar Insurance. Several mergers and acquisitions later I’m leaving AXA and starting a new stage in life.
I’ll spare the fine details but in a nutshell after our company was recently purchased it was decided to close the IT operation in London by the end of 2012. My last day with the company is Oct 31st, and then I’ll be enjoying the first break from school or work since I was about 15. The offer the company has given me is very generous and will enable myself to enjoy this period ahead.
Despite Alicia’s horror that I may be underfoot at home I plan to be busy both in and out of the house. During this time I’m going to continue some of the projects I am involved with including the unLondon/unLab and the Downtown London WiFi project. In the new year I plan to step back a bit and decide what I want to do next career wise and in life. 20+ years is a long time to do anything and it may be time for a change. Now that I’ve made the decision I’m so calm with the idea and looking forward to it.
Taken from http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/05/statement-by-apples-board-of-directors/
Do not therefore consider this life as an object of any moment. Look back on the immense gulf of time already past; and forwards, to that infinite duration yet to come, and you will find how trifling the difference is between a life of three days and of three ages.
Let us then employ properly this moment of time allotted us by fate, and leave the world contentedly; like a ripe olive dropping from its stalk, speaking well of the soil that produced it, and of the tree that bore it.
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Social media is playing a larger role for candidates to get their message out. Twitter in particular has allowed candidates to engage in conversation with the community about why they are running and what policies they support.
As keeping a dialog going on Twitter can be time consuming some candidates during an election will have their staff tweet for them. For things such as press releases, event notifications etc, this is fine. However to keep transparency, candidates should put on their twitter profile is they alone and/or staff will post to twitter using the candidates account. It is also recommend that if it is staff tweeting that should be clear in the tweet by posting their initials at the end of the of the message.
I will be requesting this information from the candidates running in London and area ridings who I know have a twitter account. As I get the information back I’ll update the results on this spreadsheet.
Thanks all.
One of the major goals for the UnLab was to build a podcasting studio. Now that it is done I’ve caught the podcasting bug. I’ve been a fan and regular listener of Leo Laporte’s TWIT podcasting network for a few years and I’ve always wondered what it would be like to do.
Well now I have that opportunity. Fellow UnLab member Sean Quigley and myself have just finished the first episode of a new podcast called This Week In London Tweets or TWILT for short. In this podcast we touch on the topics that London twitter users are talking about. This first show was more on the political side and I expect a good portion of shows will be along that those lines, but if a tech or arts story comes around that gets the London twitter sphere buzzing then we will cover it.
You can check out the show blog at http://twiltpodcast.wordpress.com/ which will have links to episodes. Both Sean and I hope you enjoy it.
October 28, 2011 10:26 pm | 
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