Whooh! Long time no blog ... again.
Thought I'd better do something and, with the Gen'05
tour about to land at Birmingham on February 10th, now seems like a good time.
Looks like this is going to be a great day - all sorts of pods and talks - Imagine Cup, Hurricane, theSpoke, MSP Programme, MSDNAA, Student Options, XBox, Media Centre and even better there'll be Microsoft people here to talk to about your career, internships with Microsoft and how to get free or cheap Microsoft software. Oh, and of course the obligatory giveaways - there's an XBox and a Media Centre up for grabs.
Hmmm - must thank the F1 guys for setting our campus IS people on to me - F1 contacted the University about setting up for network connections for Gen'05 and named me as the 'sponsor' !! my first thought was 'How much is this going to cost me?', But all they wanted was someone to vouch that it was a legitimate event :) Oh, F1 are the company who set up and support the IT at external events for Microsoft - they did all the IT at the UK Imagine Cup finals last year. Well, Emily is really busy getting things organised for this and also setting up transport to get students from Aston and Wolverhampton here on the day.
The MSPs here are also having an XBox Party on Tuesday and Wednesday 8th/9th Feb, and the CETADL team are meeting up with Mark, Andy, Caroline and Andrew on Wednesday the 9th - so all in all a busy Microsoft week on campus.
We're planning a trip to The Jamhouse in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter on the evening of the 9th - the music that evening is provided by Carl Stanley's Funky Family - described as 'Soul and Funk with plenty of SAX'
I'll post pics of the Xbox party, Gen'05 event and hopefully the visit to the Jamhouse later next week. Well, sometime.
OK - so now I've watched the first two episodes of '24 - Day 4' - I'd better watch the prequel - this is NOT doing my blood pressure any good at all...