October seems to have run away and already I’m half way through November! Time flies when you are having no fun at all. Much fun is indeed guaranteed in the run up to Christmas, with the Brummies in full Christmas spirit and trying to run over as many cyclists as possible. The German Christmas market is also here and the city centre is full of wide eyed first year students and everyone who owns a pram/buggy seems to think it’s a wonderful idea to take it up and down New Street.

London Midland have also kept up their consistently terrible service, cancelling trains at random with the rather lame excuse of ’staff shortages’. It’s going to be fun getting to Shrewsbury for Christmas, I might just cycle there instead!

Looking around to see if there are any interesting groups in Birmingham or at least some sort of hobby/development/project I can work on as the usual day in day out handwriting recognition development gets rather dull after a while, plus it’s been a long time since I have done something that is rather nifty.  Any suggestions are welcome. On that note, I am loving jQuery which is bundled with ASP.NET MVC. It makes writing javascript painless/bearable and the bonus is, it’s clean! Web Forms is so 2002 and I for one will be glad to see the death of it, it’s post-backs and its ridiculously hideous html and JavaScript outputs. (along with other things.)

Ah well the weekend will again grace us with a break from the week and slip away just as quickly as it arrived. On the plus side, I will be seeing Eddie Izzard on Wednesday and I am looking forward to it.

Now off to find me something to do that isn’t work related that will keep me out of trouble for now!

P.S. VB.NET must die! (along with IE 6 and FTP)