Despite the extra half-hour traveling, I’m really enjoying the new location in London I’m spending most of my days in. I’ve come to know Canary Wharf and West London pretty well–but now I get to learn my way around the City a bit more.

Here’s a picture I took with my phone the other day. This was taken a about 100ft from the new office.

Most of my work is on the south side of London Bridge, but I frequently go into the City to visit the other office.

No showers, so the lunch time run is not on, but a very nice place to work.

So today I started my new contract with a consulting firm. Funny thing, first days. You try not to seem a nuisance when all of your PC accounts and privileges are set up. It seems like a nice place and I’m looking forward to working on the cool project I’m assigned to.

The offices are located near London Bridge, close to the London Dungeon. It’s a nice area of London I haven’t really visited much.

I was doing really well with posting more regularly, but I got bogged down in loads of work recently.

Learning WPF is really a lot of fun. I’ve done the Microsoft learning courses and have started through Charles Petzold’s gigantic book on the subject (called Applications=Code+Markup). I’m really convinced that WPF will make a huge change in the way we use software in the future.

I’ve also taken on a contract (starting next week). I’ll be working for a London consultancy building MIS applications for another investment bank. I’ll give more details later (just in case it falls through at the last second).

I wasn’t looking for a project, but a friend called me about this one and it really took my fancy. I must be getting geekier–I wasn’t interested until he told me about the technologies they’re using. My CV wasn’t even up to date. I’m very excited about it.

So, in addition to the offshoring projects–I’m back into London to do some coding myself.