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Today I can confirm that, after a bit more of this lovely sunshine (hopefully), I will be starting a new job in August 2008.

I am joining my new employer Unisys to work on a number of redevelopment projects for one of its principal clients here in Brussels.

Wish me luck!

Recently, my old colleague Jason Jones shamelessly outed himself as a major duomo geek of sorts. “Last night was a good one,” claims Jonesy, “I was recalling how I used to struggle with EMM386 back in the old win 3.1 days - oh how I laughed…”. Indeed.

c-jump: doubtless selling like hotcakes

Well, in a year or two’s time, young Frances could go one better with c-jump, an exciting board game that, in the words of its maker, “helps children to learn basics of programming languages, such as C, C++ and Java”.

c-jump cleverly engages little users with its ice-cool skiing / snowboarding analogy. Why not check out c-jump now, and download a free demo that enables you to “understand interaction[s] between containers, iterators, and algorithms of the C++ Standard Library”.

Thanks to B3TA for the alert on this one. B3TA has a long and distinguished pedigree as a fine purveyor of utter crap, though sadly and all too often you’ll find it blocked by those corporate firewalls that lack a sense of humour.