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Back Dahn Sarf
Wow, it's been really rather a long time since I wrote a proper blog post. Why? Well, frankly I've been a bit busy. Sorry about that. Why so busy? Let me try to briefly explain…
Since I last wrote I've had the world's longest sore throat problem, I've moved from Manchester back to London, I've switched project at work, and I've started looking for a flat to buy. Where to start?
Two weeks ago now, I moved back to London having spent 7 months in Manchester. I'd been working on the development of BBC R&D's new lab there, and I'll be aiming to blog about that soon separately. But with the department moved into their new home it was time for me to return.
While I am glad to be back in London, it was sad to leave the people I've got to know in Manchester. My housemates and I went for a lovely meal and a few drinks, and I shall miss them all, while my colleagues and I had a goodbye lunch, some drinks, some more drinks, and then another beer. I was particularly pleased with my goodbye presents, a bottle of wine and a flat cap (see picture!). Apparently whippets can't be bought as leaving presents.
The Technology Cool Wall
Behold the BBC Research & Development Cool Wall! The latest project from myself and my colleague Tony to engage the wider BBC in technology and our work. We're rather pleased with it...
N.B. I ought to point out that this is only an internal thing, for our own discussion and amusement. Therefore if you can make out any products and where they lie on the wall, that is not to be taken as a BBC view, or endorsement of particular products over others! More to the point, virtually everything moves up and down the wall as there's very little we can all agree on...
Box + Pipe = Lab ?
It's been quite a while now since I started working on BBC R&D's North Lab. I've thoroughly failed to provide any updates, for which I apologise, but I think it falls under the category of "the more is happening, the less time you have to blog about it"! We've been ploughing ahead with our interim lab which will tide us over for the next two years or so on the existing BBC Manchester site, and planning for MediaCity:UK at Salford, which is our longer-term solution. My main focus was to be the former, but I've increasingly been pulled in to helping plan for MCUK; as you can probably imagine, it's a very large project requiring a lot of effort. But perhaps we're starting to work out just what it takes to build an R&D lab...
A Boring Blog Post
It's been quite a while now since I moved to Manchester... 6 weeks to be precise. (I had to go look at my calendar to work that out!) So what's happened? Well, everything and nothing really. Life continues much as normal, and though I've been desperately looking for a funny story to share with you, an anecdote of life up north that will make you smile, I've failed thus far. This can probably be seen as a guarantee that this post will be dull as dog poo, but I'll try to give you a brief update anyway.
Welcome T' Frozen North
Manchester greeted me yesterday with howling winds and a few brief showers. Not the best of starts weather-wise after the glorious sunshine that bathed London last week. However I'm now sitting in the Research & Development office of the BBC's New Broadcasting House in Manchester, getting settled in. How I came to be here was somewhat of an interesting story, and I explained a little here. But what I'm doing over the next 6 months will be even more interesting, and it's a journey I hope some of you might like to join me on. We have the task of establishing a new Research & Development lab in Manchester ahead of the BBC's move to Salford Quays. Setting up a new broadcast and media research lab isn't something that happens often, so just how we go about it will be full of creative and technical challenges.
It's Grim Oop North, isn't it?
