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Oslo outing

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

39Work took me to Oslo this week. Having booked the hotel at the last minute the only remaining option at the IBM rate was the Quality Hotel Mastemyr. This turned out to be some 6 miles south of Oslo so I decided to hire a car. Fortunately, Hertz decided to give me a nice Toyota Rav 4×4 as, in my attempt to find the hotel, I visited some very snowy back streets. Eventually I admitted defeat and asked at a service station only to discover I was just one mile from where I wanted to be. Having looked at the map since I still can’t work out where I went.

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Chartered Engineer at last

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Finally received a letter from the Engineering Council today confirming my registration as a Chartered Engineer. Now I just have to work out where the letters CEng fit in between MEng(Hons) MBCS CITP MIEE! I can’t imagine registration will make any difference to my life (other than having to fork out the annual registration fee) but somehow it still feels like a significant milestone in my life.